Tennessee
134th Air Refueling Wing delivers gifts to East Tennessee Children’s Hospital
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – Youngsters at East Tennessee Kids’s Hospital had a shock go to from Santa Cops, who had been bearing items forward of the vacation season.
Airmen and volunteers with the 134th Air Refueling Wing Santa Cops program delivered $10,300 value of items to youngsters and their households at ETCH on Saturday, Dec. 3.
“The Santa Cops program is likely one of the highlights of our December Unit Coaching Meeting,” stated Col. Lee Hartley, 134th ARW Commander. “Giving again to a neighborhood who so enormously helps us is only a small gesture to say thanks for permitting us to name Knoxville dwelling for therefore a few years.”
In 2001, Airmen raised $600 to ship coloring books and crayons to ETCH, setting forth the annual Santa Cops program, which is now in its twenty first yr.
The 134th ARW now raises a mean of $9,000 annually with the help of personal organizations by way of golf tournaments, clay shoots and different actions that enable members to bond, whereas supporting a fantastic trigger.
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