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| | | (...) Yes, returning what I can is not a problem...just gives me another excuse to go to the stores and see what's on the shelves :-) I think I will snap together the Duplo that I opened , in order to get more into one box. Too bad there's no (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey —Julie Krenz
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| | | | | I mailed out the packages on Monday. I ended up sending 3 boxes with contents from the following: 8 1200 pc blue tubs 4 400 pc freestyle w/backpack 4 400 pc classic w/tray-building table 1 400 classic bucket 1 80 pc Primo 1 13pc(?) Primo from the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | (...) Thanks so much for taking care of this, Julie. (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | Thank you very much Julie, all from my heart...:-) Best regards, Selçuk dkrenz wrote in message <37EAFFF1.F1F6DC25@mc.net>... (...) contents from the (...) cost $245. (...) around $350.. (...) do the math. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | Yes, thanks Julie! Now I guess it's time to discuss what to do with the leftover money. Turkey's need is desperate, but in the interim there have been a number of other disasters! Julie has the leftover money but it's not fair to keep asking her to (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) I've done a little poking around towards donating to Hurricane Floyd victims. There is a local charity, Operation Toybox, which does toys formed a few years ago by a local high school student (see (URL) which we can probably work with to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | <37EF50F8.31BEE0F7@voyager.net> <37F212C3.7A79@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This seems like a good idea to me. Floyd seems to have caught people really off guard and flooded areas no one (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey —Frank Filz
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| | | | | <37EF50F8.31BEE0F7@voyager.net> <37F212C3.7A79@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) I will indeed have time to do some LEGO shopping this weekend, and I will make time next week to get any (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.nc, lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur)
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| | | | | Update and thanks to all of you (was: Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey) —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | Things were not so easy and clear on my side, but finally it seems that it will be ended in a good fashion. On Tuesday 28.09.1999, I was informed by the customs that I have three packages waiting on the customs for delivery. Obviously they were the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Update and thanks to all of you (was: Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey) —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | | (...) that (...) My friend called again, and said that the legos are inside his cars trunk, so this is over..:-) I'll inform you about donation to the childes, most probably with some pictures, if I can barrow the digital camera that we used in our (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Update and thanks to all of you (was: Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey) —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | | | (...) Hi to everyone again. I've sorted and repackaged all of the sets, add to them two duplo sets from John and Diane Cromer + several wheels and windows/doors sets (to add more play value) that I bought with money from Thomas Main ans myself, and (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Update and thanks to all of you (was: Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | Wow... We're going to have to figure out a better way to handle these situations. I'll talk to the Operation Toybox folks and see what ideas they have for the future. I think they only do aid to US and possesions, but they have managed to get free (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Update and thanks to all of you (was: Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | <FIx4x9.K7z@lugnet.com> <37F4AD4C.586@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What a horror story. Between shipping and bribes, we're getting maybe 20 cents on the dollar. I think kudos should go (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Update and thanks to all of you (was: Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey) —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | Hi fellows, Finally all the legos met with children. Last weekend I've brought the packages to their destination. I don't have enough time to continue right now, but I'll post a more detailed update as soon as possible. I've also taken some photos, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Update and thanks to all of you (was: Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | email me the pics and I'll put them up on some space I have... (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Update and thanks to all of you (was: Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey) —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | Wow, thank you very much. The photos from digital camera are ready (obviously) and I can send them to you after some resizing to reduce their size.(This evening most probably) with some annotations and a little story. The ones from the conventional (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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