As we continue into the holiday season, the Salvation Army is
still looking for bell ringers throughout the area. In Winona,
there are three locations.  The kettle organizer tells us all
too often the buckets are sitting empty which means the
organization is losing upwards of $2,000 a day.  Eventually, she
hopes to expand to five locations in the city, but can't until
she finds more volunteers. "When people are at the kettles, the
donations have been wonderful, the money coming in has been
great, so it's not that people aren't donating, it's just we
don't have the people at the kettles that we are needing," said
kettle coordinator Holly Puetz.  90% of the money dropped into
the kettles stays local which was estimated to be about $17,000
last year.  If you'd like to volunteer, you can call Holly at
(507) 458-8445.