The Salvation Army kettle drive is winding down with only a few more mail-in donations expected in the next few days.

Thompson Director Roy Bladen says they raised close to $45,000, just over half of their $80,000 goal.

Despite the shortfall, Bladen says they won’t be making any changes to their services, at least not yet:

"We have significant food on hand to keep us going through that period and then we’ll have to start buying some and so forth, you know, the way it goes. We don’t anticipate too many changes probably until about July or August".

One of those changes may include going from regular hampers to bi-monthly hampers.

Bladen thanked all the residents who contributed to the drive in any way.