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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
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In lugnet.announce, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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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
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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
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In lugnet.announce, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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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
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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 going to some kids in Georgia Shelters, but it does spread the love out
a bit. The good thing about the X-Pods is portablility and storage for those in
shelters who might be moving around.
Just my 2 cents. Everybody be a cheerful giver.
Chris <><
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In lugnet.people, Chris Giddens wrote:
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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 going to some kids in Georgia Shelters, but it does
spread the love out a bit. The good thing about the X-Pods is portablility
and storage for those in shelters who might be moving around.
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Excellent suggestion! I’ll have to tell my wife about this. Hopefully she’ll
have time tomorrow to check out the local TRU. If she finds any, I’ll suggest
she get a dozen or so.
Jeff
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In lugnet.people, Jeffrey Findley wrote:
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In lugnet.people, Chris Giddens wrote:
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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 going to some kids in Georgia Shelters, but it does
spread the love out a bit. The good thing about the X-Pods is portablility
and storage for those in shelters who might be moving around.
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Excellent suggestion! I’ll have to tell my wife about this. Hopefully
she’ll have time tomorrow to check out the local TRU. If she finds any,
I’ll suggest she get a dozen or so.
Jeff
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First, Check out Tuesday Morning stores, X-pods are $1.49, small pirate sets are
$1.99. Then, check out Media-Play, X-pods are $1.88, some small city sets are
$1.88. Then, go to TRU and pay $2.00 for X-pods.....
Paul
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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) and three monitary donations totalling $50
(plus one misc. donation).
To those of you who have/are donating, thank you so very much!
But there could be so much more...
Now maybe I simply just have unrealistic expectations, or maybe there are people
who just haven’t asked for my address (or got it from someone else), or maybe
people are just waiting for the weekend to go out to the store.
Heck, I’m sure that many people have already donated to other causes and aren’t
worrying about the toy drive.
If this is the case, then I sincerely apologize in advance.
But I just can’t help but feel a bit disappointed in the quantity of support
thus far. As far as I am aware, the announcement for the Toy Drive has been
posted to Bricklink, BZPower, Classic-Castle, FBTB, Lugnet and presumably
1000steine.de (didn’t check the website, but did recieve a monitary donation
from one of those folks).
I don’t know just how many people the announcement reached, but of those
websites I’m sure there are at least 5,000 people available. Possibly much
more. And to date I’ve had 8 people express interest in participating?
Please, if you can donate a few unopened sets, by all means, do so!
Or you can even send money for me to buy sets on your behalf. Here in my area I
have 2 TRUs, a KB, 3 Wal-Marts, 2 Targets, 2 Kohls, 2 Tuesday Mornings, a Burks
Outlet, and a Toy Liquidators. I have a Paypal account (no credit card
payments, please), or you can send me a check or money order or whatever. I
will do my best to stretch your donation as far as I can.
If you’ve read this far, thank you for your time. I don’t mean to be preachy or
beg, honestly, I don’t. If you know me, you should know I’m not (usually,
anyway) that sort of person. But I just want to be able to make a substantial
donation on behalf of this community. I’m not asking for a semi-truck load...
but a pickup truck bed-full would be nice.
I just want to avoid having to hand over two grocery bags of LEGO sets and say
“Here is the donation on behalf of the online AFOL community.”
So if you’re interested, if you want my address or paypal account address, or if
you have any questions, please email me at savatheaggie at ev1 dot net.
--Anthony
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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 for final call for donations.
However, that time has passed. Waiting much longer for donations will delay
this toy drive further than it needs to be.
If you have a donation in transit, please, email me and let me know. I’ve
recieved 4 boxes thus far.
All told, I’ve had only about 20 participants in total. Fortunately, for the
sake of the community, those 20 or so participants donated very very generously,
and I’ve been able to gather a modest pile of donations.
Most of the participants have donated money, and so I’ve been doing my best to
buy what I could. Even while I was evacuated to Texarkana, Arkansas, I visited
the local TRU and was able to take advantage of a huge pile of green tagged, buy
two get one free, X-pods (effectively $1.33 each). I also was able to pick up
over the last few weeks some duplo, jack stone pirates, and some other random
sets, even including discount bionicle and clickits.
If you haven’t already sent your donation, unless you can get it to me VERY
quickly, I’m afraid its too late.
If you want to donate money, there’s still (VERY LITTLE) time. There isn’t much
to speak of left, here in Houston, but I’ll do my best to hunt it down.
To all of the people who have donated: Thank you so very very much. You will
be making a few kids very very happy. I won’t name names, so you’ll have to
stand up and take a bow on your own.
--Anthony
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