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OCP News...
Starting things off
Sometimes, when you start a new project, you just never know what all you will need; especially
if you are sort of flying by the seat of your pants.
We received some great donations from individuals
and local companies: donations of much needed money
to cover postage; donations of paper and printing to
print flyers we hand out; and much needed space to stage the
packing of the boxes. Thank you Thank you Antique World
Mall and Nile Clark Associates for our previous locations and Thank You millions to Idaho Youth Ranch for our current terrific space!!! Their donations of
nice big packing spaces allowed us to do the following:
2006:
- 715 boxes mailed
- postage $5694.00
- cost of goods $24,975.00
2007:
- 571 boxes mailed
- handed out 19 snack bags for departing troops
- postage $5005.00
- cost of goods $20,318.00
- handed out 82 VFW phone cards
2008:
- 934 boxes mailed
- handed out 467 snack bags
- postage $8346.00
- cost of goods $33,210.00
- handed out 574 VFW phone cards
- handed out 509 pocket flags
2009:
- 312 boxes mailed
- postage $3613.35
- cost of goods $13,380.00
- handed out 100 pocket flags
2010:
- 92 boxes mailed
- postage $1,990.00
- cost of goods $4,400.00
- handed out 180 snack bags
Over the years we have received some great donations from individuals
and local companies: donations of much needed money
to cover postage; donations of paper and printing to
print flyers we hand out; and much needed space to stage the
packing of the boxes. Thank you Thank you Antique World
Mall and Nile Clark Associates for our previous locations and Thank You millions to Idaho Youth Ranch for our current terrific space!!! Their donations of
nice big packing spaces allowed us to do the following:
Eagle River Mortgage paid for on site local radio
station KBOI broadcasting during our first packing on
Veterans Day, 2006.
Journal Broadcasting with Paul's Market provided advertising and collection locations for donations.
Antique World Mall, 4544 Overland, provided us a room to store our food and a place to pack our boxes.
Curves in Meridian and Kuna provide us with collection locations.
Salzer Medical Group provided collection locations besides having a blue jean day where each employee paid
$5.00 to wear jeans that day. It collected $435.00
Keller-Williams Realty employees donated a large amount of food and items
Several of our dentist friends donated toothbrushes, toothpaste, and dental floss.
Bigelow Tea donated 467 cases of tea (that was over
40,000! tea bags folks!!!)
Capital Distributing donated one and 1/2 pallets of snack items.
Frito Lay donated 144 pks ea of Jerky, pretzels, & cookies.
Idaho Candy donated chocolate
Boise Riverside Lions Club, made the first monatary donation of $810.00 to cover postage for 100 boxes.
VFW Post 63 Womens Auxiliary donated a large amount of snack items
VFW's Post 63, Boise; Post 3646, Glenns Ferry, American Legion Post 60, Cascade; and American legion
Post 26, Mountain Home made monitary donations
Our school children have probably donated enough food and items to fill over 100 boxes and a large
amount of money to cover postage. They also wrote numerous letters and made cards that were included in the boxes
mailed.
Nile Clark & Associates is currently (2008) donating
us a secure space to pack and ship boxes. Without this
space we could not offer this program for our troops.
The Mountain Home AFB Commissary donated a pickup
load of Easter candy.
KISN has donated many dozens of music CD's to keep
our troops entertained.
For Valentine's Day 2008 area schools donated over
50,000 hand made valentines, which we gladly boxed and
shipped. Here's a sample of the bags and boxes of cards
we received.
Many annonymous citizens have donated
food and items, enough to fill all of our 1286 boxes
as well as monitary donations to cover the postage.
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