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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 (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.people, FTX)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.people, FTX)
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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) (...) (19 years ago, 16-Sep-05, to lugnet.people, FTX) !
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX)
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