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Hello,

I was corresponding with a friend, Paul McCoy and he was telling me about how his school helped troops overseas last year during the holiday season. He was telling me about a solider that had just returned from Iraq that came into the Auburn School. He was not seeking glory, did not wish to leave his name. He came by for one reason only. To thank the school's students, for sending his unit food, games and material last Christmas.

Mr. McCoy's school and students made a difference! If any of you know of any soldiers, sailors, airmen or marines who are still in harms way, you could make a huge difference by getting your students together and show the real spirit of the holiday season. This is a great way to teach your students about contribution and giving back. I asked Mr. McCoy what agency he contacted and here is his response.

AGENCY, we don't need no stinking AGENCY.

We asked one of the ARMY officers in our Sturbridge school who was in IRAQ, via his wife, what the best thing to do was. He told us that sending things directly to A Person that we knew, preferable an officer, though that was not necessary, and asking that person to give it to the moral officer was the best way. He told us that then the people we knew, and the people who needed it the most, would get it. Otherwise, it just went out into space, perhaps semi directed, perhaps not, and they had to follow the requests of the agency who sent it. So we collected for a month, and divided up the stuff we got in to three 1.5 yard, 2 foot by 2 foot boxes, taped them up, and sent them to 2 soldiers and 1 officer in Iraq who we knew. We checked online and with the local Army Reserve (guard) for guidelines to make sure the stuff we were sending was OK with the culture, OK with both governments and OK with the soldiers. Then we sent it.

We are the Agency. We, that being the teaching teams, wanted to make the most impact for those who we were helping. It turns out, however, that the people in the most need were NOT the soldiers. We found out it was their families. So by doing this we had to make sure they (the families) knew what we were doing to help THEIR family, not just the soldiers in IRAQ. In other words, we were helping them help their husband, wife, child, uncle -- the families took it that way, and we doubled the impact of the people we wanted to help.

-peace
-PGM

Help make this a very special holiday season and get involved.

Greg Silva

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DECEMBER MARKETING - Board of Director Diego Perez has a great idea he wants to share with everyone. During the holidays shoppers are looking for something a little extra special when shopping for gifts. Many times it's not only the gift but the nice packaging and presentation that will produce better sales. It is very important that you not only have shopping bags for people to put the purchases in but also some nice boxes for items. Below are some links to some great products that are very reasonably priced. Everything from a Chinese take out box you can use for t-shirts to special boxes and envelopes for training DVD's and gift certificates.

I'd suggest a very nice display in your pro shop with items in the packaging. As an added bonus it's great to offer gift wrapping. I used to get a table and Leadership Volunteers for gift wrapping. You can charge a few dollars and use the proceeds for a party for your leadership that volunteered their help. Be sure to have a selection of Christmas as well as Chanukah paper.

Click here: Packaging Supplies and Retail Packaging Ideas by Bayley's Boxes - Nice boxes if you sell training DVD's. The also have some very nice gift certificate envelopes.

Click here: Retail Boxes - Uline - The 2 Quart Chinese Take Out box makes a unique package for school t-shirts. They fit if you fold and tightly roll them

Click here: Paper Mart Packaging Store - Gift Boxes - This company offers so nice apparel boxes for uniforms, shirts jackets etc.

Click here: www.retailshoppingbags.com - Great selection of bags for merchandise.