Keep the holiday spirit throughout the year

This is the time of year that we all seem more generous with the holiday spirit around us. According to an article from USA Today, about 34 percent of all charitable giving is done in the last three months of the year. Of those donations, about 18 percent are given in December alone.

The idea of giving to those less fortunate than us is great, but we should be doing it yearlong instead of the last couple months of the calendar year.

Here at the Cheney Free Press, we started “A Year of Giving” in honor of this idea. Our hope was to raise money for local charities in the West Plains and donate t...