Whitewater Valley 
Marine Corps League Auxiliary 
December 2009 Newsletter 

The Auxiliary is participating in the Richmond Christmas Parade and the 
Christmas In Centerville Lighted Parade. The Auxiliary is celebrating the 
62nd anniversary of Toys for Tots with a parade float that includes a toy 
train running on train tracks. The Toys for Tots train logo was designed 
by Walt Disney personally. The Auxiliary encourages everyone to donate new 
unwrapped gifts for the 2009 Toys for Tots distribution.  

The Auxiliary participated in the Richmond State Hospital patient 
Christmas Gift program. We assembled and donated three hundred gift bags 
filled with personal hygiene items and tied off with candy canes for the 
patients.  

The annual KICKS 96 Kash for Kids event at Fricker's raised $4717 for Toys 
for Tots.  Local businesses donated items which were raffled by the KICKS 
96 team or sold at auction by Roger Richert. Dot Foods donated $1000 and 
Robert Lee sent $1000 raised from his unit in Afghanistan. One of the 
highlights of the evening was when KICKS 96 Angie Fox announced Dave and 
Kim Parker's prize: their son, LCpl David Parker USMC, arrived and 
surprised them at Fricker's, on leave after his recent deployment to Iraq!  

XEROX is doing something really cool again this year! If you go to this 
website, www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox 
will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving 
in Iraq. You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the 
armed services; and it only takes a few seconds to do it. PITNEY BOWES and 
the American Red Cross have joined forces with Walter Reed Medical Center 
to distribute holiday cards sent by Americans to wounded soldiers. If 
you'd like to participate you can send a card to: 

We Support You During Your Recovery! 
c/o American Red Cross 
PO Box 419 
Savage, MD 20763-0419 

Thanks for taking the time to support our military! 

It's back!!! Friday Night Dinners and Bar Bingo 
December 4th - Chili Dinner 
December 11th - Pork Loin Dinner 
December 18th - Pitch-In Soup Dinner 

At the Commandant's Party on Christmas Eve, there will be a White Elephant 
gift exchange. If you want to participate, you must bring a wrapped 
present; spend no more than $10.00. The White Elephant exchange is not 
mandatory. Our Commandant has asked that everyone who comes to the party 
please bring a canned food item to go into the first annual Food Drive 
Basket.  

Last month, Auxiliary PNP Margaret Haas's husband, Marine Harlow Haas, 
passed away. Harlow and Margaret's daughter, Susan Waters, is an Auxiliary 
member too.  Theresa Clark's husband, Jim, lost his father. Marines Curt 
Hodges and Jim Bullock passed away; Associate members Danny McClain and 
Dave Starns passed away. Please keep them and their families in your 
thoughts and prayers.  

Reminders: Loretta See, Junior Vice President, wants to remind everyone to 
turn in any unreported volunteer hours. Kay South, Treasurer, wants to 
inform everyone whose dues are unpaid that they have been removed from the 
membership roster.  

Please remember all of our men and women serving our country for our 
freedom!  

Respectfully, 
Nina Rose 
Auxiliary President