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November 16, 2007
Operation Santa USMC 2007
Four years ago, two Marine Corps Moms began a holiday project to send Christmas stockings filled with holiday treats to deployed Marines in remote regions of Iraq. With the help of amazing volunteers throughout the country, we sent 6,000 stockings the first year, 12,000 in 2005, 18,000 in 2006, and have set a goal of 25,000 Christmas stockings for 2007. We're closing in on our goal but need help from military supporters to make this happen.
Packing parties are being held all over the country. I spent last weekend in North Bend, OR where the wonderful South Coast community came together to pack 2,000 Christmas stockings and boxes of platoon gifts (games, DVDs, baseball bats & balls, etc.) As you can imagine, this type of large scale project takes plenty of space and the owners of the Pony Village mall, Kathleen and Paul Rudder, generously donated a storefront for dozens of volunteers, headed by Kendra & Cam Parry and Molly Ford, have been working for weeks. This is just one of many groups that will send boxes of holiday cheer to our deployed troops - Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, and Air Force.
Donations have been coming in but postage is our biggest expense and we need help. A number of small communities have boxes waiting to be mailed - and they must be mailed by the end of November in order to reach our troops by Christmas. If you can help, click the Operation Santa Paypal link on this page or send a check to:
Marine Corps Family Foundation
Operation Santa
5000 Lancaster Blvd, Suite 57
Salem, OR 97309
MCFF is a 501c3 organization and all donations are tax deductible. Questions can be sent to operationsanta@marinecorpsfamilyfoundation.org Thanks for getting involved!
Posted by Deb at November 16, 2007 04:16 PM
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