Hitting the Ground Running

Well it has definitely been a busy week-end for me!! But I have to say I have enjoyed EVERY minute of it!!

Sorry for the lack of communication in the past week but it was finals week for me at school!! Now that it is over I will have much more free time to concentrate my efforts on our cause. These efforts started on Saturday and have been NON-STOP already.

Canned Food Drive- I received contact yesterday from the one we all know as The Replacements. This person asked to meet up. They wanted to help us out and needed a starting point so they chose me. We met in a public place for both of our comfort and security since we were strangers. THE REPLACEMENTS DELIVERED OVER $200 IN CANNED FOOD FOR OUR FAMILIES!!. While we are on opposite sides of the gate, caring for others does not know any boundaries. Thank you Replacements for putting everything aside and just caring. While many of the Union members are not happy about what you are doing by working inside the plant, deep down we truly are grateful.

I would like to suggest, if you are not already, that if you need to make use of the canned food table that you make a donation to the hardship fund. No matter how small you can do, it will be able to help keep things like this going.

Angel Tree: Some of my outside sources have donated a few toys to help our children. I have been in contact with Angel Rock and have adopted my own angel on top of some angels I already knew about that I just wanted to sponsor. These other people did not come to me. I went to them. I heard of their situations through the grapevine on the line and it is my honor that they have allowed us to help.

Here is where I would like to go with my efforts from here and some questions that have been sent to me:

KROGER CARDS: Many of my "elves" do not want to do cash donations directly to the Union Hall. We will be loading as many Kroger cards as we can (dependent on the dollar amounts we receive). As we do this, we will also be helping one of the schools in our community. The Kroger cards we have purchased, as well as many of the ones at the Union Hall, are all specially bought as a fundraiser in which Kroger gives 5% of the totals back to the school at no additional cost to the purchaser or the receiver. PLEASE NOTE THAT KROGER CARDS ARE RE-LOADABLE!!If you have friends or family who want to help you out they can just take the card to Kroger and add more funds on it. Sure beats them shopping for you and you ending up with a pantry full of food you will never eat!! Kroger Cards can also be used for fuel and prescriptions!!

HARDSHIP FUND DONATIONS: I have had some inquiries as to how to donate via money order to protect identities of contributors. First, let me say some of you have the funniest anon e-mail addresses haha. If you wish to donate via money order, Mail it to the Union Hall at 1844 Air Lane Drive Nashville, Tennessee 37210. I have spoken with the treasurer of the hardship fund and if you "earmark" your donations for a specific part of the fund (i.e. medication, utilities, food) I have been assured that is where your money will be utilized. Of course cash donations are always accepted as well. If you do not want to (or simply CAN'T) go the Union Hall but wish to donate let me know and we can work around that one.

DEAL ALERT: K.B. TOYS HAS FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY!! EVERYTHING IN THEIR STORES IS AT LEAST 30% OFF AND THEY EVEN HAVE SOME BUY 2 GET 1 FREE DEALS GOING ON IN ADDITION TO THE 30% OFF!! SOME ITEMS ARE SCANNING FOR MORE THAN 30% OFF TOO!! I KNOW THERE IS ONE IN HICKORY HOLLOW MALL AND AM SURE THERE ARE MANY OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE AREA!!

Well time for me to get the little people off to school. Since my last video was kinda sappy (I am not a sappy kinda chick but I LOVE that song). Here is a little something a little more silly and will bring back the childhood memories for a lot of us:



~TS1~
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