Events – Open Your Heart
2022 OPEN YOUR HEART DATE
Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
KFYR 550 AM Radio will kick off this year’s campaign with a 12-hour broadcast starting at 6:00 a.m. at the Kirkwood Mall, accepting cash donations and non-perishable food items.
Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
Open Your Heart will allow the selected families to shop at Target in the Kirkwood Mall from 7:00 AM to 10:30 PM.
Please bring you notice letters with you.
Sunday, December 18, 2022
*****Please park in the Civic Center South Parking Lot and use SE entrance. ******
Volunteers are needed to sort, stack, and count all donated and purchased food items starting at 1:00 p.m. at the Bismarck Civic Center. Sorting and stacking should be complete by 4:00 p.m. (depending upon how many volunteers we have helping).
At 7:00 p.m. more volunteers are needed to pack baskets for the families. Tables are set up, each with a particular food item. Members of motorcycle clubs fill tote boxes with staples and volunteers pack baskets for the families. The volunteers move around the tables and food items are placed in the baskets based on the number of members in each family. After that is complete, by about 9:00 p.m. (depending upon how many volunteers we have helping), we will take down the tables and sweep up.
Monday, December 19, 2022
Open Your Heart campaign loads and delivers baskets. Volunteers are needed to load the vehicles and volunteers are also needed with their vehicles to deliver the baskets to the families. Starting at 6:00 p.m. volunteer drivers delivering the baskets start arriving while other volunteers load their vehicles with the food baskets. After the drivers deliver the food baskets, any undelivered baskets are returned. Some last-minute families will get the undelivered baskets, with the rest being delivered to the Salvation Army and Heavens Helpers Soup Kitchen.
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 – 2nd delivery (if needed)
Open Your Heart campaign loads and delivers baskets. Volunteers are needed to load the vehicles and volunteers are also needed with their vehicles to deliver the baskets to the families. Starting at 6:00 p.m. volunteer drivers delivering the baskets start arriving while other volunteers load their vehicles with the food baskets. After the drivers deliver the food baskets, any undelivered baskets are returned. Some last-minute families will get the undelivered baskets, with the rest being delivered to the Salvation Army and Heavens Helpers Soup Kitchen.
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