Saturday, April 20, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
CANTON -- The St. Lawrence County Office for the Aging reports that they are not affiliated with a woman seeking $25 donations for “blessing bags” for senior citizens. On her Facebook and other …
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CANTON -- The St. Lawrence County Office for the Aging reports that they are not affiliated with a woman seeking $25 donations for “blessing bags” for senior citizens.
On her Facebook and other pages Verena Jones says she is working with the Office for the Aging, but Director Andrea Montgomery is not comfortable with Jones’s statements.
“Ms. Jones did contact the office to state that she and her family were going to be making bags to give to senior citizens. However, Ms. Jones did not state that she would be seeking monetary donations from the public for this project,” Montgomery said in a press statement Tuesday.
“I would not have sanctioned such actions,” Montgomery said.
Jones sent North Country This Week a press release claiming a connection with the Office for the Aging, but we have since updated our story.
Jones is soliciting $25 donations for the “blessing bags” containing a number of items she has chosen including a brand of lotion she sells as an “independent consultant” with a cosmetics distributor.
