KETTLE CALL: The recession is taking a...

KETTLE CALL: The recession is taking a toll on the Salvation Army’s bell-ringer campaign, a holiday fixture for decades (B1). . . . A more recent, year-round fixture--panhandlers--may also be a factor, said Sherryle Morasky of the army’s Oxnard chapter. Donors are weary of always seeing hands out, she said. . . . Morasky’s bell-ringing days are over, but she still remembers the experience: “San Francisco is the coldest place on Earth.”