For 8 years the staff, owners, and customers of Stahl Peterbilt have taken on the role of Christmas angels, collecting new toys for The Salvation Army’s Edmonton Community & Family Services to distribute to Edmonton families. This year they hit an all-time high, filling Santa’s Glider with 1,103 toys! Their showroom was packed and the  […]

Elves and Santas and reindeer – oh my! The country banded together on Saturday December 6, 2014 to fight poverty and restore dignity in Canada at the 24th annual Santa Shuffle 5k Fun Run & 1k Elf Walk. 41 cities across the country took part, including Lethbridge, Red Deer, Calgary, and Edmonton, where over 1600  […]

WINNIPEG, MB – This past weekend, thousands of shoppers lined up with donations of toys to build a Toy Mountain at St. Vital Centre. Cheerful volunteers from Scotiabank, the Winnipeg Fire Department and Bell Media joined The Salvation Army in receiving and stacking toys to help make Christmas brighter for children in need. Gifts streamed  […]

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?  […]