Our Newest Adopted Daughter

This is our newest adopted soldier.Her name is Jamie and she is deployed in Afghanistan.This is her second deployment. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to send cards,letters or supplies to her and her unit.Thank you

This is Douglas our other adopted soldier. They are our heroes. He will be coming home next month as will Brittany. Thank you for your service.If you would like to adopt a soldier go to Operation Adopt a Soldier and they'll get you started.It's worth it.They are WORTH IT.

Easter in Afghanistan.Brittany ( 3rd from left) is our adopted soldier(daughter) We love her and all our soldiers.Hurry home.

I'm Krysten and have been an intern at
Canal Street since the beginning of the school year. First off, thanks
so much for your continued donations to the program. The folks here
really appreciate it, and it means a lot to know that community members
are so consistently supporting our Veterans. Kim just told me that you
may have the means to donate or find crafting supplies. We are hoping to
have some type of a kids group with our families, and if you were able
to wrangle up some art supplies- markers, paper, kid scissors, finger
paint, regular paint, aprons for their bodies, crayons- really anything,
or some type of gift certificate, we would be able to put it to great
use.
 This person needs our help to help the kids at center.Please help.

Thank You Donors

Thanks to Jelly Belly Jellybean Co. for 3 cases of Jelly Bellies and to Car-Freshner Corp. for a case of Little Tree Car Freshners. Thanks so much for supporting our Soldiers.

Cards Arrived

Cards made by the Hiawatha Elementary School arrived to our soldiers stationed overseas.

Valentine Cake for is Soldiers

Douglas,who is stationed in Afghanistan and is the cook made this great cake for his fellow soldiers.

Alittle Good Cooking

Amazing what Douglas did with 5lbs of white chocolate chips. He made a devils food cake stuffed with chips then melted more chips and cream and spread it over the top. yummy. This is a quote from Douglas:
"It is really cool that the Chocolate factory enjoyed the pictures. It adds a new facet to what I do, usually pleasing the eater is what I like now we are pleasing the manufacturer thats cool.



As for items the soldiers here have enjoyed the maple syrup, we have pancakes some mornings we also do a make your own waffle bar they enjoy that. There eyews light up when i put out the maple syrup. With other items I kind of enjoy the suprise I get when opening. Maybe more items that we can use for cooking. Sauces, seasonings, mixes etc.



I really Thank You for all you do." Also:

"Just thought I would let you know that you made about 65 Soldiers forget

they were in Adfghanistan. We made a Devils Food w/White Chocalate cake"                                           The Chocolate was donated by  out of St.Albans,VT  thanks to them we made some soldiers smile.

SuperBowl in Afghanistan

We are slow glad that we could help make their time overseas alittle more enjoyable.A box of superbowl goodies were sent and it looks like it was enjoyed by all. Thank You Brittany for your service and all those with you.

Our elves were busy this year,we collected enough food for Soldiers Transition Home which was short food for thanksgiving.We also found out that there were 10 children living in the home also,so christmas was going to be special this year.10 cases of wrapped presents,1 case for each child,full of toys,clothes,books,and games topped with a stuffed teddy bear for each child. Well done Elves.

New Soldiers Adopted

Our Newly Adopted Soldier,Brittany, and a fellow soldier. She is Med.Tech. in Afghanistan. She is on her second deployment and stationed in CA.

If anyone wants to send cards or letters to our soldiers,you can send them to me and I'll send them overseas to our soldiers.If you want to personally write to a soldier,email me and I'll send you a soldiers address. Please never forget our Soldiers.

Our New Soldiers

These are our new adopted sons and daughters serving our country in Afghanistan. They are the best of the best. That is why my wife and I send care packages to our soldiers.Please feel free to donate cash for shipping or items to be shipped or better yet go to Operation Adopt a Soldier and adopt your own Hero to take care of.We have and we will till they all come home.

Christmas Elves

My good friends,Sylvie,Star,Deb,Jodi,Sandy and my wife all helped wrap and pack a christmas party for a unit of soldiers in Afghanistan.What a fun afternoon and we know there will be some fun for these soldiers.Thank you.

Thank You Alburgh School

The other day I was invited to talk to a group of students at Alburgh Elem. It was so awesome.The students collected christmas ornaments and decorations to send overseas to our soldiers.What a great day.THANK YOU TO THESE GREAT STUDENTS. Its always so special when the kids step up and do there thing to help.I want to go back soon to visit.

Thank You Barry Callebaut

Just got back from ST.Albans with 2 blocks of solid chocolate donated by Barry Callebaut Chocolates for our Soldiers.It gets shipped tomorrow and there will be one sugared up unit of soldiers in Afghanistan next week.Oh yummy. Thank you so much for your donation.

Holiday Season

Well we shouldn't have to remind folks that the holidays are coming and our soldiers need to be remembered but we have to. Please try to find something to send to our soldiers during this time of year even though they are deployed all year.You can contact me and I'll tell you where to send it. They can not be forgotten,please help us.

Ride to Remember

The Ride to Remember is taking place July 30th from 6am to 5pm ending up at Wilkins Harley-Davidson in Barre ,VT. All money raised goes to the support of the VT Fallen Soldiers Memorial in the Randolph,VT Cemetary. I will be driving my PT Cruiser,don't own a motorcycle,this is a very worthwhile cause.http://vtfallenfamilies.org/ this is the website to view.

Still Here

I know you've been wondering whats been happening.NOTHING!!!!! It's been very hard these days to get donations and supplies but I keep trying.Feel free to contact me and help us send care packages.thank you.

Thank Local Business'

I would like to acknowledge the donations of 2 local businesses. First is DR.Feeley's Essex Family Dental Practice for donating 2 very large cases of toothpaste.Lots and Lots of toothpaste,such a very big thank you. Next to NBT Bank in Burlington and Dan Johnson for donating 200 pocket size bottles of hand sanitizers,this will be very handy,(sorry,had to say it) thank you so very much.Also we can't forget Bumble Bars.Damn they are good,yes I had to try one and they are so good.Please contact me at taximan2@comcast.net if you would like to donate anything for our care packages to our soldiers. Donations are very slow and the economy is very slow but they found the way to help.See if you could help out.Thank you