Dennis DelBiaggio, a stock car racer/contractor from Ferndale,
raced the 2008 and 2009 seasons and very generously donated 1/2 of his winnings to Socks for Soldiers. By the way, Dennis placed First in the Sportsman Division last year. Go Dennis!
Because of his great skill at racing and hundreds of dollars, SFS was able
to ship care packages to our soldiers the past twp summers and that's something we've never been able to afford before.
Thank you to Dennis and his crew for their great support of Socks for Soldiers.
Paulette and many other SFS supporters, wearing their SFS t-shirts and sweatshirts,
may be seen at the stock car races cheering.
Paulette, as it turns out, had become a cheering section all by herself (very vocal, indeed)!
Last November during our SFS packing party, Dennis and his wife Susie, were helping us. Dennis told me at that time that he would continue racing for Socks for Soldiers.
So be watching for the SFS cheering section at the 2010 Redwood Acres Races.
O&M Industries has been a huge supporter of SFS since 2004 with their Annual
Golf Tournament. Thanks so much to O&M and to the golfers that participate in the tournament. They always give SFS a big boost and lots of moral
support.
Hip, hip, hooray! To all our friends at Bi-Coastal Media. Thanks to Debra for her many kind
words and smiles. Thanks for letting us talk about our program and events on the air with Dana, Pete and Rollin.
A huge thank you to
Big Red Country's Rollin
Trehearne for starting the Christmas Cards for Soldiers program. Last year, we received over 17,000 cards to send to our troops. Tremendous!
SFS would like to thank the Dollar Tree Stores in Arcata, Eureka (all three locations) and
Fortuna for their Operation Home Front program last winter. We'd also like to express our gratitude to all the generous people that embraced and supported the program.
The Stores donated over 5,000 items that were included in the 2009 care packages shipped to our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A big thank you to Cindy Haney for organizing "soap" parties with the Ladies of Harley. They literally wrapped thousands of
bars of soap in tin foil and then put them in individual baggies for our 2009 care packages. WHEW!!
Our "Packing Party Volunteers" are always phenomenal. Last year, they were truly
exceptional and flexible. We originally were going to pack and ship 2,000 care packages but wound up packing 4,000 boxes. You all have our heartfelt
thanks.
Thank you to 1st Sergeant Gary Cooper and our local National Guard for all their help every year at our Packing Parties.
A special "Packing Party" thank you to Dennis, Susie, and Dustin DelBiaggio and Russ, Kent, and Carrie Campbell for helping us every single
day and night for over a week. We thank Dennis also for the use of his race car trailer. I truly do not know what I would have done without them!
A very special thank you to the Barbers at Eureka Grocery Outlet. Basically, if SFS needs anything, they are there
for us. In the past, they have donated food to our dinner/auction, donated items for the auction,
donated money to the program, purchased combat boot socks, donated toiletries, let us advertise @ their store, let us set up tables for dropping off items in
front of their store. Paulette calls and they never say, "No."
A very special thank you to Gene Chavis, Agent, and his clients @ Chavis Tax and Accounting in Taylor, Michigan. This is the third year in a row that the clients of this firm
have donated money to SFS to purchase combat boot socks.
Thanks again to the many Brownie troops and Girl Scouts who sold Girl Scout Cookies to community members to be donated to SFS and
shipped to our deployed soldiers. This year they have over 150 cases of cookies for our troops.
April, 2010 - We've just received a very generous donation from Seattle's Best, located in Borders at the Mall in Eureka.
They donated 12 cases of their wonderful coffee to be shipped to our deployed soldiers. Kudos to Nick, Candice and toall that supported their efforts with
this donation.
