CHAIRMAN AND managing director of The Gleaner Company, Oliver Clarke and Editor-in Chief, Garfield Grandison will be among the team who will be assisting the Salvation Army in its annual Christmas Kettle Drive by taking to the streets today.

They will be in strategic selling locations from 6.30 a.m. to 8 a.m. today to encourage customers to buy the newspaper and/or make a donation to the Salvation Army officer, operating with the team.

The company will donate to the Salvation Army $2 from each copy of The Gleaner sold on December 2.

Mr. Clarke will be stationed at the Tom Redcam Avenue/Camp Road intersection with Major Devon Haughton, the Salvation Army's eastern divisional commander. Mr. Grandison will sell at the corner of Lady Musgrave Road, close to Vale Royal.

Other managers forming The Gleaner team include deputy managing director, Christopher Roberts, who will be stationed at Barbican Road and Wedcombe Avenue; circulation manager, Norman Marshall (beside RBTT Bank in Half-Way Tree); Mavis Belasse, information systems manager (Knutsford Boulevard/ Trafalgar Road); Karin Cooper, corporate affairs (Lady Musgrave/Hopefield Road); Yvonne Senior, advertising manager (Manor Park); Collin Bourne, company secretary (Mona Road); Ian Roxborough, print manager (Oliver Road/Shortwood); Marlene Davis, manager of Go-Jamaica (Oxford Road/Old Hope Road) and Anthony O'Gilvie (Washington Boulevard/Molynes Road).

The Salvation Army has a programme that feeds street people, funds AIDS hostels such as the one at Peter's Lane, downtown Kingston. It also provides 700 meals daily and distributes to those in need with assistance from Food for the Poor.

Published in the Gleaner, December 2, 2003.