A Thank you letter from the Iraqi Scouts
SPRING/EASTER TREATS FOR THE TROOPS!
WHAT: Help our troops celebrate Spring/Easter by decorating and filling a gift bag (no larger than 8"x10"x3") with Easter candy, S'mores, healthy snacks, new white tube socks, encouraging notes and cards.
WHEN: Drop off of gift bags will be on Thursday or Friday, March 4th or 5th from 3 pm - 7 pm
WHERE: Nashua VFW Hall - Post 483 located at 2 Qunicy St. in Nashua NH.
WHY: Because we care!
Individuals, organizations, and businesses are welcome to donate brown bags that comply with the following requirements:
Suggested packing items:
- s'mores package (Marshmellows, gram crackers and chocolate)
- Granola bars
- Tootsie Pops or Rolls
- Hard wrapped candy
- Packaged cookies
- Dried fruit or nuts
- Crackers
- Hot chocolate
- Playing Cards
- Candy Canes Packages
- holiday cookies
- Gum & mints
- Marshmallows
- Licorice
- White tube socks
- Slim Jims M&M's
** NO Toiletries, liquids or home baked goods or canned goods.... Please
Finanical Donations to help defray the cost of shipping the care packages are always greatly appreciated.
As you may know the New Hampshire National Guard/Reserve as well as New Hampshire based Active Duty Service personnel are scheduled to be deployed in record numbers in 2010 through 2011. Currently, over 1700 men and woman from the New Hampshire National Guard/Reserves/Active Duty personnel and over 100 Marines in the next 18 months are scheduled to be deployed from New Hampshire.
MooreMart is committed to ensuring that every deployed soldier/Marine/Airman from New Hampshire receives care packages from the New Hampshire Community during his or her deployment.
MooreMart has reserved the Grappone Center in Concord for a breakfast salute to our troops on march 10th.
The purpose of this event is too:
- Honor our members of the United States Armed Forces that have served in the Middle East.
- Increase the public’s awareness that the 2010-2011 deployment of members from the New Hampshire National Guard/Marine Reserve/Active Duty personnel will be the largest deployment in the States history.
- Procure financial support for our troops to ensure that MooreMart has the ability to send every member of the Armed Services from New Hampshire a care package during his/her deployment.
At the March 10th Veterans Reception we plan to open the doors at 7 am and start the event promptly at 7:30 am with the goal of having everyone on their way by 9 am.
I have attached a copy of the invitation for your review.
We are looking to fill at least 25 tables and will be asking for minimum donation of $25 per person.
Groups are encouraged to pool their resources and reserve their own table(s).
In regards to donations we are offering sponsorships from $250. to $2,000.
If a group would like to donate to this event and reserve a table arrangements can be made relative to seating and placement of the reserved table.
As an example a benefactor could donate $1,000 and their donation/sponsorship would entitle the benefactor to reserve their own table and receive 9 tickets on a 10 seat table, (with 1 seat reserved for the active duty soldier/marine who will attend free of charge) and at the same time receive recognition for their sponsorship of this event.
If anyone needs further information please feel free to contact me at the above e-mail address.
Thanks again for your support of our troops.
MooreMart began as a family effort to provide needed but unavailable supplies to our brother and his fellow soldiers serving in Iraq. Four years later we continue to supply soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with anything they need that will make their job a little easier. In fact, we have been so successful in our mission that the soldiers have said that we "carry more supplies than Wal*Mart", and dubbed us "Moore*Mart".
Today we have expanded our mission to include the local children in both Iraq and Afghanistan. We send new school supplies, toys and outerwear to villages that never had a school or where the schools have been destroyed. Now, thanks to our servicemen and women and the Coalition Forces the local children enjoy the long awaited privilege of participating in the educational process.