The Bowling Junior Womans Club and WBKO-13 are asking the community to help keep needy children and their families warm with the 13th annual Coats for Kids campaign. In the program, which will continue through Dec. 31, people take new or gently used coats to any Coats for Kids drop-off locations. The coats are cleaned by Big B Cleaners and are distributed by Bowling Green Junior Womans Club volunteers. Past recipients have included The Salvation Army, Bowling Green Boys and Girls Club, Girls Inc. and area school family resource centers, said Audrey Meany, co-chairwoman of Coats for Kids. We distribute them through charitable organizations and leave it to the charitable organizations how they go out from there, she said. Donations shouldnt be limited to small sizes, Meany said. Some of the children who receive the coats wear adult sizes. We encourage people to donate all sizes for our campaign, she said. Meany said she remembers how happy Bowling Green Junior Womans Club members were about the 100 coats they received in the campaigns first year in 1990.It has been exciting to watch it grow from 100 coats, she said of the campaign, which garnered more than 1,700 coats last year. People watch for it every year. They start calling us. Its wonderful to have so many businesses want to participate. We appreciate all our supporters and sponsors. Some schools and businesses will have extra activities to celebrate Coats for Kids and encourage participation. Warren County Schools will campaign at the schools Nov. 11-16, Meany said. The special dates for Coats for Kids in schools began in 1999 at Greenwood High School. We got 700 coats at Greenwood High, she said. Last year, we expanded the program to all the schools. Students will receive an extra incentive to donate coats. McDonalds has donated coupons for a free McFlurry for each child who donates a coat, she said. As part of WBKOs Helping Your Hometown project, Greenview Hospital will do Coats for Kids campaigning on Nov. 16, while Leachman Buick GMC Truck will do it Nov. 23.Rick Wilson, area executive of BB&T, said he and the banks staff enjoy participating in Coats for Kids and are happy that the community has such good participation. The way the community comes together and helps everybody else is one plus that makes this community a great place to live, he said. What better can we do as a community and organization than to help the children?Meany agreed. We couldnt do this without the support of the community, she said. If folks didnt come out and donate, it wouldnt be worth a lot. Drop-off locations for this years campaign include all branches of BB&T Bank and Big B Cleaners, First Baptist Church Preschool, Christ Episcopal Church, State Street United Methodist Church, Living Hope Baptist Church, WBKO, Elliott Pediatric Dentistry, Graves-Gilbert Clinic, Bowling Green Christian Academy and Malchow & Lawless Orthodontics.