2006 Holiday Edition

15 January 2007

Compiled & Edited by:

Leslie Gray

Serving 5,000 active-duty junior-enlisted

military service members and their families
each month with over 40 free programs!

Happy Holidays!
This is our first annual
special holiday edition - our
effort to capture *all* of the
events we provide to our
local military during the busy
and stressful holiday season.

Family Outreach - 20th Annual Holiday Toy Program

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Holiday Toy Program (cont.)

This holiday season we served a whopping 418 families, which included 574 children, through the
20th Annual Holiday Program! Of those families served, 295 received 2 toys per registered child and
a commissary gift certificate; the remaining 123 received toys only. We called in the entire waitlist,
so everyone who signed up got a chance to access the program.

In addition to the support the Holiday Toy Program received from numerous individuals – some
sending checks all the way from Illinois and Virginia – we would like to recognize the following San
Diego businesses and organizations for their contributions:

Downtown Lions Club
FOCUS
BAE Systems
Women’s Day Magazine
Welcome Club of Scripps Ranch
San Diego Madres
Santa Fe Christian School
Christian Women of Coronado
Golden Triangle Rotary
Spa Wars
City of Escondido
Kiwanis of El Cajon
AT&T
Clairemont Republican Women
Pacific Beach Women’s Club
Metropolitan Correctional Center
Optimist Club of El Cajon Valley
North Island Credit Union
Intel
Mt. Miguel Covenant Retirement
Wandering Elks of El Cajon
San Diego Self Storage
Kiwanis Club of San Diego
Navy Exchange @ 32nd Street
Navy Region SW – employees
Kiwanis Club of El Cajon Valley
San Diego Padres
Peninsula Lions Club
Mission Beach Women’s Club
Paradise Valley Hospital
St. Therese Academy
Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce
Kensington Optimists
VFW Post 2082 of Lemon Grove
Council of Community Clinics
Grossmont Toys R Us
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Family Outreach
Christmas Adopt-A-Family

Family Outreach
additionally sponsors the
Christmas Adopt-A-Family
program - this year
accommodating 30
families! Provisions are
provided by individuals or
businesses based on a
“wish list” from the family.
Above/Right: Tierrasanta
resident Randy Schimka
plays Santa to a military
family along with Family
Outreach social workers
Jane Beers, Amanda Cross,
and Coleen Cobbs.

Active Duty - Christmas Home Hospitality

Above: Women’s Council of the Navy League -
Mary Vay, Betsy Frankle, Bill Bridge (Santa) and
Christmas @ Naval Medical Center
Maria Taggart (Mrs. Clause)

The Christmas Spirit was alive and well at the ASY offices located in Naval Medical Center. Many
organizations and individuals from the San Diego community came down for visits to show support
for active duty military patients. Patients were lucky enough to receive gift cards, stockings,
cookies, and other goodies from Santa and all his helpers. And yes, for the record, none of the
patients were on Santa’s naughty list!

Many thanks in particular to Lincoln Management’s Sam Merrick (our incoming Executive Director
already spreading cheer and good will for the ASY) and Women’s Council of the Navy League for
making the holidays special for patients at Naval Medical Center!

Christmas Morning @ The Hard Rock Cafe

For more information on how YOU

can make a difference…

info@asymcasd.org
858.751.5755
www.asymcasd.org