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LEGO toy drive for disaster relief
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Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:48:48 GMT
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Hi all,

Along with the Red Cross donations matched by LEGO, we also wanted to develop a more personal giving opportunity. Huge numbers of families have lost everything in the hurricane and subsequent flooding. Since a large fraction of these have ended up in the Texas area, Anthony Sava (TexLUG member, Lugnet member, CC Admin, and Houston resident) has offered to act as a collection point for a LEGO toy drive. Here’s the plan - you buy a LEGO set and send it to Anthony in the next couple of weeks; he’ll gather these together and bring them to the Houston chapter of the Red Cross, who are distributing supplies to hurricane victims. If you are unable to mail a set, he will also take in PayPal payments and use that money to buy more sets. For addresses, please contact Anthony at savatheaggie-AT-ev1-DOT-net



We all know how fun it is to open a new LEGO set. Let’s share that fun with some kids who could use a little joy these days.

Please spread this message to other LEGO fans through other forums, LUGs, etc.

Thanks, Bruce Hietbrink



Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: LEGO toy drive for disaster relief
 
(...) Bruce, It's good to see this happening. I will be sending information next month about donating Christmas toys to Toys for Tots - I'd be doing that now, but my inquiry to TfT was answered by a request to wait until mid-October. Joe Meno (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.people, FTX)
  Re: LEGO toy drive for disaster relief
 
(...) Just a suggestion on making your LEGO giving to farther... Check out the green tag sale at TRU. Over the past week, Mark Sandlin and I have found around 100 X-Pods at 2 bucks a pop. (Plus some clickits and Bionicle sets too) These are already (...) (19 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.people, FTX)
  Re: LEGO toy drive for disaster relief
 
This post is going to be repeated on several websites, so please excuse me for spamming. However... As an update to the Toy Drive: So far since it was announced, I have recieved four request for my address (and thus hopefully four future donations) (...) (19 years ago, 16-Sep-05, to lugnet.people, FTX) ! 
  Re: LEGO toy drive for disaster relief
 
This is my final post about toy drive until it is complete (and at which time I'll post pics of the final 'pile' and the delivery). I had to ecavuate for Hurricane Rita, but there's still a toy drive! Had I not had to evacuate, I would have posted (...) (18 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX)  

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