DECATUR — The annual Care and Share event could use more volunteers and more donations, organizers say.
Volunteers Shamaria Gullens and Martha King sort Toys for Tots donations for the Christmas Care and Share at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Decatur on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023.
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GALLERY: Decatur Salvation Army food basket preparation
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JIM BOWLING, HERALD & REVIEW Volunteers help distribute food baskets to those in need at the Salvation Army Friday December 21, 2018. ADM Cares contributed $25,000 to the Salvation Army that helped provide a 1,000 food boxes for the distribution.
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An assembly line of volunteers transferred the various food items from pallets to more than 1,000 baskets.
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JIM BOWLING, HERALD & REVIEW Volunteers help distribute food baskets to those in need at the Salvation Army Friday December 21, 2018. ADM Cares contributed $25,000 to the Salvation Army that helped provide a 1,000 food boxes for the distribution.
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JIM BOWLING, HERALD & REVIEW Volunteers help distribute food baskets to those in need at the Salvation Army Friday December 21, 2018. ADM Cares contributed $25,000 to the Salvation Army that helped provide a 1,000 food boxes for the distribution.
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JIM BOWLING, HERALD & REVIEW Volunteers help distribute food baskets to those in need at the Salvation Army Friday December 21, 2018. ADM Cares contributed $25,000 to the Salvation Army that helped provide a 1,000 food boxes for the distribution.
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JIM BOWLING, HERALD & REVIEW Volunteers help distribute food baskets to those in need at the Salvation Army Friday December 21, 2018. ADM Cares contributed $25,000 to the Salvation Army that helped provide a 1,000 food boxes for the distribution.
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Equipment is used at the Salvation Army in Decatur on Friday, where food baskets were distributed for the holidays. "It's just so great that volunteers from the community can come together and bless families with the abundance that we have," said Gregory Voeller, commanding officer of the Salvation Army.
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Volunteers from Archer Daniels Midland Co. place items in basket that were being distributed by the Decatur Salvation Army to local families in need. ADM Cares, the company's social investment and giving program, gave $25,000 to the effort.
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JIM BOWLING, HERALD & REVIEW Volunteers help distribute food baskets to those in need at the Salvation Army Friday December 21, 2018. ADM Cares contributed $25,000 to the Salvation Army that helped provide a 1,000 food boxes for the distribution.
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