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January 2009
One Sunday in
early December, a group of fantastic volunteers
met and stuffed 500 stockings headed for
Afghanistan and Iraq. The stockings were
full of letters - at least two in each stocking
- candy and treats. Thank you to everyone
who sent letters. Without the support of the
schools who sent so many great letters, cards
and drawings, we would not have been able to
make the stockings so good. Special thanks
to CVS Pharmacy who organized a letter drive and
sent hundreds of letters from their employees.
Jill - thank you - you are the best!
This Christmas, we were supporting 5 groups.
Each group received DVD players, many DVDs, DVD
cases, IPODs, Sports equipment, books,
magazines, toiletries and snacks.
The volunteers you see below have been helping
Pack It Up for the last 4 years with our
Christmas packages. It is our biggest
endeavor of the year and we spent over $7,000
sending Christmas goodies to our well deserving
troops. Thank you to our volunteers and to
everyone who has donated to Pack It Up.
None of this would be possible without your help
and support.
In January, we followed up and sent over more
movies, books, food and magazines to our 5
groups.
November 2008
Last week, we sent out packages to three new
contacts. The packages were full of
Christmas cards (blank so they can send them
home), all sorts of Christmas decorations,
coffee, snacks, razors, magazines, toothpaste,
DVDs, footballs, basketballs and loads of
donated books. Also, one group
requested twin sheets and blankets so we sent
over a bunch of those as well. Most of
these items were donated at the 4th Annual
Rhody's Run for the Troops and other private
donations. Thank you!!
We have begun our
Christmas shopping. Christmas is always
the largest mailing that we do. We will be
packing everything up next Sunday, December 7th
and shipping it soon there after.
This is last minute notice... but we need cards
and letters to send overseas. We send stockings
for every person and that can be up to 500
people. Please take a few minutes and
write 1, 2, 3, 10 letters that will be included
in the stockings. These need to be in the
mail by Tuesday, December 2nd so they will reach
us in time. All letters can be sent to:
500 Randolph Ave
Milton, MA 02186
Our new contacts:
Robert Miller
U.S. Marines
From North Carolina
We are
stationed here in Iraq. There is a small store
available to us and a chow hall. We work 12
hours a day, 7 days a week. It has become easy
to forget the privileges of being in the states.
We would love to receive any snack foods. Thank
you. All is going well out here. Morale is
staying at a medium level. We are very grateful
for the care packages we have received.
Thank you.
SPC Shawn Kelsch
U.S. Army
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2LT Raquel Acosta
The 4th Annual
Rhody's Run for the Troops was a huge success.
Thank you to all of our volunteers, sponsors and
participants for making it such a wonderful day
last Sunday, October 12th. There are over
500 high resolution photos online which can be
downloaded. (This means that if you'd like to
print one of these photos, you can easily do it
by downloading it first and then printing it.)
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Air Guard Participants 2008
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Pack It Up past contacts
Captain Matt Offiler, Colonel Larry Gallogly, LT Col Art Floru, Captain Laurie Ludovici, LCDR Geoff Gorman |
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Kristin Struck from Pack It Up and Matt Offiler, race starter 2008
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Struck Family from Pack It Up
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our fantastic volunteers!
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Military personnel out in full force!
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More fantastic volunteers!
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The race begins...
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Struck Family with Providence Mayor David Cicilline
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Racers crossing the finish line
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Kids races...
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3 legged race
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wheelbarrow race for the 'kids'...
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water balloon toss
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Anthony Offiler cools off his son, Captain Matt Offiler
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