To: All Baking Crumbs and Treat the Troop Supporters
Cookie Results to Date: Over A HALF MILLION !! 534,162 (as of 4/10/12) 65 boxes were packed on April 10 containing 661 1/2 dozen or 7,932 cookies bringing our grand total to 534,162 cookies sent! Next Cookie Packings: ** Tuesday, May 15 - 10:30AM - Team 3 (West/Terry) ** Tuesday, June 12 - 10:30AM - Team 1 (Southard/Poulos) Emanuel Lutheran Church, 2444 North Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Reminder - please label if your cookies contain nuts or peanut butter! AND BAKERS - No Chip Cookies - M&M's can be substituted! Help - We Need Snacks! Our shelves are almost bare – we really need beef jerkey, individually packaged nuts, crackers, wrapped candy (hard or soft), red licorice, tootsie rolls, etc. May - October anything that won't melt !  Total Postage Expense: As of 4/10/12: $71,365.17 April 10th postage: $874.25 Contributions received in March: *JEMH Gift shop c/o Theresa Slevin: 75.00 *Mary Lou Arkfeld: 20.00 *Ms. Judy Carver: 40.00 *Pizza King: 265.00 *Rotary Club of CB Centennial 70276: 496.00 *Twentieth Century Merrymakers Club c/o Ms. Betty Schmidt: 50.00 * Mr. Davie Burke: 10.00 *St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Ladies Guild: 100.00 Additional Kudos to: * Nancy Lienemann’s Omaha Brownie Troop who sold 44 boxes of Girl Scout cookies designated to be sent to deployed troops. The Brownie's also sent letters and drawings  * Harmony Court for their comfort items and postage donations * Julie Morton & Iva Lee for silverware bags! * Polly Hoff for donating a huge bag of comfort items * Elaine Russell for working with Lewis Central’s second grade students in Mrs. Donner’s & Ms. Stenlund’s classes who wrote letters. Jeanette Cram, Treat the Troops Founder, Authors Book: "Soldiers, Cookies & the Crumbs" Simply go to amazon.com to order. Attention Teachers: Iowa Cookie Crumb and teacher, Elaine Russell, has developed a lesson plan for students to write letters to the troops.  Per Elaine, "It is not hard for a teacher to have the students write the letters. What is difficult is finding the resources to inspire the writing. I found a great book at the library last year. It is called The Impossible Patriotism Project. I have ordered four copies from Amazon that I can share with teachers who want to have kids write letters." For more information, email Elaine at g2204@cox.net. Note: Thanks Elaine - we know the troops love letters, notes and drawings from the kids! Below are some that will be sent in our May 15th packing:
"Dear Soldier, Thank you for serving our Country. I am a second grader at Titan Hill. My dad was in the Air Force. I appreciate that you stand up to help us have freedom and we hope you stay safe and come home soon. Your friend, Jillian"
"Dear Soldier, Thank you for giving us our Freedom. We hope you stay safe and come home soon. Your Friend, Jr"
Silverware Pouches: Thanks for the great response to our sewed silverware pouches - but we need more.  If you'd like to sew and use up some of your remnants (patterned, denim or even collegiate themed!) : Dimensions are 12" x 7" (finished width 3 1/2") and the drawstring cord 18". One 4-H group used a shoestring as the ends were finished and easier to thread. The pouch holds a knife, fork and spoon nicely. Reminder: Along with the pouches, we need to fill with silverware which can be new, used and/or mismatched! Please keep us in mind when you're replacing your old sets and/or buying new!  Got Jeans? Baker Julie Morton likes to work with denim in sewing her silverware pouches. She would like to make more - but she needs material. If you have worn out jeans you'd like to donate, please bring to any of the packings. Bits and Pieces - Supporters Bill and Evonne Williams' moving photo exhibit of fallen Nebraskans and western Iowans in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.  The Eagles of Pottawattamie County Project and the Iowa's Freedom Rock artist, Ray "Bubba" Sorenson are also featured. | SELECTED NOTES FROM OUR MILITARY  RECIPIENTS:From: Derek Bice Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 8:21 AM To: iowacookiecrumbs@hotmail.com, do_over@cox.net Subject: Thank You I know it's a little late, but I wanted to thank you for the snacks that you had sent for my Marines. While I was located in Delaram, Afghanistan. Thank you for your support, all of my Marines have returned to states. Thanks again for your time and support. SSgt Bice From: Mullen, James F MAJ USAF USAFRICOM CJTF-HOA CJ5 Date: Friday, March 30, 2012 11:42 AM To: iowacookiecrumbs@hotmail.com, do_over@cox.net, mgarst Subject: TY (UNCLASSIFIED) Dear Abbie, Deann, Matt, Members of the Rotary Club, and of course, the members of The Iowa Cookie Crumbs, Thank you so much for the various cookies and other goodies that we received this week. What a generous, thoughtful surprise. Obviously I cannot eat all of these goodies so they sit on the edge of my desk and little by little they disappear. I seem to get a lot more visitors as of late. And, just so you know (especially Deann Over) all the branches of the military are here in my building to include the Marines, and they all love the goodies. The office I am in has mainly Navy personnel and I am the only AF member. One guy is from Craig, CO, one is from Bowie, MD, one is from Detroit, MI via NYC, and the last is from San Diego, CA. I hail from Philadelphia, PA but was raised in Maple Shade, NJ. Unfortunately, your cookies were enjoyed by a Penn State fan. Now, don't get upset....I have always liked the Hawkeyes, even when they broke my heart over the last few years with their dominance over the Nittany Lions. I like the close games that have been played. It's OSU & Michigan that we have to gang up on. Anyway, I am a Hospital Administrator in the AF assigned in Virginia. I met my wife Shelly in the military 20 years ago and we will be celebrating our 20th Anniv this summer. We have three daughters who are all teenagers. That's why it isn't so bad being over here sometimes. Just kidding! All is good here. We have a great team here and we have many countries who are on our side, helping us out. We truly appreciate your support and we can never thank you enough for being there for us. Thank you so much for the sweets!!! They are flying off the shelf, so to speak. Maybe we'll see you in Iowa (or maybe Nebraska if you're a fan of the Cornhuskers) as Penn St visits both teams this year. Be kind to those fans as it has been a nightmare year. Enjoy the Spring!! God bless! Jim JAMES F. MULLEN, Major, USAF, MSC J-5 Medical Planner, CJTF-HOA Subject: Care Packages (UNCLASSIFIED) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:42:41 +0430 From: bryan.j.hedrick Ms. Crawford, Your care packages this past year have been a tremendous blessing to the 325th Brigade Support Battalion and FOB Fenty. We have been very blessed by your support and want to thank you for all you and your organization has done for us. We will be redeploying to Hawaii at the end of this month, however if you wish to continue to support the troops here at FOB Fenty you can support CH Dwayne Hughes of 704th BSB, 4-4IN BCT. He will be my replacement on FOB Fenty and I am sure they would greatly appreciate your kindness. Thank you again for all you do and have done. Blessings, CH (CPT) Bryan J. Hedrick TF Mustang Chaplain Chapel OIC, FOB Fenty, Afghanistan Note: As mentioned at our packings – we are receiving many requests from Chaplains From: darron.ddale To: iowacookiecrumbs@hotmail.com Subject: You brought back allot of memories Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 19:21:02 -0500 This is Sgt Dale (smile) now stateside and my Mom forwarded your link to me with my letter.. made me smile and well even us “grunts” tough as we are get a bit emotional thinking back… a heck of a deployment but again thank you for getting all of my guys through the deployment. There’s no words during the rough nights and days and events of injuries that come along with our job but yall truly keep us going. And the cookies, silverware everything that you include are awesome.!! Gy Jacober is an awesome Marine; I’d follow him anywhere. Keep me on your mailing list I would love to give back and my family would too. With love, Sgt Dale From: Swartz, Adam Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 7:43 AM Subject: Thank You from Afghanistan Mrs. Crawford, My name is Lt. Swartz and I am the platoon commander for 1st platoon, Echo Co, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines. We just recently recieved your care package via our Battalion Chaplain, and I can't thank you enough. I would have preffered to write you by hand, but we are busy here and time is hard to come by, so I hope you understand. We are an infantry platoon of roughly 32 Marines, out here at our own little patrol base in the middle of southern Helmand province. We have been in consistent contact with the enemy since arriving in December. But morale is high, and we've managed to avoid major casualties. We just recently received some creature comforts (I.E. this satellite laptop) but things like homemade cookies are rare and always very appreciated. I too am from the midwest, a little town called Morris, IL, and attended college the University of Illinois before enlisting and eventually becoming an officer. So I understand your weather frustrations completely. So know that your possum story did bring a smile to my face, and reminds me of growing up in cornfields doing things like catching mice in cornbins and always dealing with rogue animals wandering into our yard. If you could pass on my sincere thank you to the rest of the Cookie Crumbs from myself and my Marines, I would very much appreciate it. We will be home in late May, but would welcome one more round of cookies (if you have time) before we stop getting mail. Groups of people like the Cookie Crumbs always make me proud to be from the Midwest, and remind me of why we do what we do out here. Thank You, Lt. Adam Swartz 2/6, Echo Co, 1st Plt Hi Deann, Tom Dow (Jr.) wanted us to make sure their thank you got back to the group because they are not able to use email right now, but he was able to skype his father once. Thanks, Roger Terveer - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 8:18:12 -0500 Subject: Cookies! My boy Tommy said they received the cookie package and he and the shop said thank you, thank you, thank you. They really appreciated it. Please relay the message. Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 2:49 AM Subject: Treat the Troops - Cookie Crumbs Good afternoon everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I received the cookies that you sent and they were a huge hit here at 1st Marine Logistics Group, Camp Leatherneck, AFG. All of the Marines were very thankful and enjoyed the home baked goods. Thank you so much for thinking of us out here and for all that each of you do; it means a lot to us knowing that there are so many supportive people thinking of us over here. God bless and thank you again for your support. R, Capt Michelle Over 1st MLG, I Marine Expeditionary Force Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan |
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