NOVEMBER PROGRAM NOTES / NEWSLETTER

From the President

CARE PACKAGES

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The Huntsville Post is seeking donations so we can assemble care packages for the troops for receipt in December. This year we'll be assembling and sending care packages to troops deployed in Afghanistan. Our goal is for more than 500 lbs of goodies.
 
Items Needed:

1. ground coffee

2. international calling cards

3. itunes gift cards

4. Snacks, such as:

   1. Energy Bars

   2. Beef Jerky

   3. Trail Mix

   4. Nuts

   5. Sunflower Seeds

   6. Granola bars

   7. Candy (hard type, chocolate is OK this time of year---- UNLOAD your unwanted Halloween Candy!)

   8. Ready-to-eat Tuna or Chicken Salad kits

   9. Cookies

   10. Single serving Powdered Beverage Mixes

   11. Single serving boxes of cold cereal

   12. Single serving packets of hot cereal

5. Personal Care Products, such as:

   1. Lip Balm

   2. sunscreen

   3. hand lotion (travel size)

   4. Individual packets of moist towelettes

   5. Hand/Foot Warmers

6. Blank greeting cards or Stationery

7. puzzle books (crosswords, sudoku, etc.)

8. stationery

9. Thank you letters (boys scouts, girls scouts, school children's letter's, too)

10. Donations to cover shipping

If you would like to give a monetary donation then we will use that to purchase items on your behalf from the list above.  If you want to support this effort please contact Ms. Lael Feist @ lfeist@hgl.com.  Please donate by December 2nd!


Volunteers Needed!
The annual MATHCOUNTS competition for the Madison/Limestone county area will be held on Saturday, 4 February 2017, at Liberty Middle School in Madison.  We are in need of volunteers to help support this event.  Please contact Ms. Connie Gibson @ cfgipson@yahoo.com if you are interested in supporting this event.  

Project STEMulation Support
We are in need of donations in support of our initiative called Project STEMulation.  The SAME Huntsville Post has adopted a local STEM program and they are in the need of the following items:

• mentors to donate their time

• funding to support the cost of the STEM program

• computers and tablets 

If you want to provide a donation please contact Jason Cade at jason.cade@usace.army.mil.  All donations are tax deductible.  

We appreciate your support!  Please forward this email to anyone who may not be on our distribution list that would want to support this effort.  If you have any questions please contact Ted Foster via email at tfoster@ssr-inc.com.

 

 

Upcoming Event
We wanted to let our membership know about an event that is coming up in November with Energy Huntsville.

Event:  The Energy Summit
Energy Summit (2 Days of sessions): November 15-16, 2016
Energy Expo (4 days of exhibits): November 15-18, 2016
Location:   The Davidson Center @ The US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville AL
Click here for more information and to register.
Exhibit Space and Sponsorship's are available!

 

The SAME Huntsville Post is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. All donations are appreciated and tax deductible. To donate, please contact Ted Foste (President@samehsvpost.org)