If you get a phone call soliciting a donation for the Good Samaritan Inn homeless shelter, and the caller asks you to leave a cheque in your mailbox, it’s legit.
Executive director Ed Ligocki says the Inn has been using the same telemarketer and the same collection method for the past dozen years.
“He hires a driver to go to the houses and it’s during the days and most people work,” Ligocki says. “So it’s easier to put it in the mailbox and leave a receipt.
“There is no other way. If we want to collect any amount of money to run our organization, I mean if a person comes home at six or seven o’clock or has supper, the driver is already gone at four. I mean they have a life, too.”
Ligocki says when the cheque is picked up, a receipt replaces it in the mailbox.