Posted on 03/29/2008 11:24:00 PM PDT by patriciaruth
Welcome to the 2008 thread of the Merry Band of Patriots!
Our grassroots group of troop supporters started in the summer of 2001 by sending VHS movies and Snickers candy bars to the 101st Airborne and later the 10th Mountain at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo. We are not an organized charity as no one of us has the time or energy to do all that paperwork, and any contributions made are not tax deductible.
Our specialty in the past has been movies, books, snacks, personal care items, holiday decorations and some appliances like DVD players, microwaves, and Playstations; and we have sent many hundreds of movies to various bases. Normally we adopt a whole unit and send care packages to a contact in that unit who distributes the goodies to all in the unit. When our adopted units rotate back stateside, they leave the items which are not consumable for the use of their follow-on unit. Thus we have helped build up entertainment libraries throughout the war zones.
REVIEW OF 2006
In 2006 we entered our 6th year of sending care packages to our troops in war zones We adopted the follow-on PSYOP company at Bagram air base in Afghanistan and a follow-on Stryker Brigade company at Mosul in Iraq. We also adopted a new company of 141st Signal battalion in the 1st Armored Division that started at Tal Afar and was soon moved to Ramadi as a tip of the spear there in 2006, just after another adopted unit (Old Sarges unit) at Ramadi left. Here are a couple emails from Chris that say it all for what they went through there.
The bad news is that my team has been activated and now has a mission in downtown Ramadi, the most dangerous place in Iraq. June 15, 2006
can you say, BOMB MAGNET?!! -- June 16, 2006
[It didn't help that a reporter with a major news service helped the terrorists spot their RPG trajectories by publishing that one had fallen 20 feet short, resulting the next day in an RPG killing one of our contact's fellow soldiers.]
Last week another soldier and I were at our communication trucks when an RPG hit a humvee right outside our compound wall about 10 feet away. It rocked the trucks. We both opened the doors to our trucks to run inside when a 2nd RPG flew over the wall, through our camouflage net, bounced off the top of our trucks and hit the ground exploding right in front of us. I was closest, about 2 feet away. The blast threw us back into the trucks. The other guy only had his glasses knocked off. He got right back up and ran inside. I don't remember the exact details but I remember the blast throwing me back inside the truck and into the signal equipment. I think I was stunned and dazed because I sat there for a few minutes before I regained situational awareness and got the hell out of there. I suffered a concussions and some hearing loss. August 10, 2006
A lot of prayers were said for our guys at Ramadi, which is now a relatively peaceful city under Anbar Awakening, and our contacts are safely home.
In 2006 we were also glued to a couple companies of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Richardson in Alaska. (Most of the Brigade bases at Ft Wainwright.) Our adopted company in an SBCT the year before had been at Fallujah 2004 and then met evil face to face and endured some horrific times at Mosul (2004-2005). They witnessed atrocities to the civilian population by the terrorists and they experienced IED attacks and the mess hall bombing at FOB Marez that left some of our company very severely injured with one KIA.
Their follow-on unit and a sister company that we also adopted were faced with pacifying the towns along the Syrian border. In 2006 they moved out from Mosul into Ft Talafar, FOB Heider, COP Rawah, and other locations and brought a return to sanity for the locals from the murderous reign of radical and vicious terrorists enforcing their idea of Sharia law.
Alpha company of 4-23 infantry regiment of SBCT was out in the sand in tents at COP Rawah in the late winter and into the blistering summer heat with few amenities, so we concentrated on sending them packages.
In May of 2006, because I believed our adopted 172nd Stryker units and our 1AD unit at Tal Afar were going to be in an upcoming major offensive, I urged our troop supporters to send a great many care packages for the Fourth of July.
The Merry Band of Patriots responded by sending over a hundred care packages to our adopted units for the Fourth of July. More detail will be in one of the first posts of this new thread.
As feared, just as their tour ended and they were getting on planes to go back to Alaska, our two adopted 172nd SBCT companies had their tours extended and were turned around and sent to Baghdad in 120 degree heat. They pretty much arrived with just the clothes on their backs, having given away to their follow-on unit or mailed home most of their comfort and recreational items. They had to beg back their Stryker vehicles and unpack and reassemble and resight their weapons. Stryker at the special location (FOB Heider) went, too; and all were reunited again at FOB Stryker at Baghdad. Some 200 plus of them returned from Alaska.
We did an emergency mailing of packages to help reequip them with odds and ends, like surge protectors, flexible cold packs, pillows, sheets, soccer ball inflators, drink mix, DVD movies and boxed TV series. kattracks, bjcintennessee, daybreakcoming, DAVEY CROCKET, JaneAustin, Just A Nobody, SwatTeam, JoyjoyfromNJ, Enterprise, MJY1288, norton, JustAmy, Abigail Adams, DrDeb, Ros42, my optometrist, SENClander, patriciaruth all sent packages.
In return a few of us got T-shirts from the Apache Renegades (Juans Stryker unit), with their mascot [skull with Indian war bonnet] over a map of Iraq with this inscription:
OIF
Aug 05 Dec 06
Mosul Rawah Baghdad
STRIKE FEAR
We adopted a new unit in the Fall of 2006, an NPTT unit (National Police Transition Team) at Baghdad, on the recommended of Juan in the 172nd SBCT, because his brother Andy was a member of the unit. (Another brother was serving in Afghanistan. What a family!)
We also sent 19 packages to Kirkuk for Operation Crayon summer 2006 with school supplies for the local kids.
We communicated with and sent some packages to a few wounded warriors at a Fisher House for transitional treatment of those just discharged from Walter Reed.
We sent some packages to Irbil where some MI soldiers were liaisoning with servicemen from Republic of Korea, and some to a military intelligence unit at Kirkuk.
I sent a few packages to a Marine from my town who was near Baghdad.
2006 had its victories.
Zarqawi was killed at Mosul in June and Saddam was executed in Baghdad in December. But the bombing of the Golden Mosque at Samarra by al Qaida early in 2006 sparked escalating sectarian violence that almost derailed everything we had accomplished. Anbar Awakening (where the Iraqis in Anbar Province decided the al Qaida types were evil and decided to band with the Americans to get rid of them) and the Surge in 2007 put Iraq back on the freedom track and our soldiers closer to seeing a victory for their heroic and costly efforts in Iraq.
2006 had its sorrows.
2006 was a difficult year for me due to personal and family health problems and the beginning of kattrack's final illness, and thus I never posted a new 2007 thread with a summary of 2006. The advantage of the delay is that I was able to include much more detail about what was going on with our adopted units in 2006.
kattracks was our Fairy Godmother Dept for our soldiers in harm's way. In the first 9 months of 2006 she sent at least 92 care packages, many of them large. 7 went to Camp Ramadi and included an large inflatable wading pool, 9 went to Stryker at Mosul. 23 went to Tal Afar for general distribution to all the units there. 11 went to A company of Stryker at COP Rawah and then 11 more went to them after they were redeployed to Baghdad; 2 went to C company of Stryker at Ft Talafar and 11 more after they redeployed to Baghdad. 9 went to Kirkuk for Operation Crayon, and 9 went to Bagram air field, Afghanistan.
kattracks was given the precious gift of the Rapture in May, 2007, and we were left to carry on without her.
A few other special projects in 2006 that caught my eye as I was counting the packages from kattracks:
18 boxes of school supplies were sent in 2006 to Operation Crayon in Kirkuk by Coop, kattracks, Jane Austen, patriciaruth, my mother, Just A Nobody, Enterprise, DrDeb)
Two framed quit claim deeds to Zarqawis safe house were donated by doug from upland (together with copy of the ad on eBay) and sent to MI at Kirkuk and to 1AD at Ramadi.
Christmas, 2006, packages went to
Bagram (from Nina0113, Enterprise, daybreakcoming, airborne)
Baghdad:
10th Mountain: (from patriciaruth)
NPTT (from SENClander, daybreakcoming, with 11 Petzl headlamps sent directly)
a local Marine near Baghdad (patriciaruth)
4th ID north of Baghdad. (from patriciaruth requested by Abigail Adams)
Mosul: Stryker that was redeployed to Baghdad (from jtill, a Santa suit from patriciaruth, LittleBlogSpot, Freedom is eternally right, SwatTeam)
Ramadi: (from jtill, fanfan, SwatTeam, daybreakcoming and her sister, Merlinator, Abigail Adams, Enterprise, Just A Nobody)
Wounded:
Walter Reed (from Enterprise)
Mologne House for recovering wounded (from patriciaruth)
daybreakcoming sent pre-lit Christmas trees to Ramadi and Mosul, and her tree to Stryker at Mosul ended up at FOB Stryker in Baghdad as they were redeployed there just before Christmas. SENClander sent a pre-lit Christmas tree to NPTT at Baghdad.
Many care packages went out throughout 2006 which are not listed, like all those nina0133 sent to Bagram; but I have decided to cut the effort to list everything now so I can manage to get a new thread posted.
REVIEW OF 2007
In 2007 we sent out over 71 care packages to Afghanistan, over 105 to Stryker Brigade Combat Team units in the Surge to pacify Baghdad and environs, over 83 to NPTT units at Baghdad, and 4 to Balad for an estimate of over 263 packages sent to our adopted units in the war zones.
. The Surge meant our guys were on walk about more than they were at home base -- looking for and finding AI (al Qaida in Iraq) as well as enough caches of weapons to carpet California.
Afghanistan heated up and we ended the year 2007 sending a few care packages to a group holed up on high mountain ledge near the Pakistan border and scoring 400 plus fire fights with Taliban and al Qaida trying to infiltrate back into Afghanistan.
Last year 2007 we grieved at the loss of troop supporters kattracks, kayak, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, GretchenM (formerly GretchenEE), and the husbands of jtill and SENClander. We also continued to miss COB1 (AKA Texas Cowboy). God holds them all now in the palm of His infinite hand.
CREDITS:
AFGHANISTAN 2007:
BAGRAM Air Field near Kabul:
SENClander's sister sent 3 care packages in January to 315th PSYOP unit just before they left, and we [nina0133, Ros42, Abigail Adams, Just Amy, Jim Robinson, jtill, Paperdoll, PigRigger, manna, patriciaruth] sent 61 care packages (5 were large) to A Co, 13th PSYOP who took over and who have now departed early this year. These packages included 55 bags of beef jerky given to a Special Forces unit there from airborne, norton, Kitty Mittens and my mother. SW6906 sent most episodes of 3 TV series.
KANDAHAR: fanfan sent packages to Canadian troops
BATTLE Company on Pakistan-Afghan border:
Early in December 2007 we sent them 7 care packages for Christmas:
5 boxes of Hickory Farms cheeses (with 37.5 oz of cheese in each) from Enterprise and patriciaruth, a box with 17 packs with 1/2 lb of beef jerky from 4Godsoloved...Hegave, and a box with 14 Hickory Farms 14 oz beef sausages from by cshnorthcarolina.
Email to maine-iac7 from her grandson: We ate all of that cheese and meat, it was amazing. We really pushed through all of it fast. awesome. I cant find the box to tell who sent it - if you know, PLEASE thank them and let them know how great it was! Best food in some time! It means a lot to us that people back home know we are here. We;re so isolated that it really is awesome to know. It means a lot to all of us.
IRAQ 2007:
In 2007 we [[nina0133, SwatTeam, manna, jtill, patriciaruth, Enterprise, Ros42, Abigail Adams, mathluv, Just Amy, Jim Robinson] sent 66 care packages to our adopted Stryker unit at FOB Stryker at Baghdad up to their departure at the end of the summer --including a microwave [Enterprise], a Nintendo Wii [my optometrist], and 210 blue ice gel packs [SwatTeam and jtill].
We sent 39 care packages [deadhead, SENClander, JustAmy, Jim Robinson, Paperdoll, Abigail Adams, patriciaruth, 4Godsoloved...Hegave], 18 Petzl headlamps [Enterprise, jtill, manna, PigRigger, Kitty Mittens, MEG33] and a Christmas tree with ornaments [mass55th] to the current Stryker unit at Baqubah in Diyala Province, after we made contact in November.
To 3 NPTT (National Police Transition Team) units in Baghdad (at Camp Liberty) we [SENclander, patriciaruth, mass55th, Yaelle] sent 56 care packages including 22 Petzl headlamps [MEG33, SwatTeam, norton, Enterprise, jtill] and a Christmas tree [MJY1288] and ornaments. To one of these units (to Juan's brother Andy) we [Enterprise, Tunehead54, patriciaruth, my mother] also sent 12 boxes of school supplies for him to distribute to local school children.
To an NPTT unit at FOB Falcon near Baghdad that left in September we [patriciaruth, iceskater, Enterprise] sent 15 care packages and SW6906 sent most or all episodes of 5 TV series.
BALAD, Iraq 2007: 4 care packages sent for Christmas to mystery-ak's husband (doing another tour of duty).
FOB Prosperity, Iraq 2007: 1 care package
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Our many generous donors of checks, cash, money orders, Paypal, shopping cards, phone cards, etc are listed in the Accounting posts toward the end of our 2006 thread (which also covers 2007) and which can be linked from the post below. Many of our members are now trusted to mail their packages directly.
jtill, Let’s Roll, Twinkie:
Thank you very much for your kind donations towards the Beanie Baby shipments! I’ll keep you posted if we get any feedback from the Chaplain or the Troops about their use in the field!
Sincerely,
Uncle Miltie
Good evening, Patty.
I’m ashamed to admit that my boxes did not go out until today. We have had a crazy week. :(
I mailed 3 boxes today ...
Box #1
56 3oz size microwave popcorn
Box #2
26 3oz size microwave popcorn
3 boxes peppermint sticks (15 sticks per box) not candy canes
Box #3
100 individual packages of Swiss Miss hot cocoa mix
8 3oz size microwave popcorn
1 box peppermint sticks (15 sticks per box) not candy canes.
Jim helped with these boxes.
God Bless and Protect our Troops.
Hey, they will love getting that great stuff for New Years, even if it doesn’t make it by Christmas.
Those are great boxes. I’m particularly glad to see the peppermint sticks as I never got my act together and forgot to hunt for some, as I had them on my list last month.
They’ll keep my last two boxes less lonely; maybe they’ll all show up together.
Thank you and Jim so much for remembering our troops at Kandahar. Please God, protect and keep them.
Thank you’s to JustAmy and Jim Robinson who sent out 3 care packages with cocoa mix, microwave popcorn and peppermint sticks a few weeks before Christmas, see post 562.
Thank you, also, to SwatTeam who ordered several large tubs of party mix sent out to our adopted base at Kandahar in time for the Superbowl on February 6.
If anyone can send a care package for either the Superbowl or for Valentines, please let me know and get the APO from me.
Meanwhile, here’s the latest email from our contact there which has suggestions for what we might send.
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Dr. ****,
Thanks for writing. Sorry I haven’t gotten back to you recently. The pace has really picked up around here. We are doing well and are still receiving all of your packages. The soldiers are really enjoying all of it. Things I’ve noticed that they particularly get excited about is oatmeal packets, candy bars, and trail mix. We also have a keurig coffee maker in the chapel now and the soldiers really enjoy the different coffees, teas, and hot chocolate packets you can use with it. Besides just the coffee, they like the chai packets.
I hope that gives you a few more ideas. We really appreciate all the care you and your group put into these packages. They are a constant blessing and we get comments from soldiers all the time about how great it is that the chapel has them available.
We are still receiving the beanie babies and putting them to good use. The local children get very excited when they see them.
We had a great time at Christmas and it was a very peaceful one. We had a special meal at the dining facility and many of the units here on our FOB had their own little Christmas party with movies and food and recreation time.
Thank you again for your support and love for our troops. Your care packages are a constant reminder for them that they are doing a great work for our nation.
I can do one for Valentine’s.
bttt
Big thank you to jtill whose contribution and pledged contribution made these packages possible!
And a big thank you to mathluv who is going to send a care package for Valentine’s Day.
Mailed January 18, 2011, to base near Kandahar, 3 care packages 12x12 flat rate
Box 1, insured $64.01, postage $15.20
8 cans Planters nuts (4 cashews 1 lb., 2 mixed nuts 1 lb, 2 mixed nuts 18 oz.)
2 DVD movies:
The Replacements (Gene Hackman, Keanu Reeves), a fun football movie
Antwone Fisher (Denzel Washington)
12 pkgs BBQ corn nuts
1 Semper Fidelis sticker
Box 2, insured $96.13, postage $15.20
1 DVD movie: The Lion in Winter (Katherine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton)
6 Books:
Alive or Dead (Tom Clancy)
My Name is Mary Sutter (Robin Oliveira), about nursing during our Civil War
Hondo (Louis L’Amour)
To the Far Blue Mountains (Louis L’Amour)
Jubal Sackett (Louis L’Amour)
The Last of the Breed (Louis L’Amour)
12 envelops Giardelli double chocolate cocoa mix
20 envelops Quaker instant oatmeal (cinnamon spice, brown sugar, raisin)
53 single packets C&H sugar
1 container 7 oz. Taster’s Choice freeze dried gourmet coffee
8 pkg BBQ corn nuts
1 calendar Teen Challenge 2011
Box 3, insured $74.51, postage $15.20
6 DVD movies (most are chick flicks for the female medics):
Romeo and Juliet (Zefferelli’s masterpiece with Olivia Hussey)
Hamlet (Zefferelli masterpiece with Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Helena Bonham Carter)
Julie and Julia (Meryl Streep)
Cheaper by the Dozen (Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Welling)
Yours, Mine and Ours (Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo)
Amistad (Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins)
1 large container 90 mini Snickers candy bars
1 large bag 90 Reese mini peanut butter cups and Kitkats
10 envelops Quaker instant oatmeal
4 pks BBQ corn nuts
2 Popular Mechanics magazines and 1 Imprimis newsletter on the Constitution
Easter is April 24 this year. This will mark our cut off for mailing chocolate candy until October Halloween packages.
Anyone who wishes to send an Easter care package, please let me know. Meanwhile I could use some modest donations toward these two care packages, or for the upcoming Easter boxes.
Mailed January 21, 2011, to base near Kandahar, 2 more care packages 12X12 flat rate.
Box 4, value $50.70, postage $12.95
45 heart shaped Valentine candy boxes with 3 Russell Stover chocolate candy treats
1 bag Hershey’s Valentine milk chocolate kisses
Popular Mechanics magazine for Feb/2011
Imprimis newsletter with North Korea discussion
Box 5, value $38.85, postage $12.95
7 large bags trail mix (tropical, mountain, and I forget)
1 bag Hershey’s Valentine kisses
3 tubes hair conditioner cream
2 perfume sample pages
P.S. As you can see the postage price for military care packages has gone up.
As of the beginning of 2011, I am an “empty nester”.
I am spending lots and lots less on food (surprise, surprise) so I can afford to send you some financial assistance.
Too late to send it today, but I'll put a check in the mail tomorrow for you and the “Merry Band of Patriots”!
BUMP for FR’s finest supporting America’s finest. Thanks to all contributors.
Oh, boy! I love spending your money. Anything in particular you’d like me to send the troops for Easter?
Spend it however you see fit.
I trust you.
A BIG THANK YOU to Airborne who donated the following two boxes that went out today. Volunteers who want to send Easter candy care packages or a Passover card, please check with me for the new APO for Kandahar. Easter is April 24 this year, so they should be mailed out by March 26.
Mailed March 16, 2011, to base at Kandahar, 2 boxes 12x12
Box 1, insured $200.00 (value $204.39), postage with delivery confirmation $16.40
1 box 24 Snickers dark chocolate regular candy bars
1 box 24 Snickers almond milk choc candy bars
2 individual Reese’s 2 pack peanut butter cups
3 large Hershey’s almond bars
1 large Hershey’s milk choc bar
1 TV miniseries:
Shogun (Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune)
8 DVD movies:
The Ten Commandments (Charlton Heston, Yul Bryner)
Lawrence of Arabia (Peter O’Toole, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guiness, Omar Sharif)
Ben Hur (Charlton Heston)
Starship Troopers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Wayne)
Rio Grande (John Wayne, Henry Fonda)
Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep)
Robin and Marian (Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn)
2 books:
Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein)
The Quick and the Dead (Louis L’Amour)
2 magazines:
People magazine, January 2011,
Popular Mechanics, March 2011
Box 2, insured $170.02, postage $16.40
1 box 24 Snickers dark chocolate regular candy bars
1 box 24 Snickers almond milk choc candy bars
5 individual Reese’s 2 pack peanut butter cups
2 TV miniseries:
St. Peter (Omar Sharif)
Wild China (BBC nature miniseries)
8 DVD movies:
Quo Vadis (Robert Taylor, Debra Kerr)
Outlander (Jim Caviezel)
How to Train Your Dragon (Jay Baruchel)
Knight and Day (Tom Cruise, Carmen Diaz)
Daddy’s Little Girls
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (Van Heflin, Spencer Tracy)
We Were Soldiers (Mel Gibson)
Cleopatra (Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Taylor)
1 book:
Reagan’s War (Peter Schweitzer)
2 magazine: Reader’s Digest April 2011, Westways with volcano trips
index file cards with the names of the movies and books for the library file box
I forgot to write in that each box had 14 bags of Act II butter microwave popcorn.
Tomorrow I go shopping for Easter candy to send it with some other movies and books for jtill. If anyone wants to have me make up a care package from them or send a little for some extra goodies to tuck in, please let me know.
Great work as always, Patty!
God bless you!
I have sent two boxes of candy and hot chocolate. I did not keep a list of what candy I sent.
Big Thanks to mathluv who reports she mailed 2 boxes to Kandahar with cocoa and candy! Fabulous!
Mailed March 31, 2011, to base near Kandahar, 4 boxes 12x12
Box 1, value $57.75, postage $12.95 THANKS to Kitty Mittens for donating to this care package!
107 Russell Stover chocolate covered Easter eggs
5 vanilla cream, 21 raspberry, 17 strawberry, 18 caramel, 17 maple cream, 15 truffle, 14 marshmallow
Box 2, insured $109.20, postage $15.70 THANKS to jtill for donating this care package!
4 Books:
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (T.E. Lawrence)
Call of the Wild/White Fang (Jack London)
Tunnel in the Sky (Robert A. Heinlein)
Glory Road (Robert A. Heinlein)
2 DVD movies:
The Social Network (Justin Timberlake)
Cecil B. de Mille old B&W spectacles Collection with The Crusades (Loretta Young, Ian Keith), The Sign of the Cross (Charles Laughton, Claudette Colbert), Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert), Four Frightened People, Union Pacific
9 bags of Whopper’s Robins eggs medium size
8 large 2-pack Reese’s peanut butter cups
1 Almond Hershey’s bar
2 small Easter baskets
index cards with movies and books for the lending library
2 travel tissue pks
Box 3, valued at $61.78, postage $12.95
used DVD’s donated by local friend who got them at local rental bankruptcy sale
2 TV series:
Lost, season 1 in 6 separate clam shells
Lost, season 2, in 6 separate clam shells
5 Japanese animation films? TV series? games? If anyone knows what these are, please let me know.
Dragonball Z Broley the Legendary Super Saiyan
Rurouni Kenshin box 2 with discs 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Versus
Samurai The Motion Picture
Naruto, Disc 19
7 bags of Whopper’s Robins Eggs medium size
6 large 2-pack Reese’s peanut butter cups
Popular Mechanics magazine, April, 2011
2 Imprimis
misc stickers (flowers, animals, etc)
Box 4, value $29.30, postage $12.95
52 envelops Quaker oatmeal (15 cinnamon apple, 14 cinnamon spice, 18 maple brown sugar, 6 original)
1 large bag Sunsweet raisins
4 bags Whopper’s Robins Eggs medium size
2 magazines:
Astronomy (on finding planets)
Weekly Standard (on attack of Libya)
3 travel tissue packs
Email from base near Kandahar!
Thank you so much for the boxes. They all got here and the movies were very much appreciated. The Easter candy was gone within 3 days and the snickers were gone in about 4. It was all very much a morale boost for all of us to get Easter stuff. Please let all of your group know what a blessing they have been to our soldiers. Thank you for your prayers and support.
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Update:
I need volunteers to help with the Fourth of July. Please let me know if you can send a box of Pringle’s potato chips from the East Coast or can send a flat rate box of chip dip and/or lemonade mix to be mailed by the end of May from anywhere.
Suggestions for other ideas to go in the 4th of July boxes are welcome, as are small and medium and large contributions for me to do the leg work.
THANKS ALL!!
Hi Patty...been away for awhile, so let me know how I can help for the 4th! :)
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