Editorial
Dunked for a cause

The sun was warm and the ground was dry, other than around the dunk tank, so a large number of people came out for the event.

The sounds of splashing water, laughter and talking filled the air on Academy Hill in Westminster on Sunday, Aug. 12, as the town's Neighbors Helping Neighbors organization held its twentieth Town Benefit.

The organization made between $12,000 and $15,000 in the course of just six hours, something that is hard to do for a group that serves a small number of people and collects donations from within that same community.

Neighbors Helping Neighbors is one of a large number of local charity organizations that work and collect in our communities. It is hard to balance the needs of people with ones own ability to give.

But we should also congratulate the organizers of the Town Benefit for a job well done. It is easy to give when we get something in return but it is harder to give when all of the good is given somewhere else.