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By Victor Kaisar

Salvation Army

Salvation Army mail campaign to wrap up on December 31

Dec 28, 2024 | 10:15 AM

KAMLOOPS — While the Salvation Army’s Kettle Campaign in Kamloops has ended for the year, its mail campaign will be running for a few more days.

Major Orest Goyak says the mail campaign was impacted by the month-long strike at Canada Post, which was suspended on December 17 after federal intervention.

“The mail has been coming in pretty slow actually but it is coming in,” Goyak told CFJC Today. “Folks, I guess, have held on to their envelopes and hopefully they’re posting them now. We have until December 31 for our mail-in campaign.”

Goyak says the mail campaign is hoping to raise $210,000 for the Salvation Army in Kamloops. That money is in addition to the $240,000 goal for the kettle campaign which ended on Christmas Eve.

“It all goes to the same pot but a lot of folks choose to send in their donation via cheque as opposed to putting it in the red kettle,” Goyak said. “Lots of folks like to send it in the mail the old way.”

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As of Monday (Dec. 23), Goyak said the mail-in campaign in Kamloops had raised $95,275 towards its goal. He also said that more than $20,000 was raised over the final two days of the kettle campaign, which finished $3,236 short of its goal.

“I want to thank the folks of Kamloops for coing out and supporting our campaign,” Goyak said. “We’re very grateful for all of the runds that have come in.”