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January 30, 2006
Worthy efforts
Connie Riecke is working hard on the next MCFF project - sending Girl Scout Cookies to our deployed Marines. Here's Connie's message to those of you who are interested in supporting our troops in this tangible (and delicious!) way:
Support your local Girl Scout Troop by purchasing boxes of those yummy cookies. Then donate them to send to our Marines deployed. I know from experience that it’s hard to turn down those yummy cookies and the cute smiling faces of Girls Scouts when they knock on your door or meet you at your local supermarket. Every Girl Scout tries to meet a goal to sell enough to earn a merit badge. This fundraiser is enormous to the success of the Girl Scout program, and very much like the Boy Scout program that many of our US Marines completed. In fact many of our Marines have earned the highest rank of the Boy Scout program, they are Eagle Scouts. But, better yet, last year the Marine Corps Family Foundation was contacted by a local Girl Scout troop who had several cases of cookies purchased and donated to send to our troops. The foundation was able to label the boxes and put them in the mail to our Marines in Iraq. You can do the same. Just go to www.marinecorpsfamilyfoundation.org and make a donation via paypal and designate to “cookies.� We will purchase the cookies and put them in the mail. You can even email us if you have someone special to send the cookies to, just provide a name and address and we will make sure they get there. Or you can send a check to the Marine Corps Family Foundation, 4000 Lancaster Drive NE, Suite 57, Salem, OR 97309 and we will purchase and send the cookies.Another wonderful outreach is Operation Warmer, coordinated by Marine parents Sharron and Ralph Cook
This is Sharron L. Cook and my husband is Ralph E. Cook. As some of you may know by now, we have a son in the 1st LAR, Weapons CO. On the 7th of January 06, we got a phone call from him saying that where they are located, they have a lot of frost on their sleeping bags. And to keep the hand, body and foot warmers coming. That they really DO HELP. That Sunday we got an e-mail form a dad who has a son with 1st LAR, Delta Co. He asked his dad to get in touch with us to find out where we got the warmers at and he would like more because his hands get so cold when riding on his LAV. I had sent some hand, body and foot warmers to his son. I contacted the company by e-mail and asked them if they could help and told of what these two Marines said. AND THEY DID! By the end of the week, I had five (5) cases sitting outside of my gate. I thought I had a lot here. They sent 1,200 hand warmers and that may sound like a lot. But with the request that I have received so far THEY DIDN’T LAST VERY LONG. And it sounds like ALMOST ALL of our Marines need them VERY BAD.
So we have another Project to work on and we need to get this done as fast as we can. It is called “Project Warmer�. If we can come up with the money to buy the cases and the postage for the Flat Rate Boxes (FRB), I can get these warmers at $ .40 each pair. There is 240 pair in a case that equals to $96.00 a case, (NO MATTER HOW MANY CASES) each case lasting about 2 to 3 nights per Company and these warmers will last about 10 hr. a pair. I have been able to get almost half of a case in one FRB, just can’t seem to get the last 6 pairs in the box yet. This company said that they will pay for the shipping to my house so we can repack the warmers and send over in the FRB’s at $8.10 a box now. (Have to say here that there is a lot of cardboard in each case and a case weight is 29 lb.) I have been able to get around 12 lb. in a FRB. I will mail the boxes only to 1st LAR’s Sgt. Maj. Ward and Weapons Company’s Gy Sgt. Leikwold and they will pass them out. Any money left over will be sent to the 1st LAR homecoming funds at Camp Pendleton in CA for our Marines.
So please, we can get our Marine warmer by giving them the Hand Warmers to keep warmer and not be "so COLD" any more. I know it is on short notice, but I have done every thing that I can to help those out that I can. I just can’t afford to send to the whole 1st LAR by myself.
E-mail: sharronlcook@earthlink.net
Her deadline is tomorrow - let's get those handwarmers in the mail. Thanks for supporting our troops.
Posted by Deb at January 30, 2006 01:10 PM
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Deb - can you please email me, I have a question for you?
Thanks - Andi
Posted by: Andi at February 5, 2006 01:34 PM
I think the idea to send Girl Scout cookies is fantastic and I plan on supporting the effort. Our troops in Iraq and all over deserve our support - they are doing a great service for our country to bring Democracy to the Middle East.
Posted by: AnnaB at February 14, 2006 08:50 AM