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Kids’ Day volunteers hit Modesto streets to help Salvation Army

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Jordan Herr, right, sells a Kids’ Day newspaper to a motorist at McHenry and Roseburg avenues in Modesto on Tuesday, May 10, 2016. He was part of a contingent from Modesto’s Franklin & Downs Funeral Home that sells papers each year on that same corner. The sales benefit the Salvation Army’s Red Shield Center, which works with at-risk youths.
Jordan Herr, right, sells a Kids’ Day newspaper to a motorist at McHenry and Roseburg avenues in Modesto on Tuesday, May 10, 2016. He was part of a contingent from Modesto’s Franklin & Downs Funeral Home that sells papers each year on that same corner. The sales benefit the Salvation Army’s Red Shield Center, which works with at-risk youths. Jeff Jardine jjardine@modbee.com

Volunteers manned the street corners of Modesto and surrounding areas Tuesday for the annual Kids’ Day fundraiser for the Salvation Army. At Roseburg and McHenry avenues in Modesto, costumed mascots sold the special newspapers for $1 donations. Proceeds will go to the group’s Red Shield Center.

Preliminary figures indicate this year’s fundraiser brought in a little more than $95,000, Salvation Army Lieutenant Quinton Markham said. Though some donations were still trickling in, the total looks to be down a bit from 2015, which brought in $108,000.

Still, Markham said, “We really, really appreciate the outpouring of support that this community shows to the Salvation Army and the Red Shield.”

This story was originally published May 12, 2016 at 2:31 PM with the headline "Kids’ Day volunteers hit Modesto streets to help Salvation Army."

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