Community Generosity Leads to Successful Coats for Kids 2021 Drive

Serve Wenatchee is revealing the final tally from the Coats for Kids Drive and the numbers illustrate another successful year for the event. Almost 1,000 coats were collected at the event and a little over $4,000 was raised in cash donations the day of the event.

Community members have continued to drop by with warm clothing items and cash donations. The week prior to the drive, Serve Wenatchee had received $2,035, bringing the current total for cash donations to $6,000.

"We go to the schools and we ask them for the volumes of different sizes," said Thom Nees, executive director. "We're short on some of the sizes that we need to do, so we go out and spent just about all that we've taken in now to fill the sizes part of the order."

Coats for Kids is conducted on Wenatchee Valley's Make Difference Day, October 23, annually.

"It's incredibly inspiring to me in the midst of arguably the most negativity I've experienced in my lifetime to see people simply positively responding to their neighbors to meet a need," said Nees.

Cherry Creek Media partnered with Apple Valley Honda, The Wenatchee World, Albertson’s and Serve Wenatchee again this year for the annual drive.