Popular Post John Morris Posted January 6, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 6, 2018 Final Debrief Once again I'd like to thank all those who participated and all those who sent positive thoughts and prayers to this wonderful project we held, and we will hold once again this year in 10 short months. Many of you did not win any prizes, but please keep in mind, the grand prize was helping the Merlo Family to have a wonderful memorable Christmas. So we all won in that regard! Thank you to all who participated! To view our project please visit this link Operation Ward 57 Adopt-a-Gold Star Family for the Holidays Project 2017 Raffle River hosted our raffle, you can see the total contributions by you, our supporters at Raffle River Patriot Woodworker Portal Total Raffle Proceeds and Expenditures Gross $2175.00 Service fees $66.91 PayPal fees $9.05 USPS fee $26.21 UPS fees $80.55 Gifts $1617.82 Check to Mrs. Merlo Disbursement to occur 01-23-18 $374.46 Balance $0.00 Fees Definitions Gross - Total contributions by you, our generous contributors Service fees - Fees charged by raffle system per transaction, for example, a $50.00 raffle ticket purchase had a $1.75 service fee attached. A $5.00 raffle ticket purchase had a $0.55 service fee attached. PayPal fees - Several raffle purchases were sent to us in proxy via PayPal, these fees are charges PayPal charged those transactions. USPS fee - Cost to send Ralphs Grocers gift card to the Merlo family. UPS fees - Cost to send boxes of gifts that were sent to us by our membership for the Merlo's. Gifts - The amount that was spent for the Merlo family. Check to Mrs. Merlo - The remainder of the funds in the coffers to be sent to the Merlos on January 23, 2018. (The Patriot Woodworker community will update this debrief topic with a copy of the check.) Balance - Account clear and closed. Gifts and Disbursements General children's gifts for Charlie and Camilla, ($653.27) see screen shots and pdf attachments. Disney gift card for a day at the park for the family in the amount of ($500.00). A Christmas meal Ralphs Grocers gift card in the amount of ($200.00). A set of house hold oils ($248.25) for their home as requested by Mrs. Merlo, these are the latest rave called Essential Oils. The organic oils are poured into a diffuser and steamed into the home. A check in the amount of ($374.46) to be mailed to Mrs. Merlo. Please open PDF's attached below to see gifts purchased, and shipping receipts. I am sorry but I cannot show screen shots of the PayPal fees or the Raffle River Fees for security purposes. If anyone is very curious of the Raffle River Fees and PayPal fees, please contact me in a private message and I'll do my best to disclose the fees via personal email. Questions? If anyone has any questions at all regarding this project, and how your proceeds were used, please do not hesitate to PM me or one of our admins, or you can email me at administrator@thepatriotwoodworker.com. To the best of my ability I have shown a full disclosure in this topic, if you see any errors or accidental omissions please feel free to call us out here by replying to this topic. I am not perfect, so I may have missed something. Screen shots of Charlies and Camilla's gifts you, our generous donors purchased the children. In closing We want to thank everyone again for their participation in this years Christmas project, we are very proud of how our Patriot Woodworkers, guests, and sponsors came to the table, and made this all happen. Thank you everyone!!!!!!! There are a few gifts that were sent to us by a couple of our members, to be shipped to the Merlo Family, we are going to showcase those items in a separate topic, they are beautiful and special! Mrs. Merlo contacted us earlier this week and she and her kids have been down with the flu, she stated she would like to send some pictures of the kids and some gifts, and a thank you, as soon as she is up and about. Meanwhile we hope you enjoy some clippings of emails sent to us by Mrs. Merlo: Quote Good morning I wanted to update you on Disney gift card it arrived yesterday evening thank you so much will send you pictures of kids and gifts. I’m actually very sick I caught what Charlie had merry Christmas god continue to bless you all thank you Patriot Woodworker's! ~ 12-27-17 Quote Hi Yes mr Charlie has the flu just left the doctors been a long day but I just received the Ralph’s gift card. So excited to cook and bake thank you :))) ~ 12-22-17 Quote Yes I’m keeping a look out for those cards and will let you know ASAP. Yes I receceived the boxes with home made labels yesterday or the day before I’m restless my Charlie is sick but I can honestly say that you truly brought so much peace with knowing the kids will have an amazing Christmas. Everyday I’m just in awe of how blessed we are to have had such amazing angels and elf’s making this Christmas so special. I will send pictures as well have a beautiful day and beautiful holiday ~ 12-22-17 Quote I’m just blown away by The Patriot Woodworker's and yourself with all you have done and are doing for me and the kids wow thank you again ~ 12-18-17 Quote I wanted to update you i have received 3 boxes I only opened 1 haven’t had the chance to be sneaky and check the rest but I wanted to update you the one I opened had gifts bagged with board game chutes and ladders Thank you thank you wow how this helped mom no stress on Christmas xoxo ~ 12-13-17 Quote Wow this is a blessing and I get emotional reading these messages. Thank you for all the support and help Camilla and Charlie are going to be extremely happy. ~ 12-11-17 Quote The kids started circling the toy magazines and I just wanted to this list since I know December is going to be very busy for all of us so I’d figure I do this tonight while kids are sleeping. I’ll attach ideas of photos....funny kids. I can also make a list of practical things that can be very appreciated from mom Just giving you all ideas not trying to overwhelm anyone.Thank you again for blessings my angels. ~ 11-28-17 Quote John your Patriot Woodworker's are amazing thank you for everything you put forward with our family and with all military families you have blessed with your respect and honor for our fallen. Thank you. Talk soon. Have a beautiful day! ~ 10-26-17 Quote This is Nicole Merlo and email is received. Wow thank you for your kind words, Ivan definitely loved serving and giving his all to his country. Thank you so much for blessing our Christmas this year. ~ 10-20-17 Attachments merlo_kidsgifts.pdf merlo_gifts.pdf Stick486, Al B, Cal and 2 others 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandyDan Posted January 7, 2018 Report Share Posted January 7, 2018 That's wonderful. I'm sure they had a great Christmas. Feels good to be a part of it. John Morris, Grandpadave52, honesttjohn and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadio Posted January 7, 2018 Report Share Posted January 7, 2018 Thanks for the posts, John, you did good putting this together and carrying it through, I don't know how you have the time and energy to do all that you do in a day. Thanks for letting us participate in this wonderful act of helping and giving to this wonderful grateful family. Herb John Morris, Al B, Grandpadave52 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stick486 Posted January 7, 2018 Report Share Posted January 7, 2018 nicely done John... John Morris, honesttjohn, Al B and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Howe Posted January 7, 2018 Report Share Posted January 7, 2018 Ditto to all above. I'm happy to have helped. Cal, Grandpadave52, honesttjohn and 1 other 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnewj Posted January 7, 2018 Report Share Posted January 7, 2018 Thank you for all of your hard work, John. I know this was a time consuming project on your end, especially, with you under the weather towards the end. From my side what I did was a very small part of a much larger and generous group of great people. I'm just glad that I could be a small part of making a wonderful memory for this family. honesttjohn, Al B, Cal and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honesttjohn Posted January 7, 2018 Report Share Posted January 7, 2018 Cool Beans !!!! Cal, Grandpadave52 and Al B 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p_toad Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 I would add my own "thanks to all" for this effort. Al B, Cal, honesttjohn and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Grandpadave52 Posted January 8, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Thanks and blessing John for all of your coordination, dedication and time toward such a worthy cause. Even when you were sick as well. Like it or not, you're a Hero in all this too! Reading the emails clips from Mrs. Merlo said it all! I'm glad we all could help remove a bit of the sting from their loss and give some joy to them on this day. Just visualizing the excitement of those kids on Christmas morning makes this 'ole geezer happy! Gene Howe, schnewj, p_toad and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Howe Posted January 9, 2018 Report Share Posted January 9, 2018 Well said, Dave. Grandpadave52 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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