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MARCH
1st - 9am-6pm - Redner's Donation Collection - Nesquehoning, PA
8th - 9am-6pm - Redner's Donation Collection - Shenandoah, PA
15th - 9am-6pm - Redner's Donation Collection - Schuylkill Haven, PA
29th - 3:30pm - St. Joseph's Parish Donation Collection - Summit Hill, PA
30th - 8:30am - St. Stanislaus Parish Donation Collection- Summit Hill, PA
30th - 10:30am - St. Joseph's Parish Donation Collection - Summit Hill, PA
APRIL
5th - 3:30pm - SS. Peter and Paul Parish Donation Collection - Lehighton, PA
6th - 7:30am & 9am & 11am - SS. Peter and Paul Parish Donation Collection - Lehighton, PA
12th - 9am-6pm - Mallards Market Donation Collection - Lehighton, PA
26th - 6:30pm - SS. Peter and Paul Parish Donation Collection - Tamaqua, PA
27th - 7:30am & 10am - SS. Peter and Paul Parish Donation Collection - Tamaqua, PA
MAY
3rd - 9am-6pm - Jim Thorpe Market Donation Collection - Jim Thorpe, PA
17th - 9am-6pm - Wal-Mart Donation Collection - Lehighton, PA
23rd - 4pm-Late - Donation Collection - Stay At Home Festival - Summit Hill, PA
24th - 4pm-Late - Donation Collection - Stay At Home Festival - Summit Hill, PA
25th - 4pm-Late - Donation Collection - Stay At Home Festival - Summit Hill, PA
JUNE
1st - 11am-4pm - Donation Collection - Anthracite Region Antique Automobile Club of American Car Cruise - at the #9 Mine - Lansford, PA
7th - 9am-6pm - Wal-Mart Donation Collection - Tamaqua/Hometown, PA
Please check back regularly for more events and updates.
Contact our Marines Helping Marines Chairman, Ted Bienkowski,
if you want to make a donation, want to help, or have a question.
Ted's phone number is (570) 645-9535.
*You don't have to be a Marine Corps League member to help. Anyone can help!
Additional "Marines Helping Marines" NEPA Sponsors:
Underlined Sponsors Below Transfer You To The Newspaper Story or Sponsor's Website.
Times News Newspaper & Pencor Services, Inc. - PA
Tobyhanna Army Depot Federal Credit Union - PA
Gary Biesiadecki - Hitchock, TX
Switchback Mini Mart, Inc. - Summit Hill, PA
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Callahan, Jr. - Hockessin, DE
Hiles Bros Companies, Summit Hill, PA Web
Silberline Manufacturing Company Inc. - PA
The Strum Firm, Inc. - Palmerton, PA
Mr. And Mrs. William Moyer - Tamaqua, PA
Mrs. Elsie Smale - Palmerton, PA
(In loving Memory of her late husband, Marine Cpl Lee F. Smale, WWII)
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Stockhausen Jr., Lehighton, PA
Marlene Basiago - Helping Hand Clinic - Summit Hill, PA Web
"Marines Helping Marines" Official Website
Keep Scrolling Down For More Info and Photos...
The "Marines Helping Marines", wounded Marines program, was established in the Spring of 2003 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital to provide extensive support for injured Marine Corps personnel and Navy FMF Corpsmen returning from the war on terror in the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. Since then, the program has grown to include Balboa Naval Hospital , San Diego- Brooke Army Hospital, San Antonio- Walter Reed Hospital, Washington DC and the Wounded Warrior Regiment at both Camp Pendleton and Camp LeJeune.
What began as an effort to provide emotional support to these wounded Marines and Corpsmen quickly expanded into a need to provide material support in the form of needed health and comfort items. The injured Marines arrive at the hospital with no more than the hospital gowns on their backs. While the hospital provides the basic toilet items, very often, more is needed.
Currently, in addition to personal comfort items, the Marine Corps League provides financial assistance to the families who are visiting their Marines (taxi vouchers, restaurant vouchers, phone cards and limited housing funding) outings to professional baseball games for “outpatient” Marines (they are recognized by the PA announcer), C-D players, C-Ds, DVD movies, television sets and DVD players for the rooms (due to a shortage of TV’s in the hospital). Airline tickets and travel money to wounded Marines for emergency leave. We hold monthly cookouts on the hospital grounds for the walking wounded, and their visiting families, and the hospital staff to lift their spirits and speed their recovery.
Click HERE to view "Marines Helping Marines" two-sided pamphlet.
Our 2008 "Marines Helping Marines" Campaign Photos
2008 Slideshow
PHOTOS
Marlene Basiago O.T.R./L., P.T. owner of the “Helping Hand Clinic” in Summit Hill and winner of the Times News “Pay It Forward” Contest receives a 2008 Certificate of Appreciation from Ted Bienkowski, Chairman of the Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League “Marines Helping Marines” Campaign for her support of Marines Helping Marines.
The Jim Thorpe Market receives a 2008 Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League "Marines Helping Marines" Certificate of Appreciation. Pic (left to right) Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League member Andrew Leibenguth, Jim Thorpe Market Owner Frank Pasdon, and Ted Bienkowski, Schuylkill-Carbon Marine Corps League “Marines Helping Marines” Chairman.
Fr. Linkchorsa, Pastor of the SS Peter andPaul Catholic Church of Tamaqua, receives a 2008 Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League "Marines Helping Marines" Certificate of Appreciation from Ted Bienkowski, Chairman, for his church's support of our "Marines Helping Marines" Campaign.
Fr. Ed Essig, Pastor, receives a 2008 Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League "Marines Helping Marines" Certificate of Appreciation from Ted Bienkowski, Chairman, for the support the SS Peter and Paul Church gave to our "Marines Helping Marines" Campaign.
Fr. James Burdess, Pastor of the Roman Catholic Community of Summit Hill, accepts a Certificate of Appreciation for both Saint Stanislaus' Church and Saint Josephs' Church for their support of our Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League "Marines Helping Marines" 2008 Campaign from our "Marines Helping Marines" Chairman Ted Bienkowski. Redner's Warehouse Market in Schuylkill Haven (via Assistant Store Director Brad Quinter) received a 2008 "Marines Helping Marines" Campaign Certificate of Appreciation from Ted Bienkowski (left) of the Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League "Marines Helping Marines" Campaign.
Redner's Warehouse Market in Shenandoah (via Store Manager Carl Graf) received a 2008 "Marines Helping Marines" Campaign Certificate of Appreciation from Ted Bienkowski (right) of the Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League "Marines Helping Marines" Campaign.
Redner's, in Nesquehoning, received a 2008 "Marines Helping Marines" Campaign Certificate of Appreciation. Pic (left to right) Cheryl Laub of the Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League, Redner's Store Director Ms. Lois Gasser, and Ted Bienkowski, "Marines Helping Marines" Chairman of the Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League.
Silberline Manufacturing received a "Marines Helping Marines" 2008 Certificate of Appreciation for their generous support. Pic(left to right) Andrew Leibenguth of the Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League, Plant Manager Stephen Gage, and Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League "Marines Helping Marines" Chairman Ted Bienkowski.
Mr. Daniel Dopira, President of the Switchback Mini Mart, Inc. in Summit Hill, PA receives a Certificate of Appreciation from Ted Bienkowski, Schuylkill-Carbon Marine Corps League “Marines Helping Marines” Chairman for his support of the 2008 Campaign.
Mrs. Lisa Hiles, of Hiles Brothers Companies in Summit Hill, PA receives a Certificate of Appreciation from Ted Bienkowski, Schuylkill-Carbon Marine Corps League “Marines Helping Marines” Chairman, for their support of the 2008 Campaign.
2007 "Marines Helping Marines" Campaign Photos
Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League members Ted Bienkowski and James Laub selling Marine rose pins for our "Marines Helping Marines" program.
Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League member Joe Balogash selling Marine rose pins for our "Marines Helping Marines" program.
Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League members Al Cheese, Joe Balogash, and Ted Bienkowski taking donations for our "Marines Helping Marines" program.
Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League member Ted Bienkowski giving Lehighton Wal-Mart an award for helping our "Marines Helping Marines" program.
Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League members Pastor Robert Johnson II, Cheryl Laub, and Ted Bienkowski taking donations for our "Marines Helping Marines" program.
Commandant James Laub(left) presents Ted Bienkowski the prestigious 2007 Marine of The Year plaque for his outstanding work on our 2007 Wounded Marines Program and his support of all the League's activities.
Thank You For Your Support!
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