10/7/09: Free gingerbread houses for military families
For immediate release
10/7/2009
Questions: Ken Swarner
253.584.1212
Swarner Communications announced today that the Fort Lewis Ranger newspaper, Gilchrist Motors and the Children's Museum of Tacoma will team to treat families from the 5th Stryker Brigade with a day of free gingerbread house making, Nov. 29 in Tacoma.
"These families are doing a courageous job tending the home fires while their loved ones are down-range in Afghanistan experiencing fierce battles with the Taliban – they deserve a day off from the real world," said Jim Kemp, general sales manager at Gilchrist Motors in Tacoma, Wa. "We are pleased to help offer the families of the 5th Stryker Brigade a day of free holiday fun."
The partnership brings three South Puget Sound institutions together to provide large gingerbread houses with loads of candy for decorating to 100 families hand-picked for the event. To be held in Gilchrist Motor's showroom at 6030 S. Tacoma Way in Tacoma, the Children's Museum of Tacoma provides a similar event as a fundraiser for their own museum in downtown Tacoma on the same day, but readily agreed to extend the program for free to the Stryker families. Examples of the houses may be seen here: www.childrensmuseumoftacoma.org/gingerbread-jamboree.
The event will run in two sessions, 50 families invited for a 10 a.m. to noon session, followed by 50 more from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
"I am so proud to live in a town where great organizations like Gilchrist and the Children's Museum can come together to help our military families," said Ken Swarner, publisher of the Fort Lewis Ranger newspaper.
For more information regarding this event, please call Ken Swarner at (253) 584-1212.
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10/7/2009
Questions: Ken Swarner
253.584.1212
Swarner Communications announced today that the Fort Lewis Ranger newspaper, Gilchrist Motors and the Children's Museum of Tacoma will team to treat families from the 5th Stryker Brigade with a day of free gingerbread house making, Nov. 29 in Tacoma.
"These families are doing a courageous job tending the home fires while their loved ones are down-range in Afghanistan experiencing fierce battles with the Taliban – they deserve a day off from the real world," said Jim Kemp, general sales manager at Gilchrist Motors in Tacoma, Wa. "We are pleased to help offer the families of the 5th Stryker Brigade a day of free holiday fun."
The partnership brings three South Puget Sound institutions together to provide large gingerbread houses with loads of candy for decorating to 100 families hand-picked for the event. To be held in Gilchrist Motor's showroom at 6030 S. Tacoma Way in Tacoma, the Children's Museum of Tacoma provides a similar event as a fundraiser for their own museum in downtown Tacoma on the same day, but readily agreed to extend the program for free to the Stryker families. Examples of the houses may be seen here: www.childrensmuseumoftacoma.org/gingerbread-jamboree.
The event will run in two sessions, 50 families invited for a 10 a.m. to noon session, followed by 50 more from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
"I am so proud to live in a town where great organizations like Gilchrist and the Children's Museum can come together to help our military families," said Ken Swarner, publisher of the Fort Lewis Ranger newspaper.
For more information regarding this event, please call Ken Swarner at (253) 584-1212.
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