Baskets to be distributed Saturday

The annual Christmas Basket program will conclude with the distribution of baskets Saturday at the Food Shelf, 301 N. Elm in Creston.

Creston Kiwanis has had food drives to collect food that will go to assist those who are in need in Union County. Grocery carts were at the food banks and participating banks for people to leave their nonperishable items. Those donations will be divided among the Food Shelf, MATURA and the Crest Area Food Pantry.

Monetary donations can still be left at the Creston News Advertiser, 503 W. Adams. Using a smartphone, organizers said people can open the camera app on their phone, hold their camera over the QR code and a web link will pop up to click on and it will take the donor directly to the Christmas Basket donation portal. The QR code is the graphic included in this story.

It can be anonymous if they choose and they can include a personal message also.

The Christmas Basket fund will also have $10 certificates in the baskets for perishable food items that can be redeemed at Hy-Vee, Fareway or Walmart, all in Creston.

First Presbyterian Church Women, $200.

His Helpers Sunday School Class, Cromwell Church, $50.

Betty Abel, $100 ‘In Memory of Chet and Rod Abel’

Ed and Sherry Knuth, $300. ‘In Memory of Ernst and Edeltraut Knuth, Wilfred Knuth, Dean Hartman, Maxine Hartman and Scott Hartman’

Creston Tuba Christmas, $263.

Theodore J. Martens Post 1797 Veterans of Foreign Wars, $400.

Larry Proud, $25.

Dick and Peg Anderson, $100.

Progressive Chautaugua Circle, $40.

Ken and Carol Sharp, $250.

In Memory of Kevin, Amy, Sterling and Adrianna Sharp, $250.

Gerald Thomsen, $50. ‘In Memory of Barb Thomsen’

De Weeda, $150.

William and Angel Sorden, $50.

Crest Area For Life, $100.

Rodney and Rosalie Culbertson, $100.

Congregational United Church of Christ, $450.

Union County Farm Bureau, $50.

In Memory of Cecil, Violet and Larry Antisdel, $50.

Craig Butcher, $100.

In Memory of Eldon Vandewater, $50.

Robert and Pat Butcher, $100.

Carol and Mike Brentnall, $100. ‘In Memory of Loved Ones’

Gayle Rueter, $100.

Dean and Dana Michaelson, $100. ‘In Memory of Scott Clem’

Tyler Insurance, $500.

$4,028