DMA Brightens Up Holidays With Gift Cards

The holidays will be a bit brighter this year due to the generosity of the Duluth Merchants Association. As part of the admission for the Dec. 6 DMA Christmas Party, members were asked to donate gift cards for grocery and discount stores to Hands of Christ – A Duluth Cooperative Ministry to distribute to needy families. Sunny Ramsay, left, outgoing DMA president, and Jim Johnson, right, incoming DMA president, hand over a basket filled with gift cards totaling nearly $300 to Mary Roberts, center, the Hands of Christ ministry director.

The DMA also gave a check to Duluth Nancy Harris and Duluth City Coucilman Jim Dugan in the amount of $3,700 to cover the cost of lighting the Living Honorarium on the Duluth Town Green. The DMA raised funds for the lighting by sponsoring a Light Up! The Honorarium motorcycle ride. A DMA member donated the difference. Ramsay announced that CPA Harold Stamey was named DMA Merchant of the Year because he was always there when help was needed. Boudreaux’s Cajun Café and Market provided a fish and seafood spread for the party.

The party was held at the in Duluth where “Dad’s Christmas Miracle” is currently playing. The cast presented scenes from the play to entertain the DMA. Below: On the set for the play are Bill and Sheri Eppright of Positive Public Image Inc., John Laszlo, who plays Grandpa Murphy in the play; Chuck Mason, who plays Dad; New Dawn Theatre President and Artistic Director Sherry Ingbritsen, and Glenn Sarver, a DMA past president.