The Toledo Blade covered the Mayors press conference,  here are the results to date:

So close, with many boxes yet coming in from Churches this weekend, and final tallies at the schools, hope exists for a final push.

Toledo Free Press is also covering the kids.   Check out this link   Thanks all!

HI KIDS,
     I WENT TO ERIE STREET MARKET TODAY FOR THE DISTRIBUTION.  WOW. I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW PROUD I AM OF ALL OF YOU THAT WERE THERE. 

I SAW ALMOST AS MANY TEEN VOLUNTEERS AS I DID ADULTS.  I SAW YOU GUYS CARRYING BAGS, ESCORTING PEOPLE THROUGH THE LINES, AND HELPING PEOPLE OUT THE DOOR. 

YOU ALL WERE SMILING AND LAUGHING AND TALKING TO THE OTHERS AROUND YOU.  PEOPLE COMMENTED TO ME HOW INCREDIBLE THE KIDS IN THIS COMMUNITY ARE.

I AM NOT SURE YOU ALL REALLY REALIZE HOW MUCH YOU HAVE DONE, AND ARE CONTINUING TO DO TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS AND TO BRING HOPE INTO PEOPLE’S LIVES.  KEEP GOING KIDS.  YOU HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR CITY AND IN OUR WORLD. 

THANK YOU FOR SHOWING WHAT IT MEANS TO CARE ABOUT OTHERS!

LOVE,
   JACKIE FRISCH

Hey kids, the erie street market is available on the 20th, you guys still wanna put together the dance?

Congrats to Kelly and her team, they produced a GREAT video.   Feel free to email all of your friends and get them to this website.

Hello kids, it’s Jackie Frisch.  I had to drop a line to let you all know how proud I am of each of you. 

You have already accomplished so much and we have only just begun.  This is a time to have fun coming up ways to get together with other kids and raise money for people in need. 

Who can come up with the best, craziest, and most successful ideas?  Talk to your teachers, parents, and your friends and keep going toward the goal of $150,000.  YEAH!  You can DO IT! 

Keep posting your ideas and events and don’t forget to include photos and videos. If I hear about it in advance, I will try to come to your event too! 

Love, Jackie

Title: Donation Box Wrapping
Location: OLPH School
Link out: Click here
Description: Everyone is invited to come to OLPH and help us wrap and decorate boxes. Boxes (like shoe boxes) are also needed.
Start Time: 8:45 AM
Date: 2008-12-08

Last night at the lighting of the holiday lights at 1G was awe inspiring.   Mr. Kitson from United Way told Santa that 8 grand was raised this morning at the Mayor’s business breakfast.  With the $1700 plus the kids raised today, we have almost ten grand, raised in 1 day. 

ONE DAY!

Here is Shaun From Fox Toledo’s Story 

If you look at the list the kids suggested, one of the things was to get the mayor to shave his head, get taped to the wall, or get made into a Ice Cream Sundae.   We asked the mayor.  He has agreed that if the kids get their goal, the top kids who raised the most will be able to turn him into an ice cream sundae.

Jackie Frisch has more faith in kids than anyone I have ever met.  She did a remarkable job inspiring, loving and beleiving in the kids.  She Rocks.

Co-Santas John and Matt share their event info.

These two kids, the ones that helped start this whole thing, who arranged the basketball game today at OLPH,who got the entire school involved, they raised $1500 today.

We will have pictures and videos of the events up shortly.

That is 1% of the shortage. Just by two kids effort. Amen.

“The Grinch may have stole Christmas, but we’re saving it.”

Note:  All of these videos are written by the kids!

Donation Station

Want to give? Your tax deductible donation can be made at this link.  United Way is collecting all the funds to be distributed to the Salvation Army and the Marine Corps Toys for Tots.

For a quick video of what we are doing, co-santa Laura s’plains it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGL-sj3d5Os

Bottom line, it’s up to us kids.  IF you really wanna help, you need to do something today!  Start today, not tomorrow.  Here are some of the ideas we came up with.  See what you can do, but start it TODAY, there is no time cause we want to prove to the adults who don’t think we can do it that they are wrong! 

Main goal: To raise as much money as possible to help save Christmas for more families.

Here are the ideas we thought of the other night. We need you to do these or something you think of this week, or actually, start today.  We gotta be done by december 16th. Hurry.

Basketball game (students vs. staff) - $1 admission
Penny wars
Week of wearing jeans
Donate time with Salvation Army kettles
Kids Save Christmas dance (Erie Street Market)
Jars in classrooms (random donations
Crush pop cans and take them in for money
Candy grams
Get people involved with youtube, myspace, facebook, aim pages
news stations
dances, games, concession stand
Movie during school - $1 admission
Auction (companies donate prizes
Create donation boxes for kids saving Christmas for schools and businesses
Christmas caroling with a donation box
Connections with Katie Holmes, Alyson Stoner, Nate Washington, etc
Donation boxes at fast food restaurants
Banner across busy streets
Radio stations (especially 101.5
The Blade
Belching contestlist
Dance off
Percentage of profit goes to Kids Save Christmas at a restaurant of choice
Paper clip collection
Rewards

Winning classes duct tape principal to the wall
Pie, shave head, or decorate principal with ice cream sundae toppings
If goal reached: mayor shaves head, duct tape, sundae toppings
If goal reached: mayor goes around to schools and thanks students

**Rewards go to winning classrooms

All the money goes to the Marine Corps Toys for Tots, and the Salvation Army.   Checks should be made out to United Way, with the memo Kids Saving Christmas, and United Way will give both groups the money.  United Way’s address can be found here.

If you have questions, you can email us at santa@kidssavingchristmas.org

It’s up to us kids. If you do nothing, there will be a lot of kids and families who will not have the same happy holiday as you and I.  We got a lot, time to give a little. You gotta do something at your school on this week.

Post here what u r doing to share with everybody else. Tape it on your phone or something, put it on youtube and if u send us a link, we will link it here, on youtube and on fb.

We are the next generation. Adults, we will need your help, please don’t let us down.

Merry Christmas