The Christmas season is upon us and The Salvation Army Addictions and Residential Centre (ARC) in Edmonton held their annual community Christmas dinner on Tuesday, hosting over 400 guests for a full turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Guests included many young families, those dealing with homelessness, and seniors, like 76 year-old Gladys. Gladys often  […]

The Salvation Army hosted its annual Hope in the City luncheon on Wednesday, November 12 at the Hyatt Regency in Calgary. The event had 700 guests in attendance from corporate Calgary and featured guest speaker Brian Burke, President of Hockey Operations with the Calgary Flames. Guests were welcomed into the event by the Salvation Army  […]

The Salvation Army’s Community & Family Services (CFS) in Edmonton offers a free breakfast every Friday morning for anyone in the community who needs one. Today, to highlight some of the programs your kettle donations fund, we’ve had some special guest servers help us out to bring awareness to these programs. Susan Read and Larry  […]

Hope is in the City of Edmonton The Salvation Army launched its Christmas Kettle Campaign at the Third Annual Hope in the City Breakfast on Friday, November 14, 2014 with the first official donations from members of their Edmonton Advisory Board. Meeting this year’s $545,000 campaign goal allows The Salvation Army’s Community and Family Services in  […]

The 12th annual Share the Warmth Coat Drive wrapped up last week with nearly 5,000 coats being collected for Calgary’s less fortunate! The Jeff and Sarah Show on Q107 encouraged Calgarians to give, which helped donations grow from 423 coats in 2012, to nearly 5,000 coats this year. The Calgary Stampeders invited fans to bring coats  […]

WINNIPEG, MB – A Decade of Hope, it’s not just an event theme, it’s something The Salvation Army in Winnipeg are proud of and shared with the city at large at the 10th annual Hope in the City breakfast. Over four hundred and thirty guests packed the RBC Convention Centre, this past Wednesday, to hear  […]

The Salvation Army’s annual Christmas Kettle Campaign begins across the country Thursday, November 13th, and ends on Christmas Eve at noon. Many volunteers are needed to help us reach our goal; can you spare a few hours this Christmas season to volunteer at one of our kettles? How about volunteering with your child, or grandchild?  […]

Residents and business owners located in parts of downtown Calgary on October 11, 2014, were left without power for four and half days due to an Enmax fire and power outage. The disruption of services affected over five-thousand residents and tens of thousands of workers. Thankfully, The Salvation Army was there to provide support. The  […]

WINNIPEG, MB – The Salvation Army would like to thank the volunteers of the Winnipeg Police Service and the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service for making this year’s Touchdown for Toy Mountain at Saturday’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers game a great success. Over 1,000 toys and $1,449.65 were raised on the day, providing a great headstart for  […]

What an exciting time we had at our 21st Annual Harvest Brunch & Auction on October 4th! More than doubling the amount raised last year, over $80,000 will go to The Salvation Army’s Grace Manor senior’s residence for their Walking Path Project. The 420 metre path will be designed to give residents the ability to  […]