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Nov 22
2011Local emergency responder agencies answer the call of helping to feed the hungry this Thanksgiving...
Beginning to unload the food donations from the ambulancesFor the fourth year in a row, NorthStar EMS hosted the "Drive Away Hunger" campaign to benefit the homeless and hungry of the Jimmie Hale Mission.
Coverage of the event as shown on Fox 6
With sirens blazing and lights flashing, ambulances with LifeGuard and NorthStar arrived with vehicles loaded with canned goods and non-perishable food items. According to Brent Dierking, contact at NorthStar EMS, "Our goal is to fill as many ambulances as possible with food to help our friends at the Jimmie Hale Mission provide meals to those in need."
Makeitha Moore with Lifeguard, Brent Dierking with NorthStar EMS and Tony Cooper,
the Mission's Executive Director discuss how the food donations will helpSeveral nursing homes also partnered with this event and helped to donate items including South Health & Rehab, Highlands at The Oaks on Parkwood, Civic Center Health & Rehab, Northway Health & Rehab, Cherry Hill Healthcare and Eastview Healthcare.
Current Mission clients Tyrone and Alonzo were excited to help unload the food donationsThank you to everyone who participated in this food drive! If you would like to conduct your own food drive to help feed the hungry, click here to learn more.
Even More Video: Coverage of this event on CBS 42 and ABC 33/40
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Nov 21
2011With Thanksgiving less than a week away, the Jimmie Hale Mission prepares for the holiday...
Tony stops by Talk of Alabama to discuss Thanksgiving plans
Tony talks turkey on ABC 33/40
Prepping Thanksgiving meals at the Jimmie Hale MissionThe Jimmie Hale Mission and its three residential facilities - Shepura Men's Center, Jessie's Place and Royal Pines - are busy preparing for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Throughout the holidays, we'll serve hundreds of meals at our facilities to the homeless and hungry; hundreds more will be delivered to local seniors and shut-ins.
It's not too late! You can still help fill our empty shelvesHere, Tony Cooper, executive director, talks with CBS 42 about what we do during Thanksgiving and how people can help (it's not too late!). Check out the video and if you'd like to help, click here.
Tony talks turkey on CBS 42UPDATE: NBC 13's Daytime Alabama also stopped by recently to find how we're preparing for the upcoming holiday and how you can still help.
Wendy Garner interviews Tony Cooper on Daytime Alabama
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Nov 16
2011NBC 13's John Paepcke sat down with Executive Director Tony Cooper to see how the Jimmie Hale Mission makes the most of its donations...
Paepcke recently conducted a fact-check report on Birmingham charities. Part of his report included an interview with our Executive Director Tony Cooper about how the Mission strives to practice good stewardship of donor dollars.
For the full 2010 Annual Report and other financial documents,
click here to learn more about the Mission's financial stewardship.According to Tony Cooper, "81 cents of every donor dollar goes to program services." He continued to say that "We believe in stewardship and this is not our money, this is God's money and we and our board take that very seriously."
The entire video of Paepcke's report is included here, where you can see Tony's interview for yourself:
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Nov 10
2011A group of volunteers turn their love of knitting into a way to help others...
Wendy Garner of NBC 13's Daytime Alabama talks with Mary Anne
Hollingshead about their knitting group that helps othersMary Anne Hollingshead has knitted warm clothing items for the Jimmie Hale Mission and Jessie's Place for a while now. As she's worked to help others less-fortunate, her ministry has grown tremendously to include others who have turned their love of knitting into a way to benefit the needy.
Ladies at Meadow Brook Baptist stitch together an afghan for the
women and children of Jessie's PlaceDaytime Alabama visited Mary Anne at her church, Meadow Brook Baptist, where the knitting group now works; the group of volunteers had grown too large for Mary Anne's house.
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