Deaf and Community Service Department
Click HERE for a printable copy of the Deaf and Community Service Department Report form for 2007
Shoebox Continues
This is our Family Festival big event. Grangers have really taken this project to heart and our military service people have come to depend on the Grange’s support.There will be an updated list from Dino (who runs the program) soon. He and I talked the other day and reviewed what the most needed and requested items are:
Twin sheet sets, pillows (regular bed pillows or the square kind that the Junior Granges have made in the past);
Individual powder drink mixes;
Single-serving food items;
Magazines - especially hunting, fishing and sports;
Black ink pens (for writing reports - no blue ink pens);
Energy bars, and;
White socks...
just to give you a few ideas.
And add Silly String to your list. It’s used to spray over an area to check for trip wires when they have to clear an area.
Remember: no glass, no oatmeal, no chocolate.
What can you get your community to donate? Think what you would miss so far from home and send it along.
Here is a letter that the PA State Grange recently received:
Dear PA State Grange,
Hello there. My name is SSG Colleen Distel and I lead a squad of soldiers here at FOB Warhorse in Baquobah, Iraq. I am originally from N.Y. but I have been living in LockHaven, PA the last two years. So, Dino Campanis has graciously added my squad to Operation Shoebox. He also told me that your organization is one of his best supporters. I have to tell you how much that you all do for the soldiers over here. We pickup mail every Tuesday and Thursday. These are some of the best days here. Every time we open packages from Dino, it feels like we are little children at Christmas.
As I close please know that your efforts are not unnoticed. I really Richard Lyter #2048 appreciate the support that everyone back home is providing.
Thank you from all of us at FOB Warhorse.SSG Colleen Distel
Dino also sent a letter along with SSG Distel's asking us to include a blog in The Advocate from PFC Amos Matsick. His writings are very informative and project images that are unlike those one would see on CNN or Fox Networks. His blog is: http://amosiniraq.blogspot.com
You are welcome to post comments on Amos' blog.
This Department continually looks for ways to improve our communities by sharing the knowledge, funds and motivated manpower that the Grange can tap into. We offer ideas and resources that support the betterment of all the residents living throughout the state of PA. We have a special interest in working in tandem WITH the Deaf and hard of hearing communities to support them reaching their collective goals.
Lois Steele, Director
5 Buttonwood Dr.
West Grove, PA 19390
(610) 869-9796