Monday, December 17, 2018

6th Annual Stockings for the Veterans

Overview: While the holidays for many can be a time for family, festivities, and happy memories, for veterans it can be a trying time. Particularly for the veterans who have to spend their holiday hospitalized for long periods of time in the local VA hospitals. Some of these veterans do not have family and friends to visit them and spend time with them. They are alone.

Objective: Kristi’s Hope partnered with Ray Lopez and Marine Corps League 835, along with the community to collect Christmas stockings and stocking stuffers to fill and deliver to our hospitalized Veterans. We also had Temecula Valley VFW Post 4089, several girl scout troops, boy scouts, local sports teams, Miss International and a Military Santa join in on our efforts.

Result: For about 3 weeks the community worked on handmade patriotic stockings, donations were dropped off and volunteers started RSVP’ing to help fill the stockings. On Sunday December 3rd local volunteers met at Metro Sound in Huntington Beach to fill 915 stockings and again at Harveston Park in Temecula to fill 451 stockings. We had a GRAND TOTAL of 1,366 stockings for our veterans. Within that total we had 165 sugar free stockings for the diabetic patients. We also had one local girl scout troop make 16 amazing stockings for the VA service/therapy dogs. The young volunteers decorated 700 pillow cases for our veterans to enjoy as well!
  • Thank you Metro Sound for allowing us to use your parking lot in Huntington Beach.
  • Thank you Steve Hyham for donating the tables for us to work on.
  • Thank you Amy Wiedner for your endless behind the scenes work to making the HB event a success.
  • Thank you to Dr. Pakiz’s office in Long Beach for collecting SO many donations.
  • Thank you Jenny for setting up and collecting donations at Xcell Fitness.
  • Thank you Shamrock Irish Pub in Murrieta for collecting donations
  • Thank you Flexx Fitness in Temecula for collecting donation
  • Thank you to all the corporations who donating items to fill the stockings and THANK YOU to the community for making this entire event a success by donating and volunteering your time!

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