AIM Support Group of Ohio & N. KentuckyUpdates and Announcements
Tuesday, August 06, 2002Clothing Drive to Aid Indians Following is the article which appeared in the Dayton Daily News on July 31st. If you wish to donate, please bring your donations to our office at 3203 N. Main Street in Dayton (at the intersection of Maplelawn Avenue & Main Street) by August 23rd, to allow our volunteers sufficient time to sort and pack the articles prior to the trip. We're usually in the office on Thesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) If we're not in the office when you arrive, please see Red Farris at the wooden wheelchair ramp behind the Council office on Maplelawn. Red is away for a couple of hours morning and evening, but says to tell folks to leave their donations at the foot of the wheelchair ramp if he is not there. If you're uncomfortable with that, please call and leave us a voice mail message at (937) 275-8599 so we can get back to you and make arrangements for someone to meet you when you arrive. Deanna Allen reports to us that Mazel's Department Store at 251 E. Alexandersville-Bellbrook Road in Centerville (Cross Point Center) has a "Back Pack Buyout" going on, with prices at $5.99 - $7.99 each. Also, unspecified school supplies at $.99 each. (Arlene) Clothing drive to aid Indians Collections for reservations under way By Cathy Mong e-mail address: cathy_mong@coxohio.com Dayton Daily News The 10th annual winter clothing and school-supplies trip by the Miami Valley Council for Native Americans to Indian reservations will be Sept. 1. This year, volunteers again will make the 3,000-mile round trip, camping out each night, as they make stops on the Cheyenne River, Standing Rock and Crow Creek Indian reservations, all Sioux Nation, in South Dakota; as well as the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Lame Deer, Mont. The council is expecting to reach 2,000 children this year, said Guy Jones, a founder of the MVCNA and president of its board of trustees. Donations of bookbags, paper, binders, pencils and other classroom basics, as well as warm outerwear such as coats, gloves, hats and scarves and boots of all sizes are being accepted, said volunteer Deanna Allen, in charge of this year's collection. Cash donations also will be accepted to help defray cost of truck rentals and gasoline. Checks may be made payable to MVCNA, 3203 N. Main St., Dayton 45405. For more information, call 275-8599. Contact Cathy Mong at 225-2353 or cathy_mong@coxohio.com [From the Dayton Daily News: 07.31.2002] posted by Webmaster@ AIM Support 10:59 PM
Sunday, August 04, 2002Subject: URGENT: Need school supplies Friends, This is an urgent call for school supplies. We are delivering school supplies to approximately 625 children. We have received only 10 boxes of school supplies; this is not nearly enough! This is an urgent call for donations of school supplies. Now is the time to buy school supplies; all retail stores are having sales. Please purchase school supplies and get them to Bill Boswell immediately. E-mail him at aimohio@aol.com Please help us! 10 boxes is not nearly enough for 625 children! Thank you! ====================================== From: TMVCNA89@aol.com To: aimsupport@earthlink.net Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [Friends of the AIM Support Group] URGENT: Need school supplies Hello Out There, Saw your call for supplies, that needs to done every other day. Keep up the work, but here is something that I want to share with you and some of your friends. Clothing and School Supply Drive It was during the fall of 1992, I received a letter from the Church of God in McLaughlin, SD. That's my hometown, they know me back there and they knew what I've been doing that year as well. 1992 was the year of the so-call quincentennial of the so-called discovery of America. America's history was being challenged, but there was a bigger challenge, the survival of the people. I received the letter just after halloween, by then there had been 67 inches of snow. A record snow accumalation had just got started. In his letter the pastor told me of children going to school wearing 3 and 4 sweatshirts cause they didn't have coats nor hats and gloves.We put out a call to the media and to our friends and supporter. Along with the letters we send out our prayers as well. We received an answer to our prayers and letter with over 500 childrens coats,hats and gloves. We left for South Dakota on December 18th and arrived on the 20th of December. Ironically that was anniversary of Bigfoot and his followers departure from Standing Rock also the death of Sitting Bull. It was Sitting Bull you said "let us put our minds together and see what we can do for our children" We were seeing to the children that year. The following day, they were lining up in 20 below weather, the church was to small to fit them all in. I had with me 8 volunteers and they were working as hard as they could and as fast as they could. At the end of the first day we fitted over 300 kids with coats, hats and gloves. On the second day we started again, it was on the second day that the school supply drive got its start. A mother had brought her son and was telling me that her son was failing in school. She ask if I could talk with him, I question the young man wanting to know, why? why was he failing. After a few moments he looked at me and said cause "I don't have any paper and pencils" Here was a young boy who was being called a failure cause he didn't have paper and pencils. Imagine, not having a pencil nor paper, it's hard to do your school work without them. That young boy graduated two years ago and is now in the military he wasn't a failure after all. This year we will going back again and we are adding another stop to our schedule. We will be going to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Lame Deer, MT. In years past we have delivering school supplies to 4 reservations in South Dakota reaching over 1600 children each year. Education is important to non-Indian children and its important to Indian children as well to survive in todays world. Please help.... "Let us put our minds and resources together, and help the generations to come" Sincerely, Guy W. Jones posted by Webmaster@ AIM Support 10:26 AM Last updated:
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