Parents of 4 looking for some help to make ends meet

Believing that the Lowcountry would offer better employment opportunities, Jack and Sarah moved to this area 18 months ago with their four children. Jobs were not as plentiful as they had hoped.

Sarah works in a fast-food restaurant and Jack, a mechanic, is paid per repair job. The couple is having trouble making ends meet, and wants to provide only the basics for their family this holiday season.

Every cent of each donation to the Good Cheer Fund is given to six local charities: The Salvation Army, Star Gospel Mission, Association for the Blind, Catholic Charities, Carolina Youth Development Center and Lowcountry Food Bank. There are no overhead or administrative costs involved. Also, funds are not distributed to any individual or organization outside the Good Cheer Fund agencies.

Send your contribution today to the Good Cheer Fund, c/o The Post and Courier, 134 Columbus St., Charleston, SC 29403-4800. Any amount could help make Christmas a little brighter for somebody less fortunate, like Jack and Sarah.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Ron and Lee Koster, John and Donna Rosa, Sam and Liz Bass, Rick and Donna Kellahan and Jack Hare, Legacy Court Homeowners $125.00

In honor of our grandparents, love Lucy and Jamie Renneker and Adam Colley 600.00

Concetta Atwood 50.00

Honoring Jesusians 100.00

Dan Williams and Karen Quasny 100.00

Mrs R.C. Smith 25.00

To honor all Charleston County Guardians ad Litem 50.00

Millie Shaw 50.00

Lionel and Sally Lawson 100.00

Bob and Norma Newton 125.00

In honor of our military and all who serve from Retired Col. and Mrs. Charles Krecklow 100.00

In honor of my sixth-grade students at Porter-Gaud School from Erica Lesesne 25.00

In honor of Aimee Herring and Vidas Katinas 50.00

For my "Butterbean" and "Wack-a-doodle" love Francie 10.00

Ray and Bobbye Wilson 75.00

Tom and Edna Bennett 25.00

Elizabeth and Ellis Brown 20.00

Hannah, Walker, William Manzi and Jonathan Gunnells 25.00

McClellanville Civic Club, with all best wishes 300.00

In honor of Osei Chandler, from Cyndi Sieber and Rosalind Simmons 40.00

In thanksgiving for our grands and greatgrands, from "Gub" and "GG" 50.00

Mary Wagers 25.00

JCB 50.00

Ronald and Lillian Eades 50.00

William and Nancy Bryant 100.00

Joseph Moore Jr. 200.00

Rick and Ann Miller 100.00

Virginia Bittenbender 50.00

Melaina and Michael Jones 100.00

Ivan and Marjorie Pearce 25.00

G. Ann Mason 50.00

John and Pauline Sullivan 100.00

Charles F. Jones 500.00

John and Mary Jean Sullivan 100.00

Beverly Buswell 50.00

Eve and Tom Herbick 100.00

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Marks, Jr. 250.00

Dan and Suzanne Pettay 100.00

Robert, Ashley, Grace and Cooper Gore 25.00

Scott and Barbara Ferson 100.00

Julia Cart 35.00

Victoria W. West 100.00

ANONYMOUS

100.00

50.00

100.00

25.00

100.00

50.00

IN LIEU OF CARDS

Thelma Sandifer 100.00

Dr. Sue Wilds 50.00

Jim Bowring and Sharla Gould 100.00

IN MEMORY OF

My husband Hal Svendsen, Aunt Resa and Uncle Virgil Svendsen 25.00

Our parents, Beatrice Levine and Saul Mandel from Audrey and Mark Mandel 140.00

Elise and Louie Elrod & Inez and Odell Fralix 100.00

Our sons, Vincent Darrel Adams Jr. and Jeffrey Craig Adams, from Vincent and Mary Adams

2,000.00

Peter Marenakos, from Peter Hogan 50.00

Our parents, Red and Mary & Leo and Jeanette 100.00

Eleanor Coggins 100.00

My husband, Charles C. Pingry 50.00

Thomas A. Kirkland and Virginia Robertson Kirkland 100.00

Loved ones, from Kellie, Kay and Philip Blacklocke 50.00

Our parents Milly and David Francer, from Doug and Janet Patterson 100.00

Our parents from Lee and Sharon with love 100.00

Richard S. Merritt from his family 25.00

Gibbie Sanderson from Faye 25.00

Our son, Leonard Brown, from Bill and Jean Brown 25.00

Our son, William Brown, from Bill and Jean Brown 25.00

Our son, Byron Brown, from Bill and Jean Brown 25.00

My brother, Dennis Gibson, from Jean Brown 25.00

B.J. Vickers from the 1st Thusday Lunch Bunch 280.00

Ed Holst and Alison Holst 100.00

James Gilbert Baldwin, Ellen Douglas Baldwin, Robert Latané Montague and Hess Jenkins Montague 200.00

Our grandson, Christopher William Keil 100.00

Margie Ann Ping, from Mr. and Mrs. George Matthews 25.00

Jelte and Josephine Jansons 250.00

The Barske family, Mom and Dad, brothers Bill and Buck 100.00

Chet and Lucretia Nowak & Evelyn and Dixon Hardy from Carolyn and Dan Hardy 50.00

Capt. and Mrs. T. Pinckney Lowndes, Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Blanton, & Col and Mrs. Robert G. Blanton 500.00

Our dear friend Bill Richter, from The Birthday Club (Ann, Beth B., Beth L., Elizabeth, Laura, Mary, Page, Sandy and Susan) 100.00

Louise Lawrence, Mary Toler and Louis, from Donna, Stan, Kate, Allison and Lance 140.00

Our sons, with love, Dan Hundley and Jamie Richards 250.00

Friends: Joe Bishop, Henry Conner, Bob Bott, C.C. Pearce, Julian Buxton, Dick Luke, Joe Frank Garner, Ashton Phillips, Buddy Rumble, Graham Smith and Arden Lemon 200.00

Eloise Smith and other loved ones, gone but not forgotten, from Bullard Family 40.00

Michael Hamilton Rawl 100.00

Our loving parents, Hal and Jeanne Frampton 100.00

Rev. James M. Woods and Norene Sellers, from Jim and Brenda Woods 100.00

Joseph F. Smoak Sr. and Tony H. Smoak, from his family 400.00

Jean Stamper Smith and Linda Smart Smith Dodd, from their family and friends 20.00

Geoff Turner - son, brother, and friend, from Christine Warnquist 50.00

Our parents, Anna and John Lazarchick & Helen Sophy 100.00

Margaret Saldutte and Miriam Newton 25.00

Our Little Angel, love Mommy and Daddy 100.00

Channel 5's "Hurricane Charlie" Hall from Charlie's boys: Jack P., Mel S., Gus B., Jim O., Bill S., Tommy H., and C.E.H. Jr. 25.00

My wife, Ann Boyles 100.00

Daniel Ellis Hay Jr. 25.00

Charles V. Bennett 50.00

Betty L. Croft 200.00

George Wohlleben 50.00

Robert and Eleanor Frye 100.00

Dot H. Smith from Paul Cuzzell 10.00

E.H. Carraway Jr. 100.00

The following donations were mistakenly combined in Tuesday's Good Cheer Fund. Here is the correct listing:

Our beloved parents: Buzz Buzzelli, Tai Bridgham, Downs Byrd, Red Conklin, Horace Crosby, Caroline Dickinson, Ted Owen, Ralph Renken, John Saboe and Bill Tamsberg 150.00

Melvin M. Chassereau, John D. and Beulah W. Rials, John Jr. and Violet L. Rials, Rebecca Marchant, Edward and Sudie W. Player, James E. Player and Beth O'Quinn Player150.00

TODAY'S TOTAL 11,985.00

PREVIOUS TOTAL $115,060.46

YEAR TO DATE $127,045.46

LAST YEAR $79,992.76