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Good Samaritan Ministries is rushing to provide hope for the holidays to more than 750 local families with teens and children, and several low-income seniors, veterans and others who are disabled, homeless and with special needs. Good Samaritan Ministries Executive Director Aaron Murphy said Wednesday the ministry is now about $50,000 away from meeting its goal of providing food and gifts to 700 families with teens and younger children, 100 low-income seniors, 100 people with special needs, 100 veterans, and 100 people who are homeless and an additional 60 families with children on its waiting list. Murphy said the ministry is also continuing to add to its waiting list and will continue serving everyone it can through Dec. 23. ....
Angel Tree gifts for nearly 1,400 children and food for Christmas for each of their families and for several hundred low-income seniors are set to roll out this week at the Appalachian Fairgrounds and National Guard Armory in Elizabethton. Johnson City Salvation Army Captain Bethany Yocum said Friday Angel Tree shopping has been completed for each of the children, with an anonymous organization picking up the last of 100 or more children last week as they have for the past several years. Work to process the gifts for distribution is progressing furiously with help from a small crew of volunteers who will join the Salvation Army staff in the distribution Wednesday at the National Guard Armory in Elizabethton and Friday at the Appalachian Fairgrounds in Gray. ....