?Dear neighbors,
With just one week left until we start to negotiate our order with the blanket factory in Tlaxcala, we are at 65% of our goal of raising $67,000 pesos.
We need to raise $23,000 more pesos by Oct. 16. Otherwise, we will likely order fewer blankets than the 840 blankets we ordered last year.
I don¡¯t want to pressure anyone to donate who is not interested or able, but if you do wish to support the blanket drive and haven¡¯t yet donated, please consider donating now. Dieter Storr will collect your donation (I am away on vacation), or you can leave an envelope at the Cafe. (Write ¡°Blanket Drive¡± and your name on the envelope you leave at the Cafe.) The staff at the Cafe have been collecting envelopes for us.
Dieter can also receive a Zelle transfer from a US bank account. Contact him at dwstorr@... for details before you use Zelle.
A few people have emailed Dieter or me, committing to a donation upon returning to Los Labradores. We have included those commitments in our totals. We will include future donation commitments (to be honored later) in our funding total, when we begin discussions with the factory next week.
Again, we appreciate everyone¡¯s generous contributions. We hope others will donate within the next 7-10 days, so we can deliver much needed blankets to our neighboring communities again this November.
Sincerely,
Bruce Brogan
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La Cuadrilla last year.
Los Ju¨¢rez last year
La Palma last year
Frank Hebert, Dieter Storr and Mike Malone loading blankets to deliver at La Palma, last year.
