Shop With A Cop
What's Shop with a Cop? The program is designed to help children in need during the holidays. With the funds raised, local police officers take kids who are victims of unfortunate circumstances to stores to pick out Christmas gifts for themselves or family members. Our local shop with a cop is a joint venture involving the City of Warren Police, Conewango Township Police, Youngsville Borough Police, Warren County Sheriff's Office & Warren County Adult Probation.
Warren Midtown Motors is a drop-off location for Toys for Tots! Responsible for delivering millions of toys to underprivileged children around the country, Toys for Tots has spent decades helping to make the holidays even more special. If you'd like to drop off toys for a child in need, you're welcome to come to our Toys for Tots drop-off location in Warren, PA. We're proud to help bring toys to local children in our community through this amazing organization.
Local Food Drives
This year, our team donated more than 1,200 pounds back to the community we call home. Every pound went to neighbors, local organizations, and families right here, because the people who shape our community deserve our support.
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army on Beech Street in Warren PA not only helps bring faith to our community but provides countless meals and basic human necessitates for those who have been impacted economically. The Salvation Army of Warren Co. also provides second-hand items to individuals in our community who have had house fires, floods, and other natural disasters. Bless you, Salvation Army, and thank you for doing great work in our community.
4th of July Parade
For the third time in five years, the Warren County 4th of July Parade will be a Temple Function for the Erie Zem Zem Shrine Temple. A Temple Function is one that brings out the parade units in force. In fact, the Erie Temple is bringing enough units that the parade went from three divisions to four, according to Kelly Thompson of the Warren County 4th of July Organization."We're helping to make the parade longer and better," Zem Zem Hornet and the Temple's parade committee chairman for Warren County Mark Zaffino said.In turn, the parade organization helps Shriners Hospitals for Children – Erie. Those three parades have raised $27,000 for worthy causes within Shriners Hospital.Those dollars go to help kids, Zaffino said."This money goes back to Potentate's wife's First Lady Project — specially built motorized wheelchairs for kids," Zaffino said."It's a pleasure to help the Shriners Hospital," Kelly Thompson said. "It's always been a pleasure to work with the Shriners," Bill Thompson of the 4th of July Organization said. The organization did not know far in advance that it would be able to put on a parade this year. "In the first part of May was when we decided to go with it," Kelly Thompson said. Gov. Tom Wolf announced that masking and other restrictions related to COVID-19 would be removed as of June 28 — just in time for the 4th of July. "We've had a very good response, especially after COVID-19," Kelly Thompson said. Many other regional parades have been canceled. Zaffino talked to Kelly Thompson about the possibility of the parade being a Temple Function. She looked into it and formally asked the Erie Zem Zem Potentate. Once the decision was made, the Potentate directed all available units in the Temple to participate, according to Chief Rabban Bob Hukill. This year's Temple Function joins the previous two at the parade as the top three in terms of raising funds ever in the Erie Temple, Zaffino said. In addition to the funds raised through the efforts of the 4th of July Organization, Zaffino went out looking for donations and found Kersey and Associates PC of Warren, ADM Welding and Fabrication LLC, Warren Midtown Motors Inc., Cochran and Zandi Lumber LLC, and Warren Radiator and Gas Tank Repair. The Shriners expressed their thanks to McDonald's for sponsoring breakfast for their many parade participants.