I have two people interested in starting back up with our weekly walks in the afternoon. Is anyone interested? This would be a great time to get together and walk, talk,and share stories about our soldiers. The exercise and companionship is good for our body's, minds and souls, not to mention a great stress reliever. Anyone interested, please let me know.

Don't forget we will be at K-Mart, in the vestibule this Friday, 10/22/10, from noon to 7:00PM, collecting donations and donated items for our Christmas for the troops. We will be selling bracelets, Halloween cards,and T-shirts. If anyone would like any T-shirts while we still have them, come on out to K-mart tomorrow. This is for a great cause. Please come on out to K-Mart tomorrow and see us!

The Relay for life, web page is up and running for people to sign up a team for next year. If anyone is interested in organizing a team for HHAFFA, please let me know and I will give you any information needed. I will not be a team captain this year. I have been asked to be on the committee. If HHAFFA is to have a team this year, we will need someone to volunteer for team captain.

Please make sure we have your service member's current address. Have a great weekend! GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS & GOD BLESS THEIR FAMILIES!

Kim Johnson
HHAFFA Treasurer
812-275-0246

News

We had a successful day at Walmart for donations. We collected several items for the Christmas packages along with selling t-shirts along and collecting money. Thank you to all who helped that day. Since it was a success we are holding one at K-Mart on Friday October 22 in the vestibule. I will be there at 12:30pm to set-up and we need to leave by 7:30. I need some volunteers to man the table. We will have t-shirts for sale, patriotic bracelet bands for sale, and will pass out the list of desired items from the troops. Receive donations of items or money for our Christmas Packing Party. So if you can spare some of your time please help us out with this very important day to get donations for our troops.

Also please save all your small plastic containers for our pre-packing party. These could be yogurt containers with lids, sour cream containers, or other small containers. We need these to pack packages of sauces for the troops like taco sauce, bbq sauce, and several other sauces they have requested.

Our monthly dinner was very well attended at Bob Evan's. It was a great time with good food and fellowship. I'm sure Tom will have another great place for next month's dinner so plan to attend it. It is always held the second Friday of the month. We will inform everyone of where next month's will be.

Support our Troops in all they do.

News

We need volunteers to man the doors at Wal-Mart Friday afternoon. We will be there to get donations for our Christmas packages for the Troops. I will be there around 3pm but I need volunteers to be there at 3:30pm until 6:00pm. If we get several volunteers then we can have breaks and get to the customers as they come in the doors and hand them a list of items needed for the troops. After we are done at 6pm then we can all head over to Bob Evan's restaurant for our monthly dinner.

Also please bring a bag of candy for our Halloween Safe trick or treating. We will be doing this Thursday Night Oct. 28, volunteers are aslo needed for that night. You may come dressed in costume as we hand out candy to the children and Christmas wish list to the adults for our troops. I will be at the 4-H fairground main building at 4:30pm to set up. This is their night of safe trick or treating. Thanks for all you do to support our troops.

Newsletter

On Friday I spoke with one of the riders from the Support Your Troops ride employed by Tri-Star Engineering. He complimented us on a very well organized ride, a very good ride route. He also mentioned we had a very good group working at Harley Davidson in Bloomington and we did a great job with the food at the park. He mentioned it was one of the best rides he has been on and is looking forward to next year’s ride. Congratulations and big thank you to all of the volunteers for making this ride a huge success and we look forward along to next year’s ride.

Larry Arnold, Chairperson HHAFFA.


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MONTHLY DINNER OCT. 8TH
October second Friday dinner will be at Bob Evans, 6 PM, October 8. They were very receptive to seating us in the glassed in room and would move tables to accommodate us. I told them from 6 to 16. Room has space for 50.

In Christ,

Pat & Tom Boscher

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MEETING OCT.4TH
Meeting at the HHAFFA office is Monday, October 4Th. Located in the Old Madden school building at 620 H ST. HHAFFA will be selling bags of greeting cards for 5.00 per bag. You may purchase them before or after the meeting. We still have many T-shirts left to sell. All proceeds will go to support our troops.

HHAFFA will also have table set up at Walmart on Friday Oct.8TH, to collect donations for care packages.

I'm also very happy to share with you, HHAFFA did receive many compliments on how well the ride event went and how much they enjoyed the event. Everything, form the ride route, how smoothly it went, to the hopsitality and the great food, and all the volunteers at Harley Dadidson of Bloomington. A big thank you to everyone!

Hope to see everyone soon. Thank you all for your support!

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!