ABOUT CHARITY NEWSIES
The 2nd Saturday in December, for more than eight decades, hundreds of local volunteers have walked the length and breadth of Fairfield County selling our ‘Special Edition’ Lancaster Eagle Gazette - a tradition since the Great Depression, and one that has benefited thousands of our Fairfield County neighbors.
It all began Dec. 11, 1936, when a group of local businessmen, led by R. Kenneth Kerr, of the Eagle Gazette, met at the Sherman Armory at the corner of Broad and Wheeling streets in Lancaster.
Annually, the 2nd Saturday in August in preparation for the new school year, Newsies provide ‘back-to-school’ clothes and ‘teacher-recommended, grade specific’ school supplies for hundreds of area children.
On the Saturday before Christmas Newsies deliver more than 500 food baskets to families throughout Fairfield County.
The rest of the year Newsies assist families who have fallen victim to a home fire, flood or other disaster.
The 2nd Saturday in December, for more than eight decades, hundreds of local volunteers have walked the length and breadth of Fairfield County selling our ‘Special Edition’ Lancaster Eagle Gazette - a tradition since the Great Depression, and one that has benefited thousands of our Fairfield County neighbors.
It all began Dec. 11, 1936, when a group of local businessmen, led by R. Kenneth Kerr, of the Eagle Gazette, met at the Sherman Armory at the corner of Broad and Wheeling streets in Lancaster.
Annually, the 2nd Saturday in August in preparation for the new school year, Newsies provide ‘back-to-school’ clothes and ‘teacher-recommended, grade specific’ school supplies for hundreds of area children.
On the Saturday before Christmas Newsies deliver more than 500 food baskets to families throughout Fairfield County.
The rest of the year Newsies assist families who have fallen victim to a home fire, flood or other disaster.
