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ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Operation Gift Wrap, Toys for Tots programs collect gifts for ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Veterans and their families

December 5, 2011
ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Marketing and Communications

The Operation Gift Wrap Program, sponsored by the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Veterans' Sanctuary and Armed Forces Veterans' Club, collected requests this month at ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï for a Christmas wish-lists, as well as donations, to help provide for the needs of ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï veterans and their spouses during the holiday season.

 

Shawn Kelsch, ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï  College of Business student, Associated Students ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Senator and member of the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Veteran's Club and ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï First Lady Laura Vailas helped out last week with Operation Gift Wrap and Toys for Tots efforts for ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï's veterans."It has been going great," said Casey Santee, director of the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Veterans' Sanctuary. "We've already raised more than $200 and had some toys dropped off. We'll continued to raise more donations through the end of this week, and try to fill all the wish lists we have from ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï veterans, to help them and their families have a nice holiday season."

The Veterans' Sanctuary and Veterans' Club is also partnering with the Marine Corps Toys for Tots Program this year to collect toys for each of the family's children.

For Operation Gift Wrap, ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï student veterans are encouraged to submit their requests through Dec. 6.  They can submit these requests at the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Veterans' Sanctuary office, located on the third floor of the Pond Student Union, Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. They can also submit requests via email to santcase@isu.edu. When submitting requests, people should specify if they would like gifts, or gift cards, for the family’s adults.

To participate in the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program, those making requests should submit the genders and ages of the children in each family. The Veterans' Sanctuary will provide this information to the Toys for Tots Program. 

Donations for Operation Gift Wrap can be made at the Veterans' Sanctuary or at the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Foundation, located in the basement of the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Administration Building.

Please limit gift requests to $50 per person; wishes will be fulfilled as funding allows. 

The gifts will be wrapped and ready for pick up/delivery to each of the families on Dec. 9.

For more information about Operation Gift Wrap, please contact Casey Santee or Tomarra Byington at (208) 282-4298. For more information about Toys for Tots, contact Phillip Hartman at (208) 242-8949.

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