NewsChannel 7′s Share Your Holidays campaign is having an effect on a global scale. One dedicated WSAW viewer in Australia completely changed his career path because of it and as the campaign continues a little differently this year, he encourages people to give because it provides joy to more than just the receiver.
St. Stephan Lutheran Church of Wausau donated $1030 to Share You Holidays Wednesday, pushing the total of the yearly fundraiser and food drive to more than $3300 or more then 9900 meals.
This year's grand total for Share Your Holidays is $97,540 and tons of food. A new record. Half will go to the Salvation Army and half to the Neighbors' Place food pantries. The food will go to Peyton's Promise for dozens of other food pantries.
As the Wausau East Lumberjacks and the Wausau West Warriors squared off on the court, parents stacked food donations for Share Your Holidays in the lobby.
WSAW/WZAW's annual food drive and fundraiser starts Friday at the Wausau Holiday Parade. Please bring a nonperishable food or money to the parade to donate.
It's now easier than ever to donate to Share Your Holidays. We've created a gofundme page. All of the money you donate still goes to local food pantries.
NewsChannel 7 and WZAW's annual food drive and fundraiser, Share Your Holidays starts it's 15th year Friday at the Wausau Holiday Parade. Please bring a non-perishable food along to the parade for a donation.
Our annual food drive and fundraiser-- Share Your Holidays-- raised a record amount, $90,942.70. All for the Salvation Army and Neighbors' Place food pantries.
More generous donations on Thursday (12/15/16) helped the Share Your Holidays total to reach just less than $29,000. All the money raised goes to the Salvation Army and Neighbor's Place food pantries.
The latest contributions to Share Your Holidays bring the total to more than $15,000. Our goal by Friday (12/16/16) is to raise $37,000. All of it goes to the Salvation Army and Neighbor's Place food pantries.
A $1748 gift from Bob and Randy's Bar in Wausau Monday helped boost the total donation to $12,179.93. All of it goes to the Salvation Army and Neighbor's Place
More than $660 and a truck full of food donated during Wausau Holiday Parade, the official kick off of Share Your Holidays. Newschannel 7 and Fox WZAW's annual food drive and fund raiser.
The Wausau Holiday Parade officially kicks off the holiday season for the Wausau Area, but it also is the beginning of NewsChannel 7's Share Your Holidays campaign.
With matching grants the total in 2015 came to $63,432. That's more than $3000 above the record amount donated in 2014. NewsChannel 7 viewers also donated more non-perishable food than ever before.
As the Medick's, a family that created a local charity, start mentally preparing for their big move out of Wisconsin, they're confident that Peyton's Promise will continue in the area.
NewsChannel 7's annual food drive and fundraiser, Share Your Holidays, enters it's final day Friday. You've donated $25,000. We're hoping to reach $30,000 to reach the maximum level of matching donations.
NewsChannel 7's annual food drive and fundraiser, Share Your Holidays is at the half way point, with a total of $12,020. The money goal is $30,000, the amount of matching grants for 2015.
The unseasonably warm weather made it a beautiful night to get outside and enjoy the Wausau Holiday Parade on Friday. Young and old flocked to the streets of Downtown Wausau to take in all the sights and sounds of the season to continue a tradition with their families. A big part of that tradition goes for a great cause.
Share Your Holidays is NewsChannel 7's annual food drive and fund raiser for the Salvation Army and The Neighbor's Place food pantries. This year we're teaming up with Peyton's Promise, a local organization.
A big thank you to our first official donors to this year's Share Your Holidays. The Marathon County Farm Bureau donated $400 Tuesday (12/1/15) Tuesday evening.
The 2015 edition of Share Your Holidays, NewsChannel 7's annual fundraiser and food drive, starts Friday (12/4/15). Once again we'll be pushing grocery carts to collect donations you bring to the Wausau Holiday Parade.
Thank you for the incredible outpouring of generosity during this year's Celebrity Gas Pump for Share Your Holidays. You donated more then $2000 and a whole bunch of food.
Members of a Kronenwetter church, a Bevent service club, Navy veterans and WPS workers are among the latest to make major donations to Share Your Holidays.
For 11 years the generosity from the people of north central Wisconsin has help put meals on the table for hundreds of families in need during the holiday season through NewsChannel 7's Share Your Holidays fundraiser.
Two longtime supporters of Share Your Holidays are back again this year. The Glue Crew and Marathon County Farm Bureau both donated hundreds of dollars Thursday night.
Hundreds of people are expected to turnout Friday evening for the annual Wausau Holiday Parade. Wausau Area Events said its the city's longest running tradition.
NewsChannel 7 viewers came through in a big way for Share Your Holidays in 2013, donating a record $56,494.06. All of it will go to the Salvation Army and Neighbor's Place food pantries.
Donations poured in to start the final day of Share Your Holidays, NewsChannel 7's annual food drive and fundraiser for the Salvation Army and Neighbor's Place food pantries. Including a $5000 donation from the Wausau Firefighter's Association.
The final day of NewsChannel 7's annual food drive and fundraiser, Share Your Holidays begins with the traditional make donation get a cookie from Jeff Thelen's Mom.
The Share Your Holidays account reached a nice level Wednesday (12/18/13) $10,000! But there are still a couple days left and remember, donations will be matched up to $35K.
Thank you to everyone at Brainard Funeral Home of Wausau for your donation to Share Your Holidays. The owner and workers chipped together for a $500 contribution. The workers also gave about a dozen bags of food.
The AM edition of the annual Celebrity Gas Pump for Share Your Holidays added $1104 to the Share Your Holidays fund. Dozens of bags of food were donated as well.
Thanks to a huge bake sale, the workers at Greenheck Fan's Number 5 plant donated $1000 to Share Your Holidays. That's NewsChannel 7's annual fundraiser and food drive for The Neighbor's Place and Salvation Army food pantries.
Workers at 3M donated $575 and employees of Wisconsin Public Service Corp. are helping out again this year with a $500 donation to Share Your Holidays.
The big truck that reminds people about Share Your Holidays now sits in front of the NewsChannel 7 studios on Grand Ave. in Wausau. And the Celebrity Gas Pump returns Friday (12/13)
Mother Nature tried, but she couldn't dampen the Spirit of the Season Friday night in Wausau. Wausau Events canceled the Holiday Parade because of cold weather, but the tree lighting and warming party went off without a hitch.
The Glue Crew is coming through once again for Share Your Holidays. During it's monthly meeting Thursday evening, Wausau's plastic modeling club made a $350 donation to the fundraiser and food drive.
NewsChannel 7's annual food drive and fundraiser, Share Your Holidays shattered a record in 2012. With the matching grants, donors gave more then $44,000 and hundreds of bags of food. All of it goes to the Salvation Army and Neighbor's Place.
The final day of Share Your Holidays begins with a classic. The make a donation, get a cup of coffee and cookie homemade by Jeff Thelen's mom. It runs from 4:30am to 7am Friday at the NewsChannel 7 studios on Grand Ave. in Wausau.
Thank you to numerous organizations and businesses who have made donations to Share Your Holidays this week! Our total is now $6422. But that's well short of the goal of $25,000, for which we get matching grants.
Check Out Hunger, the grocery bagging event for Share Your Holidays raised $400 and lots of food. Members of the NewsChannel 7 staff bagged people's groceries at Trig's in Wausau in return for a donation to the food drive/fund raiser.
The new evening edition of the Celebrity Gas Pump raised $602.25 and a car full of food for Share Your Holidays Friday evening. Combined with the traditional morning event and the total is $1125 and three cars full of food.
Workers are putting the finishing touches on the new JX Truck Center building in Kronenwetter. It opens next week. Meanwhile, the truck dealership and repair shop is making a $500 donation to Share Your Holidays.
The first total for the first few days of Share Your Holidays is in. Thanks for the great start of $1593! But we have a long way to go to reach our goal of $25,000 to get all the matching grant money. Some big events are coming up this weekend to help out.
The Celebrity Gas Pump for Share Your Holidays returns this Friday, December 14. For a donation, NC7 staff members will pump your gas and you'll get a free car wash and cup of coffee. It's 5am to 9am at the Wagner Shell on Schofield Ave. in Weston.
Friday morning, NewsChannel 7 anchor Jeff Thelen and Sam Stevenson from The Wausau Truck Center delivered grocery carts to the drop off locations for Share Your Holidays.
It's time for our annual Share Your Holidays food drive and fundraiser! It starts Friday night at the Wausau Holiday Parade that starts at 6:30. All you have to do is bring non-perishable food and monetary donations along with you. Then, members of our NewsChannel 7 staff will collect those donations as we walk along the parade route. All of the food and money go to the Salvation Army and Neighbors' Place.
The big truck that rolls in the Wausau Holiday Parade got all dressed up for the big party Thursday. It'll help NewsChannel 7 kick off our annual Share Your Holidays food drive and fundraiser.
NewsChannel 7's annual food drive and fundraiser, Share Your Holidays, kicks off Friday, December 7 during the Wausau Holiday Parade. Our staff members will take your food and money donations as we walk along the parade route.
It was another great year for Share Your Holidays! You donated more than $36,000 and truckloads full of food for the Salvation Army and Neighbor's Place food pantries. Here's a special thank you from SYH Chairman Jeff Thelen
The 2011 edition of Share Your Holidays will come to a close Thursday. We'll be giving the ceremonial check to the Salvation Army and Neighbor's Place during a live broadcast Thursday on Newschannel 7 at 5.
Newschannel 7 would like to send a special Share Your Holidays thank you to the Sunday school at Saint Peter's Lutheran Church of Wausau. They sent a check for $35.00, money collected in November during "Be Thankful Month."
If you've been searching for the holiday spirit, Friday night just may your opportunity to find it. The Wausau Holiday Parade, filled with the lights and sounds of the season, will start at 6:30pm Friday evening. It goes from Marathon Park to the 400 Block.
Cookies and coffee for Share Your Holidays returns to Sunrise 7 Friday morning. If you stop by the NewsChannel 7 studeos on Grand Ave. in Wausau and make a donation during the morning news show, you'll get a cup of coffee and cookie baked by Jeff Thelen's mom.
There are just two days left in Share Your Holidays and our annual food drive and fundraiser is really picking up steam.
The Fitzke's of Wausau dropped off a $500 check Wednesday.
Donations of food to the annual NewChannel 7 Share Your Holidays fundraiser and food drive are way up this year. But money donations are down from the 2009 event.