Halloween Candy Buyback for the Troops

    On the 2nd of November we had almost 250 children from the community bring in their excess Halloween candy.  We shut the office down early and opened up to buy candy back from the kids to send to the troops.  We paid them a dollar per pound of candy and gave out free toothbrushes, coupons to Coldstone, Jose's for free meals, and Gourmet Pizza Shoppe, buy one get one free.  

 The kids wrote letters and colored pictures for the troops.  The amazing thing about our community is that we continued to receive candy donations for two more weeks after the actual event.  Over five hundred pounds of candy was collected for the troops overseas.  Several kids donated the money right back to the troops. 

    We want to thank everyone for participating and giving up their candy to support our soldiers overseas.  We collected the candy as part of Operation Gratitude and we are going to be holding this event every year until all of the troops come home.