American Red Cross

The American Red Cross of Coshocton County put on their first Armed Services Ball this past Saturday night at the Coshocton Armory. The event was very well attended and was a delightful evening.

The evening highlighted the services that the Red Cross provides to the families of military. Red Cross is the only means to contact a solideir in the case of an emergency.

The Coshocton Hospital (Dave Powers & crew) served a delightful meal.

And the Coshocton Big Band entertained the guest with great music. Congratulations to the Red Cross and it's volunteers who put on a very nice fundraising event.

CASCO

Amie Bair is the United Way's Employee Campaign Manager at Classic Auto Supply this year. She is getting everyone in the campaign spirit by filling their stomachs. Each Friday, employees have had the opportunity to buy lunch at work with the profits going to CASCO's United Way campaign. Here's a picture of Amie (right) and one of CASCO's owners, Betsy Brown (left), serving up some delicious spaghetti.

School campaigns are going strong this year. Here are a few pictures of what is being done in the city schools.

South Lawn Elementary had a pumpkin decorating contest. Students and faculty can vote on their favorite pumpkin by using their change. Check out these awesome pumpkins...

Way to go!

At Central Elementary this neat display was on the art door.

The Students and teachers got in the campaign spirit by a fun game of volleyball. Students who donated to the United Way to take their shot at beating the teachers on this beautiful fall afternoon! What a fun way to LIVE UNITED!

Kick Off

The 2008-09 was kicked off by another great event. The "Taste of Coshocton County" was held on August 28th at the Lake Park Pavilion. Thanks to a great Kick Off committee, the hard working partner agencies, a fantastic group of board members and 500 of our community members, the event was a true success!

18 food vendors from around our county showed off their favorite foods.

Entertainment was provided by the Union Recreation Cheerleaders...Union Spirit. They rallied the crowd with United Way cheers. What cuties!

Miss Jennifer's Elite Dance Force strutted their stuff and danced their way into many hearts. What talented groups we had that night!

14 Longaberger baskets were given to 14 lucky participants in the basket raffle. Each agency creatively designed a basket and filled it with tons of great items.

The evening was a huge success! We raised over $4,000 in one evening, but more important, we came together as a community to kick off the campaign and Live United!

August First Fridays

Last Friday night was the First Friday event in downtown Coshocton. This has grown into such a wonderful family activity in our community.

With our annual Kick Off just around the corner, we took this opportunity to show off some of our 14 Longaberger baskets we will be raffling off at the event.

I'll try to get some up close pictures of these basket in the near future so you can check them out!

We also handed out free popcorn and bottles of water to those passing by. We had some of our wonderful board members there to help out with the event. This is a great night to talk with fellow community members and work together as a team to make such a pleasant night for Coshocton.

We even had the Mayor stop by and join us for some jump rope. He was really quite good!

What a great night! I hope to see you at the September First Friday Event!

Quite a donation!

The United Way of Coshocton was blessed this spring to get an unusual donation. A donor, who has asked to stay annonymous, donated a mobile home to the United Way. His mother had passed away and he hadn't been able to sell it. He wanted to move on with life, so he decided to gift it to us. We in turn, contracted with Peddicord Rice Auction Realty and held an auction. The trailer sold on June 30th for $21,000!

Needless to say we are thrilled! A huge THANK YOU goes out to the generous family who donated the home, to Peddicord Rice for bringing great results, the Coshocton Tribune for some great press on the event and to everyone who turned out that evening to show your support. The home sold to a nice family that is going to move it onto their property in order to move their elderly parents closer to them. This was a win-win-win situation for everyone involved.

If you have something different that you would like to donate to the United Way, give us a call!