Nicole Taccchite-Assistant Director of Marketing for Discount Drug Mart presents a $68,900 check to Coats For Kids. Photo: Photo courtesy of Discount Drug Mart
INDEPENDENCE, OH - Discount Drug Mart presented a check for $68,900 to Coats for Kids on Thursday during "Cleveland's Morning News with Wills & Snyder" on WTAM 1100. The money was raised by selling paper coats for $1 at area stores. Coat For Kids Director Debbie Martinko said, "We really appreciate the support from Discount Drug Mart! The sale of paper coats helps us buy brand new coats for kids who really need them." The campaign was supported by both WKYC-TV 3 and WTAM 1100.
In 1981, local radio station employees became aware of a large number of children missing school in the winter because they did not have warm coats. That November, Coats for Kids-Cleveland was founded when the radio station began soliciting donations of new or like-new winter coats.
That first campaign filled the studio and subsequent campaigns brought in even more coats, along with monetary donations used to purchase new coats.
Since then, millions of dollars have been raised and hundreds of thousands of news and like-new coats have been distributed to children in need in northeast Ohio.
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