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Our fair/fundraiser committee had their first meeting to work out the plans for our first fair/fundraiser of the year. We are very excited about all the possiblities and we will be working hard in the days ahead with our planning and preparation to make sure that this event is a huge success. The date for this event is Sunday, Nov 7th so pencil it in now! We have decided to do something that I think most of us have been affected by especially living here in this military community. Our event will be called, A Patriotic Christmas Marketplace--Caring for Our Local Soldiers. We will be asking for donations of items to pack up Christmas care packages for our soldiers out in Iraq and Afganistan when you come to shop. We will be utilizing an organiztion called Adopt-a-Platoon to get the addresses of some platoons stationed in our area. We will have a wrapping station with local volunteer teenagers who will wrap up each donation to be placed in the multiple large flat rate USPS boxes. We will have a bake sale that we will use the proceeds from to help pay for the shipment of all the care packages we can fill. We will have door prizes throughout the day to give away to lucky winners who are in attendance to win. It sounds like at this point we can have well over 30+ vendors at our location which will be announced once it is finalized. Please share this event with everyone you know and help us fill lots and lots of care packages to send to our soldiers so they know we love them and have not forgotten their sacrfice in being away from home. A list of all items that are acceptable for donations for these care packages will be posted here as soon as possible.