Warming the View group to distribute coats Saturday

SUNNY VIEW — As winter seems to be bearing down on the Foothills, neighbors will help neighbors on Saturday by distributing coats and blankets to anyone in need.

Warming the View, a grassroots organization formed several years ago that has since expanded, will sponsor the event. The distribution will be from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday at McGuinns Store on Highway 9 in Sunny View.

“No questions asked. No money accepted. No judgment,” said organizer Dee O’Brien. “Just community supporting community. It takes us all.”

Warming the View began with O’Brien and Lisa Moser wanting to help people in the winter in the Sunny View community. The organization has grown over the years, and now distributes new coats to children at local schools.

This year before Christmas, Warming the View partnered with Belk to get discounts on new coats and delivered 51 coats to Sunny View Elementary School and Saluda Elementary School.

Warming the View has also partnered with True Ridge, a local nonprofit, so all monetary donations are now tax deductible.

Gently used and new coats were collected this year at McGuinns, Larkins in Columbus and Mountainbrook Vineyard.

“We are beyond words and full of gratitude at the outpouring of support,” O’Brien said. “Thank you, True Ridge, and all who have generously helped us reach our goal.”