Sue Burtzloff Boxing for Troops
The 2011 Event “Boxing For Troops” was a huge success thanks in part to the Marana Rotary Club! Here are a few statistics that were presented at the meeting on Tuesday, January 3rd:
- On December 2nd we shipped 103 boxes to Afghanistan.
- On December 18th we received word they had arrived, and that there were over 100 VERY happy soldiers!
- Since 2008 we have shipped a total of 380 care packages over the holidays to Arizona deployed troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo.
- The unit that was chosen this year is an Apache Calvary unit assigned to a “FOB”.
- One of the members of the unit is a 2009 Marana High School Graduate.
- $5223.85 was raised in monetary donations.
- $785.00 was received in donations from members of the Marana Rotary Club (Approximately 7% of the total raised, YAY Rotary!)
- We received hundreds of dollars worth of donated merchandise from the vendors at Oro Valley Farmers Market.
- We received hundreds of dollars in donated merchandise from an individual who took on the “Extreme Couponing” approach and got many items at nearly no cost.
- We were grateful to have 2 MUSD schools participate in making handmade cards for the troops. We hope to increase this portion of the project in the future.
- The 2012 Event will be the 5th Year, and we would like it to be special – we hope that Marana Rotary will be a part of it.
Thank you so much to everyone who helped make this event possible!
Sincerely, Sue Burtzloff sueperbly@msn.com