Dear Editor:
When Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years come so close together,
it is a little difficult to savor them!
Dear Editor:
When Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years come so close together, it is a little difficult to savor them! However, this year, since it is our last year as active officers, we made a pre-New Year’s Resolution: we would – and DID – savor them, and I’ll tell you why!
So many wonderful people have lent us a hand in many ways – the media (who would have known we needed help if it hadn’t been for those huge ads in The Dispatch?), volunteers, volunteer coordinator, bell-ringers (special thanks to city employees, Rotary Gilroy, Kiwanis, Radiation Detection Company, Home Town Buffet, Bumble Bee), food box packers, KSBW-TV and all those who participated and provided the “eats”, those who played music, cooked, processed applications, raked leaves, washed floors, sorted toys, helped distribute food and toys, organized the Adopt-a-Family, and the “Army behind the Army”, our wonderful advisory board and donors. Sorry we can’t manage a “group hug!”
By the time Christmas Day rolls around, usually the only thing Army Officers and employees have left to do is “crash.” This year, thanks to our volunteers, we were not only able to entertain family and friends but were also able to come back to work on the 26th. Thank you, Gilroy; thank you, San Martin; thank you, Morgan Hill!
Hector & Gerde Ramos, Gilroy
Submitted Tuesday, Jan. 7
