You are invited
to donate
sweat shirts and pants
for wounded soldiers who are evacuated to Germany from Iraq and
Afghanistan. John Rinard of TEEX's Emergency Services Training Institute
has joined Col. Allen Gilbar of the 445th Airlift Wing at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to provide sweat suits to soldiers
served by the Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron. The unit will transport
the sweats and provide them to soldiers on their flights home, which
tend to be cold, he said. Rinard has a personal connection: his wife
serves in the 445th and his son is stationed in Afghanistan. The service
project came together after he made a talk to an elementary school and
discussed "acts of random kindness."
The recommended size is
Xrta-Large or bigger.
Please
look for the Sweats donation box near the church parlor to deposit your
donated sweatshirts and pants.
Cell Phones for Soldiers hopes to
turn old cell phones into more than 12 million minutes of prepaid
calling cards for U.S. troops stationed overseas in 2007. To do so,
Cell Phones for Soldiers expects to collect 15,000 cell phones each
month through a network of more than 3,000 collection sites across the
country.
Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded by teenagers Robbie and Brittany
Bergquist from Norwell, Mass., with $21 of their own money. Since
then, the registered 501c3 non-profit organization has raised almost
$1 million in donations and distributed more than 400,000 prepaid
calling cards to soldiers serving overseas.
Americans will replace an estimated 130 million cell phones this year,
with the majority of phones either discarded or stuffed in a drawer.
Most people don’t realize that the small sacrifice of donating their
unwanted phones can have a tremendous benefit for a worthy cause like
Cell Phones for
Soldiers.
Please look for the Cell Phone
donation box
near the church parlor to deposit your old cell phones to be donated
to this worthy cause.
