A Titusville resident with the remains of a Manchester, England accent was ringing the Salvation Army bell outside the Northwest Savings Bank on the corner of W. Spring and South Franklin streets Friday afternoon. Gary Barnes and the Knights of Columbus have been volunteering on the weekends to ring bells in eight locations around the area. Barnes thanked folks as they dropped cash in the kettle. One man stopped and dropped in a wad of folding money and said he volunteered one year to be a bell ringer. "I couldn't even get my friends to look at me," he said, indicating donations were hard to come by. But Barnes, located outside the bank, seemed to be having pretty good success.
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