HURON This years annual Homes for the Holidays event at Slumberland Furniture was held on Thursday, Dec. 12, with participants and partners gathering to distribute beds.
This year, ten mattress sets complete with mattress and frame, protector, sheets, quilts and pillows were given out to participants with Community Counseling, Beadle County Drug Court, and the Hope House.
Hurons Slumberland store partners with United Way Heartland Region each year, while Mount Calvary Churchs Lutheran Women Mission League provides sheets and handmade quilts, and American Lutheran Women purchase pillows for each recipient.
For the past 19 years, Slumberland Furniture has teamed up with the United Way Heartland Region to find people in our community without a bed to sleep on. This is a program that has been going on since 1991 in communities that have Slumberland stores across the Midwest, and when the Huron store opened in 2006, it was brought to Huron.
Slumberland store owner Rich Bragg went to the United Way director at the time, Rhonda Kludt, to inquire about a partnership.
The relationship we have had with the United Way Heartland Region, and the partnership for this program, has made a world of difference. You would think it would be easy to find people in need of a mattress, but in other communities we have seen that isnt always the case, says Bragg. To be able to work with the many partner agencies that the United Way has in our community and find the people who are really in need means so much for this program, and helps us to do the most good in our community
Since becoming a part of the Huron community Slumberland of Huron has donated over $100,000 in brand new bedding and accessories to people in need in the Huron community.
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