Sweets and Treats

No, this isn’t a picture of my Halloween spoils. These are just some of the things we collected and purchased to send to troops for Chanukah.

With the help of some of our readers, and some local members of the Jewish community in Pensacola we managed to send out a number of bulging boxes of goodies, CDs, DVDs, books, health items, and most importantly candles and menorahs. We received so much stuff that we wound up sending out a couple more boxes than we had expected to.

A special thanks goes out to the children of the religious school at Temple Beth El in Pensacola. They made a whole bunch of great Chanukah cards to wish the troops well that will accompany the packages to Iraq and Afghanistan.

The packages went out first thing this morning, then I expect about a month in transit. Hopefully we will start to hear from some of the lucky recipients soon after that!