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| Sampling of Toys ready for YFS Children – 12-11-2012 |
Toy Delivery to YFS – we met at 8:30 am on Tuesday Dec 11, 2012 at the RCWA Shop in the
basement of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Rapid City
to load up 724 toys and take them to YFS.
Dress code was warm clothes with red Santa hats.
Those in attendance included Lon Gose, Rick Weisbeck, Bel Felix, Larry Borg, Grant Coffin, and Bob and Kathie Buchanan.
Click on any photo below to see more:
Further details were documented in a story and video by Emily Szink at NewCenter 1 and can be found on the Newscenter One website:
Reporter Brian Sugden at KOTA TV also documented the story and the text can be found at:
http://www.kotatv.com/story/20316416/hundreds-of-toys-make-early-christmas-gifts-for-area-children
Fox News anchor Jack Caudill came to the event as well and provided his story and video at:
http://www.blackhillsfox.com/2012/12/11/Head-Start-kids-get-old-fashioned-Christmas-gift
Aaron Rosenblatt from the Rapid City Journal was on hand to take photos; they can be seen at:
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| Grant, Rick, Bob, Larry, and Bel pose with YFS Kids. |
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Watch the news tonight – KOTA, KEVN,
NewsCenterOne, and the Rapid City Journal were there to record the event! |
Other Deliveries. After the delivery to YFS, Rick Weisbeck and Larry Borg and Bob and Kathie Buchanan returned to the RCWA Shop to load up 200 toys for the Club for Boys. Rick also loaded up 70 toys for WAVI and Benji’s House.
Readiness Center
at Ellsworth Air Force Base on November 29th in time for their Christmas party
on December 1st, by Rick Weisbeck.
Larry Deibert delivered toys to Black Hills Habitat for Humanity on Dec
1st. We also loaded up Gary
Graves’ truck for his trip to Sioux Falls
for Needs Free. Julian Wigen delivered
toys to CASA.
Association (RCWA) have combined our love for woodworking and our love for kids
into a Toy Making Program – we have made and delivered over 4500 handcrafted
wooden toys to underprivileged children in South Dakota
since we started in 2008. This is an
ongoing program. We get satisfaction
from seeing children enjoying the toys, often their only gift.
of life for underprivileged children of the Black Hills
and other parts of South Dakota. Within our Rapid City Woodworkers
Association, we have developed a special year-round Toy Making Program for
making and distributing handmade holiday gifts and toys to charitable organizations
in the local area. More than a dozen
members work year around in their own garages (and sewing rooms) as well as in
monthly Saturday Toy Workshops to produce these quality wooden toys. Before Christmas, the toys are distributed to
various organizations in the area.
we made 300 toys our first year in 2008, 1260 in 2009, 1430 in 2010,
1620 toys in 2011. This year we have on
hand 2001 toys ready for distribution. Of those, we have packaged over 1650 toys. They were ready two weeks early this year, and
will soon be distributed to various organizations in the area.
To get to the HOME PAGE of the Rapid City Woodworking Association website, click on the link below:
Rapid City Woodworkers Association 