All the woman asks for on her Empty Stocking Fund application is a kerosene space heater. A staff member at the social service agency where the woman filled out her application wrote that a heater would help the woman keep her husband at home and not have to send him to a nursing home. If so, please call 829-6562 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. and ask for Susan Mills. She will arrange to deliver the heater to the couple. The Empty Stocking Fund is not intended to pay off debts, to provide long-term assistance for chronic illness or physical handicaps or to provide luxury gifts.
Priority is given to families with children and to the elderly.
No money is used for administering the fund. Everyone who receives help from the fund must complete an application. No assistance is given without a review of the need by the agency taking the application and the Empty Stocking Fund Committee. These agencies are not affiliated with the Empty Stocking Fund. Please do not call The Record or the agencies for status of the applications, as this only delays the processing of requests.