We are at Borders Books in Dickson City, Pennsylvania today and tonight gift wrapping. Come visit and I’ll gift wrap your books or gifts.
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Category Archives: Our Journey
Upgraded Headway to 1.5
Our new theme has been upgraded to 1.5. I always seem to be upgrading something. Now lets hope everything works ok.
Uodate: the upgrade did not work and I am now back to 1.0. I’ll wait till after the holidays to try the upgrade again.
Upgrade to Wordpress 2.8
I’ve taken some time off to clear my brain after a long school year. Today I upgraded this site to WordPress 2.8 using simple scripts. I tried doing it manually but messed it up. I had to revert to a two week old backup. After upgrading to WP 2.7 via Simplescript, I upgraded to WP [...]
More Food For The Family
We spent the last of the money on Raymond for some other food items. I’m not sure how long this food will last. I hope we could do more in the future and for next Christmas season. Thank you all for you donations.
A Christmas Donation
We had one last gift wrapping session at Borders that brought in about $75.00 on December 22nd. For one person, I wrapped 12 gifts and she donated $20.00. It was bust all evening until about 11pm. Last year the gift wrapping table was in the front of the store where we did much better. This [...]
We wrapped the books
Our time at Borders went well. Not too busy though. We were there for about twelve hours and has some donations, but not as much as last year. The customers were friendly and appreciated having their books and gifts wrapped. By the end of our time there, I must say, I was an expert wrapper. [...]
Come To Borders Books Saturday, November 29th
We will be at Borders Books today in the Viewmont Mall in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Come in today and buy a gift and we will be happy to gift wrap it for you. I’m getting pretty good at wrapping. Hope to see you there.
A Science Lesson
During my last week in the Philippines I was invited to teach a science lesson at the local school. This is the school Raymond attends. I bought supplies to do the 3 color density lab since I only needed salt and food coloring. The Principal put both the sixth grade classes together for a [...]
A Rice Donation
The SPCS donated one large sack of rice, some fish and some bread to Raymond’s family. Pictured here is Raymond, his mom and dad and younger brother and sister. His other brother and sisters were not at home yet. We spoke with Raymond’s parents and they agreed to help make sure that Raymond and the [...]
A Summertime Visit Home
We are heading back to the Philippines to visit the family. While there, I hope to look for a small place to rent so that we have a home for the Shelter. We’ll be there for two months. School is just completed and with some time off, I hope to reflect on where we’ve been [...]
