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298 - North Shore News

Lower Mainland Malls Ensure Charity’s In The Bag!

The Blue Bag isa fasniliar
part of Fite these divs a
aow The Salvation Armas
has puta new spinon ihe
conventional Blue Bag.
The Salvation Army. an
meernationalle recountzed
non profit organization
dedicated to providing
food, shelter, clothing
and rehabilitation
programs in an
atmosphere of dignity
and respect. On August
ist, The Salvation Army
will officially kick off the
1998 Western Canada
BLUE - BAG - IT
Campaign. The program
will be in effect in both
British Columbia and

12 Drop. off your filled bag by the last ‘Sat irdoy in Augus to any of the

Alberta until Acasuis:
29th.

over a million Blue Bags
(600,000 in cach
previnee!, will be
delivered directly to che

door of housholds

What to do

with your
new Blue
Bag?
Fill it....
with used

clothing.

through out the we
WestePh Provinces

Pots face itv eversons fas
clothes in thei losers
dhatare noe longer worn,
Most poople recognize
the importancy of
teeveling plastic. phiss,
paper and metals bur few
realize the value of
reeveling used clothing.
Rather than stuff your
worn clothing ina
traditional green garbape
bag that heads straight
fer the landfill, why not

BLUE - BAG - IT for the

benefit of The Salvation

Army and it’s community

progams?
Each Salvation Army

Here's show...

Fall this bag with, clothing, bedd ding and shoes that you relonger vaed

First Row-(left to right} Captam Duane Fry,

Captain Irene Fry, Rosario Lomeda - City

Square, Judy Krawchuk - Metrotown, Karn Dhillon - KISS FM, Evelyn Wright -
Willowbrook, Nola Sedgewick - Lansdowne, Bonnie Rempel - Semialmoo, Shaley Boese -
Surrey Place, Major Sam Fame - Harbour Light
Second Row:- (left to right) Harbour Light employee, Angela Hogan - Pacifie Centre,
Keith Mackenzie - BCTV, Cary Gaymond - Salvation Army Consultant, Michelle Boak -

Coquitlam Centre.

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parhicipat ing shopping, centre locations listed on the reverse side of this: ‘bag

3. Addi Horta Blue Bags 9 e av ‘oloble, a your local shogpng centre

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Blue Bag will hold
ately 15 Ibs of
clothing that might

approxi

otherwise find it’s way
into already overloaded
landfills. It is the target of
the month long

campaign to collect a
minimum of 140,000
bags equalling over 2

Participating
malls are the
Pacific Centre,
Metrotown,
Park Royal,
Surrey Place,
Landsdowne,
City Square,
Coquitlam,
Willowbrook
and
Semiahmoo

Shopping
Centres.

million pounds of
clothing.

Once the clothing is.
received, useable items
will be sold through The
Salvation Army Thrift
Shops - where quality
clothing is sold at
affordable prices. All
clothing is 100% recycled
through Salvation Army
programs. Once you've

filled your Blue

Bag.... what do you do
with it? You take it to any
one of a number of
participating shopping
malls located throughout
the Lower Mainland.
Each participating Mall
will have a visible and
eastly accessible drop off
location where you can
deposit your Blue Bag.
All proceeds generated
from the BLUE - BAG -
IT Campaign will fund
The Salvation Army's
many community
programs, including
downtown Vancouver's
Harbour Light Centre
where drug and alcohol
addicted clients are
treated and where
anywhere from 500 - 800
hot meals a day are served
to Vancouver's needy
men, women and
children.

As pictured, participating
mall Marketing Managers
gathered last week at the
Harbour Light Centre to
serve lunch to over 500
people prior to the kick
off the BLUE - BAG - IT
campaign.

Thanks to the BLUE -
BAG - IT Campaign we
all have a chance to help
The Salvation Army and
the People it serves. In
August when you clean
out your closet to make
room for fall, think
blue... and BLUE - BAG

- IT for a worthy cause!)

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