
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 29, 1993                   TAG: 9312290032
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: METRO 
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NEVER TOO YOUNG TO LEARN TO SHARE BLESSINGS

Three-year-old Kate Robbins is excited about the snow she has seen over the holidays. When she's not busy attending parties and family gatherings, she likes to make snow angels and build snowmen.

Kate understands that by giving to the Good Neighbors Fund, she is helping needy people who must endure the cold temperatures and biting snow. She enjoys helping people. "I just like doing stuff like that," she said.

Carol Hagy and Vicki Salisbury, Kate's preschool teachers at First Presbyterian Church, asked their pupils to give to charities instead of bringing gifts to their teachers.

Salisbury got the idea two years ago when then-preschooler Isabel Hopkins gave to the fund in honor of her teacher. Salisbury was touched when she received the acknowledgment card for that donation. "It made me cry. . . I just thought it was the sweetest thing."

Salisbury is happy to know her pupils like to give her gifts each holiday. "But there is a much better place for people to put their money," she said.

Checks should be made payable to Good Neighbors Fund and mailed to Roanoke Times & World-News, P.O. Box 1951, Roanoke 24008.

Names - but not the amounts of donations - of contributing businesses, individuals or organizations, as well as memorial and honorific designations, will be listed. Those requesting that their names not be used will remain anonymous. If no preference is stated, the donor's name will be listed.

Gifts cannot be earmarked for any particular individual or family. Gifts are tax-deductible.

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