On Tuesday, Nancy Sabella from the Sherry Wilson Team attended a packing party to help prepare items collected for the troops, to be shipped over seas. We would like to thank Nancy and all the volunteers that attended, in a valiant effort to give our support and love to our troops in harms way!

Here is the official "Operation Pinecone" update from Mary Hacker: 

Hi Everyone!

Hope you are all having a good day.

First I wanted to again say thank you to all of you who have made donations.  Especially all the donors from the Hill School in Middleburg who recently did a holiday drive for O.P. and brought numerous bins full of goodies and gifts over for our packages.

Also I want to thank those who brought donations and came to help out at the packing party Tues. night in Leesburg. It was great and we filled over 300 gift bags for the troops as well as wrapped many gifts and boxed up many gift boxes of toiletries to be shared.

We also enjoyed a fabulous dinner provided by Moe's Southwest Grillof Leesburg.  THANK YOU MOE'S!! (That was the only food I had that day :-)

We have another packing/wrapping party coming up tomorrow for anyone interested.  It's at Moe's in Ashburn on Waxpool Rd, just west of the Loudoun County Parkway intersection.

We'd love to have more people come out and help pack and wrap all the wonderful donations coming in at all the collection boxes at the 10 Moe's Restaurants that are partnering with us,  plus our own collections boxes.  There are never enough donations for all those troops.  Considering we had 35 camps and I just received contacts at 6 more camps in Afghanistan that are far out and don't even have a PX, we'd love it if you could spread the word to everyone that you know to add our cause to their holiday giving.  If they don't have time to shop, we'll shop for them!

There are two more packing parties on the schedule for Dec. 8th and 15th as well.  These are at other Moe's Restaurants in Alexandria and Chantilly respectively.

I'm also having people to my house to do more packing this Sunday from 1:00-4:00.  No RSVP required..just show up.

Although this e-mail is not intended to be all about Moe's...I want to tell you all that the Moe's owners have donated $3,000 to help with shipping costs for all these donations.  I forget if I every mentioned that and if I did..It's certainly worth mentioning again.  Three cheers for Moe's!!

I have to get back to packing but don't forget we also have collection boxes in Purcellville at Sherry Wilson & Company for those who are further West, and in at ERA Elite Group, Realtors in Fairfax in addition to the 10 Moe's Restaurants in Northern VA and MD.

Have a great day!

Mary

Operation Pinecone

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