Donations Exceed 1,000 In Norwich Children's Coat Drive: Report

NORWICH, CT — More than 1,000 winter coats have been collected this fall in the annual Rotary Club of Norwich's children's coat drive, generously started more than 15 years ago by Olde Tymes Restaurant owner Rodney Green and his wife, Lucille.

The coat drive's early years saw the donation of a few hundred coats per year, and the effort now has grown to the current numbers, reports the Norwich Bulletin.

To buy the coats from the Burlington Coat Factory, nonprofit Operation Warm and local vendors, the Rotary Club raised $18,000. The coats go to hundreds of Norwich school children, and the St. Vincent DePaul Place meal site, according to the publication.

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