We are so thankful for little ones like Ava Wires who donate to the Kids Closet every year. Her and her parents just dropped off a huge donation of little girls clothing. Thank you Ava for thinking of others in our community.

This year’s Ashland County Fair was a fabulous blessing for Associated Charities. We are so grateful to the many generous people that donated beef, pork, lamb and chicken to our Food Bank. Your donations have filled our freezers and will feed many families in our county.

Thank you!

Many thanks to the AU Students that helped at the food drive their first week back to school. They were able to collect almost 2,000 pounds of food for the Ashland County Food Bank. Great job again this year!

Thank you “Crazy Monkey Baking” for a van full of goodies!! Teresa Humrichouser and Cari Campbell stopped by last week with their van full of Crazy Monkey granola for the Ashland County Food Bank. This will be such a wonderful treat for our food bank clients! Thank you!!

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We had some awesome kids drop in with a donation to Associated Charities. Jill, Jackson and John Hildenbrand opened up a lemonade stand and donated the profits to help others in our county. Ashland is blessed to have youth like this with such caring hearts! Thank you!

Josh Doss, a member of the “Back to School Brigade” dropped off a truck load of school supplies for our Ashland County youth. His group had helped local military families with supplies for their children and then shared with Associated Charities to help other families in our area. Another caring and generous group we have in our county. Thank you!

Believe it or not – it’s that time of year! We will be starting our annual JUSST back to school program next week. Appointments will be taken on August 6-7-8-9 and 10th from 9 to 11 and 1 to 3 at our office. Clothing will be then distributed the week of August 13th. If you need school supplies ONLY you can stop in the office beginning August 8th with your supply list. Please call our office at 419-281-6061 for details or questions.

Our Kids Fest was a success again this year thanks to the many donors, volunteers, bakers and those that attended and supported us by purchasing  hotdogs, ice cream, lemonade, bake sale goodies or  participated in the raffle and silent auction. We are so grateful to our community for it’s support of our back to school program and Kids Closet. We will be starting our J.U.S.T. for school program soon!

Thank you!

Our Kids Fest will be this Saturday from 10:30 to 3 pm. All money raised will be used to purchase back to school clothes and clothing for our Kids Closet. Please stop in for a hotdog/drink (donation only). We also have a bake sale, raffle and silent auction. Here is a list of items we have for the silent auction: Cleveland Cavalier’s, Larry Nance Jr. autographed ball, 2 passes to Dollywood, African Safari Wildlife passes, Golf package – (Ashland Golf Club, Brookside Golf, Paradise Hill Golf Club), Buffalo Wild Wings $80 certificates, Cedar Point passes, Kings Island passes, Mohican Hills Golf Club $100 certificate and basket of extras, Mohican State Park Lodge, Snow Trails, Tin Can Chandelier $50 certificate, Milwaukee Drill, Leaf blower, Yeti Giant Thirst Slayer, Yeti Hopper Flip cooler, Yeti Roadie cooler, Utility Cart, Step2 Whisper Ride car, Step2 Water table, Step2 PIcnic table, Gift card package (Cleveland Ave. Market, CVS, Farm & Home Hardware, Miller-Hawkins), Gift cards to Krogers and Walmart. We will also have a raffle (will post prizes soon). We have to thank our generous donors that have given so many items to our auction and raffle. Come on down for a chance to win some great items and bring the kids to play games for FREE! They win prizes too!!

We just received an autographed Cav’s basketball, signed by Larry Nance Jr. plus a Cavalier’s t-shirt, hat, bag, pen and notepad. These items will be available at our Kids Fest on July 14th for the silent auction. Please stop in and place a bid and please tell your friends. We have more great items to raffle and auction off. We will have complete list later this week!

We want to thank the generous children at Trinity’s Bible School for this huge donation of school supplies! Don’t you just love seeing kids helping other kids? Thank you!!