ABOUT CHARITY NEWSIES

The 2nd Saturday in December -  for nearly nine decades now - hundreds of local volunteers have walked the length and breadth of Fairfield County selling our ‘Special Edition’ Lancaster Eagle Gazette - a tradition since the Great Depression, and one that has benefited thousands of our Fairfield County neighbors.

It all began Dec. 11, 1936, when a group of local businessmen, led by R. Kenneth Kerr of the Eagle Gazette, met at the Sherman Armory at the corner of Broad and Wheeling streets in Lancaster.

Annually in late July/early August, in preparation for the new school year Charity Newsies provide ‘back-to-school’ clothes and ‘teacher-recommended, grade specific’ school supplies for hundreds of area children.  Throughout the school year we also stock emergency clothing and other necessities into school clinics.

On the Saturday before Christmas the Charity Newsies gather in fellowship, to pack and deliver 500+ food boxes to families throughout Fairfield County.

And the rest of the year we assist families who have fallen on hard times, as the result of a house fire, flood or other personal disaster.