Ringing for the Red Kettle

All hands are needed to ring the Salvation Army bells in the week before Christmas! Choose your location — Palmer Square, Hinds Plaza, or in front of the church — and sign up early to get the time slot you want. Days: Tuesday to Saturday, December 19 to 24.

These 2013 photos by photographer Edem Timpo show how much fun it is to help people donate to the Salvation Army. Fun — but dress warmly!  Ding aling aling aling!

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Eileen and Michael Francisco Cabus in 2013, photo by Edem Timpo

These 2013 photos by photographer Edem Timpo show how much fun it is to help people donate to the Salvation Army. Fun — but dress warmly!  Ding aling aling aling!

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Tim Ewer and Iona Harding ring the bell in Palmer Square

 

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Edem Timpo, the photographer, captures her mom taking a donation to the Red Kettle in Palmer Square
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Lula Crawford greets passersby in front of ‘the friendly church on the corner.’ Photo by Edem Timpo

Midsummer Opportunity on July 21

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Often PUMC participates in the Princeton Regional Chamber’s annual Midsummer Marketing Showcase (shown above, from 2013, Jie Hayes and Iona Harding spinning the wheel made by Tim Ewer). This year it’s Tuesday, July 21, from 4 to 7 p.m., Though we don’t have a table, we can all just go and mingle, talk to old and new friends, sample food and freebies, and enjoy the festivities. And it’s free!

Four years ago at this event, I encountered a sign designer, Raul Gutierrez and his wife Claire. Raul volunteered his services, pro bono, to create a much needed plan for wayfinding (direction) signs for PUMC. His plan was the basis for the first set of paper signs that we had. Now he’s helping us with the designs for permanent ones.

So if you can go to this event, identify yourself as a chamber member from PUMC!  You may meet someone who needs to explore their faith. You may meet someone you can do do business with. You never know what can happen from a chance encounter!

signed — Barbara Fox