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October 18, 2004
Operation Santa needs your support!
 | Karel from North Bend First Christian Church wraps gifts to be placed in stockings that will be sent to deployed Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. Volunteers from North Bend sewed over 600 stockings for Operation Santa. |
| Jean holds up one of 50 stockings filled by the Christian Women's Fellowship. These stockings will be sent to 1/23 Marines currently deployed in Iraq. Marine Grandma Bette is standing in the background. |  |
We are still working hard! The past week has been one of 20 hour days for Connie and I - and I know the other volunteers are working just as hard. We now have sponsors for all of 1/7, 1/23, 9th Comm, 4th LAAD . . . and we're filling up 2/10. These Marines are working hard for us and deserve our support. I'm on my way to a packing party for one of the 1/23 platoons and will update with pictures tonight.
If those of you who do not have time to sponsor a platoon but would like to support the project in another way, checks can be sent here:
Marine Corps Family Foundation
4500 Ruby Ct. NE
Salem, OR 97305
Please make sure that checks are made payable to the Marine Corps Family Foundation but Operation Santa is designated on the memo line. Thanks - our troops will appreciate it. Paperwork for the Foundation is being filed and receipts for tax purposes will be sent as soon as approval by the IRS is received.
All donations towards Operation Santa will be very much appreciated. A complete accounting will be published as soon as the project concludes.
Posted by Deb at October 18, 2004 11:50 AM
Comments
I have some questions regarding the messages we should be packing in our boxes. Do those in charge of battalions in Iraq know that all these boxes are coming? Should we be marking them in a specific way? How do we address them? Should we be sending a letter of explanation to anyone over there? I have these questions because the platoon I am coordinating has boxes coming from 2 different states and I just wanted things to be easy for those in charge. Any ideas out there? What are others out there doing?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Posted by: Nancy Woolsey at October 24, 2004 06:59 AM
I had told Chris that the boxes I send will be marked Operation Santa, so he knows to deliver them to the Navy Chief for the Christmas party. I am putting notes in each box to designate which box is for the 3 women in the unit and which box is for the 4 Marines. The rest of the boxes will be for the entire unit.
So far I haven't had anyone ask for any tax status info or non profit info but if we have this available now I would like to have copies of those certificates, if I can. Are they available for us yet ?
Thanks in advance for any advice or help out there. I'm still working hard and slowly making a dent in the progress and should be ready to go by the middle of Nov.
Frankie Raney
Posted by: Frankie Raney at October 30, 2004 09:02 AM
I just wanted to say thank you from my husbands unit. Im not sure if and who your sending your christmas stuff to but that's all that matters is you care! My husband will be gone for Christmas and my son and I will be spending it without dad this year. God is with us all, thank you for being you!
usmc wife
Posted by: Jacqueline Marine Wife at November 13, 2004 02:12 PM
My 2nd period class wants to send a care package to the marines along with my teachers other periods so in total 5 boxes.We wanted to know what to send and by when and to who and basically everything because his classes tried it last year and it never got farther then we are now and we want to make sure it get there this year.Please Email me back or however u want contact me with the answers it would be very much appricated. Thank you very much for considering this and for what you are doing.
Posted by: Brittney Alvy at November 15, 2004 10:13 PM