Merriam-Webster defines the following:
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dare /der/ - having the courage to do something
care /ker/- doing what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.

Nine years ago Hooktown Holidays was founded in February. The idea for the three founders was to donate $2 per week for the balance of the year and use the donated funds to assist someone in need in our community. Because the founding group dared to care and reach out to the invisible, the news spread and others joined the cause and $5,000 was donated by year end.
You, our wonderful supporter, dared to care and the result is over$160,000 donated back into our community to date!

Here’s what you accomplished this past year.

1. In 2021 you provided donations that allowed $10,350.00 to be distributed among these local organizations that align with our mission to provide nutritious food, warm clothing, and other necessities of life to children, families and other individuals in need in our community.

The Salvation Army (including a match of up to $500 for the Polar Plunge Event held recently).

The Veterans Emergency Fund

The Sharing Place

Produce Express

Saint Joseph’s Soup Kitchen

Area Agency on Aging (Experience, Inc.)

Tidioute Charter School Food Bank (Because you dared to care every school in Warren County now has a food bank)

A Safe Place

2. Provided donations to 2021 Shop with a Cop and donated 500 lbs of turkey’s to the Northwest Bank Food Drive.

3. Made Hooktown Holidays Annual Garage Sale and Chicken Bar-B-Q our biggest, best and most successful fund raiser ever.

4. Supported a completely separate, but important, mission to raise $10,000.00 to enable the Warren County Children’s Advocacy Center to acquire Tiger, a facility dog, whose job is to provide support and comfort in any situation where a child might be experiencing trauma.

Please come along with us again this year as we continue to grow and reach out to the neediest and loneliest individuals in our community.

Thank you.
Dare to Care.

Hooktown Holidays, Inc. Treasurer Alethea Hatfield prepares checks to go to local agencies that support our mission to provide nutritious food, warm clothing, and other necessities of life to children, families and other individuals in need in our community. Thanks to the generosity of our supporters in 2020, total donations amount to over $11,000.00. Agencies receiving donations are: Produce Express, Experience Inc., St. Joseph's Soup Kitchen, The Sharing Place, The Salvation Army, A Safe Place, The Veterans Emergency Fund, KIN (kids in need), NW/Second Harvest, Shop with a Cop and The Tidioute Charter School. Hooktown Holiday’s is a local grassroots 501(c)(3) charity serving Warren County now for 8 eight years helping our neighbors in need. This is what we do. It is the only thing we do. We believe it is the right thing to do 365 days a year.
Thank you for your support.

nFriends,

As I sit here typing this I am all alone with my thoughts. I am in my favorite chair and it’s quiet time. The girls (Betty Jo and Rachel) are napping. The lights are dim and it is absolutely still.  I’m moved to share with you my favorite writing.

The feeling I get every time I read the words of this Christmas greeting, I can't explain. It  is, by far, the most meaningful writing I have ever discovered. Imagine if you can, this Christmas Greetlng was written 507 years ago and it still rings true today. Absolutely amazing.

So, I’m sharing this as a Christmas gift to you, our caring and faithful supporters. All of us at Hooktown Holidays wish you a very Merry Christmas and a New Year you will remember with Joy.

Terry Pearson
Hooktown Holidays Founder

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