Several organizations are working to provide aid to those impacted by the deadly storms that rolled through Middle Tennessee, claiming the lives of six people and leaving dozens injured.
Salvation Army to end bell-ringing tradition early due to rise in COVID-19 cases
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and last updated 2020-12-17 20:18:33-05
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â Due to the rise in new COVID-19 cases in Middle Tennessee, the Salvation Army of Nashville has made the decision to silence its bells early this year.
Organization leaders said they made the decision end the campaign early in support of first responders. The Salvation Army works alongside our communityâs first responder teams when disaster strikes our community to provide life-sustaining services to our neighbors, said Major Ethan Frizzell. This disaster called COVID is long-lasting and ever-changing in its impact, and while we continue to provide our life-sustaining services to our community as we have for the last nine months, we feel it is our responsibility to our first responder partners to not actively be out in the community any more than is critically necessary during this spike in numbers to try and help sl
out and where exactly, you know, this money is going to go to directly. you can actually go to cnn.com/impact your world. you will see links to the charities that we ve been talking about all today right here in front of our web page. you ll get the latest on the victims there in tennessee, but you will also see the various charities that this band is supporting and charities that those in tennessee say please give to. we can use the help. the community foundation is one of them. even the mayor of nashville is saying you can go to this website and know exactly where you can give directly. salvation army of nashville, as well, helping with the shelters there, but this is the charity that the band is so hot on and has given to through a number of charitable activism or concerts, should i say, where they ve been active. feeding america and the offshoot to that right here, second harvest food bank of middle tennessee. just go to cnn.com/impact your world. you ll find out about all those ch
the band is in big support of the relief efforts through this organization. we also have salvation army of nashville, but right here, feeding america, this is one organization the band has been dedicated to for a number of years and where folks in tennessee need your help as well. they ve actually put an offshoot to this, second harvest food bank of middle, tennessee. if you ve seen those out of nashville and all those communities, a lot of poverty in that area, food being one of the main things that people need right now. jo jo, tell me why you guys, why this organization, this charity in particular, feeding america, is so important to the band? the second harvest food bank we ve worked with for many, many years. i would say 10, 15 years. i know personally you can go down to woodmont second harvest church and they work with second harvest food bank and they re packing lunches. thousands of meals have been