Red Kettle Campaign donations lagging
The familiar ding-a-ling heard as shoppers approach stores to scoop up gifts for family and friends can be heard at select retailers in the county, but donations in the accompanying red kettles are not as plentiful this year.
Major Darlene Means of the Butler Salvation Army said eight kettles are placed outside store doors this year in Butler, Butler Township and Cranberry Township.
The 2022 goal is $90,000, but the pace of cash in the kettles is not keeping pace with completing that goal, she said.
“It’s probably the economy,” Means said. “With the price of gasoline and utilities and food prices going up, that’s the only thing we can think of.”
Last year, the Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign raised $85,000.
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