[December 01, 2008] Mother hopes Empty Stocking Fund will help her children Tweet (Sun Journal (New Bern, NC) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 1--A young mother needs help for her children this Christmas. The father is receiving unemployment assistance, but he uses all the money he can get for drugs. The mother desperately needs assistance in trying to have a cheery home and gifts for their two children. She is trying to hold the family together as best she can. Another family is also suffering because of a father's dereliction. The father recently walked out. The mother is trying to get some normalcy back into the lives of their three children. She is unable to locate the father and is depending on help from the Empty Stocking Fund to help with gifts for her family. The children do not understand why daddy isn't home anymore. The Empty Stocking Fund is a project of the Salvation Army and the Sun Journal. Donations can be made at the Salvation Army's main office at 1402 Rhem Ave. in New Bern from 9 a.m. to noon or from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday or at the Sun Journal at 3200 Wellons Blvd. in New Bern from 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Checks made out to the Empty Stocking Fund can be mailed to the Salvation Army at P.O. Drawer E, New Bern, N.C. 28563 or to the Sun Journal at P.O. Box 1149, New Bern N.C. 28563. For more information, call the Salvation Army at 637-2277. Donations reported Monday: * $100, Bob and Pat Bartram * $50, Susan West Tripp * $500, Trade Construction Company * $100, Anonymous Total monetary donations to date: $750. To see more of the Sun Journal or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.newbernsunjournal.com/. Copyright (c) 2008, Sun Journal, New Bern, N.C. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]