This year we stuffed 2438 stockings for homeless children in 70 shelters throughout the puget sound region.  That is an increase from last year of 273 stockings and 20 shelters!  Thank you to all of you who came to help stuff last weekend.  This year we also had many really nice donations of toys and gifts.  So much so, that we couldn't fit all the candy that was donated!

This effort takes volunteer hours all year round, so thank you for all your efforts sewing, buying, organizing, stuffing and delivering!  We are so grateful for your efforts and the blessing of touching the lives of so many children. 

We are busy getting last minute donations together.
You can help in a few ways:
*First you can host a donation box at your work, school, church or community store and bring donation to the Coast Guard base, Pier 36 on Friday, Dec. 7th from 1-6pm.
And let us know so we can post the site for others to drop off their donations.
*The second way you can help is through cash donations so we can buy items specifically requested by shelters in quantity.
*The third way is to help us sort the toys on Friday, Dec. 7th from 1-6pm
*And the forth way is we need 50 Shelter Captains on Sat, morning Dec. 8th, to ensure the stockings are stuffed and delivered to the shelter assigned to you.
We generally have plenty of volunteers to stuff stockings on Saturday morning so contact us early to make reservations.
We were just written up in the PI by Mary Swift, this week. If your interested in reading the article about us and one of our volunteers here it is:
Group Helps Make Christmas Happy for Homeless Children:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/swift/336538_mary24.html
Thanks for helping us out to make a homeless child smile this year
Bobette Scheid
bobette@holidaystockings.org

We've just finished our Fall newsletter.
It's full of interesting news.

The Holiday Stockings is busy now getting the last few gifts we need to stuff stockings.
We have a new group of kids to stuff for this year. We've promised to help out with 300 of the Street Kids.

We'll keep you posted here of what we need

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