We'll be having our annual toy drive on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007 in the AJ Airpark LZ from 2-4 PM. Collected toys will be added to the local fire station's toy collection efforts for them to distribute to the community.
We'll provide holiday beverages and cookies and other goodies from 2 to 4. If it's a flyable day, we'll be flying. If not, we'll just pile up the toys and take a picture. Weather permitting, the firemen may come out to pick up the toys.
Due to Santa Ana winds, we'll have the toys collected at the LZ from 2PM to 4PM and then at 4 we'll shuttle the toys over to the local fire station on Kendall Drive.
The club will be making a cash donation, as usual, and Di, Kathy, and whomever else want to help will be using it to purchase a variety of toys beforehand. If you don't have time or inclination to get a toy and bring it to the LZ on the 22nd, you're welcome to make a donation (in the LZ drop-box is fine - mark the envelope 'Toy Drive') between now and then.
The toys go through the fire department to local underprivileged youth to help brighten their holiday season and are a way for us to keep a connection to the local first responders whose help we need from time to time.
2003 Toy Drive: A nice turnout for the 2003 Toy Drive on Dec. 20th. The mountainside in the background burned in the 'Old' fire 3 weeks earlier.
