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H'T Hau 'oli Tiki Member Lamegoona Hills, CA Joined: Feb 03, 2005 Posts: 410	H'T Hau 'oli Tiki Posted posted on Thu, Apr 5, 2007 4:33 PM Wow! What an awesome time that was! Great getting to see everyone and meet CocoLoco and Mai Tai for the 1st time!! Thank you, Cheeky, for sharing your room, drinks and hospitality! Although we didn't win anything, I am so happy to hear about Holden's generosity! My Pops runs a charity called Cool Waters (not the charity recvg Holden's generosity). He takes food, supplies and school items to families that are kinda stuck in motels. They have just enough to stay in a room, not enough to get out and make deposit on a rental any where! You'd think it wouldn't be so bad, but it's not your average motels. These places are the least expensive. That means the oldest, most run down. Tourists do not stay at these places! There are gangs, drugs, filth. The parents (if there are 2!) work full time-plus. The kids are left to their own devices. The food is sparce. The clothing ratty. The kids have very little, as the rooms are so small and they can't store much. They usually sleep on the floor. The rooms are often shared by a lot of people. Not a Norman Rockwell setting. Amazingly, and completely WRONG...there are some MILITARY families that get stuck in this pattern!! Awesome that TC got to help!! Warms the cockles of my heart!

Wow! What an awesome time that was! Great getting to see everyone and meet CocoLoco and Mai Tai for the 1st time!! Thank you, Cheeky, for sharing your room, drinks and hospitality!

Although we didn't win anything, I am so happy to hear about Holden's generosity! My Pops runs a charity called Cool Waters (not the charity recvg Holden's generosity). He takes food, supplies and school items to families that are kinda stuck in motels. They have just enough to stay in a room, not enough to get out and make deposit on a rental any where! You'd think it wouldn't be so bad, but it's not your average motels. These places are the least expensive. That means the oldest, most run down. Tourists do not stay at these places! There are gangs, drugs, filth. The parents (if there are 2!) work full time-plus. The kids are left to their own devices. The food is sparce. The clothing ratty. The kids have very little, as the rooms are so small and they can't store much. They usually sleep on the floor. The rooms are often shared by a lot of people. Not a Norman Rockwell setting. Amazingly, and completely WRONG...there are some MILITARY families that get stuck in this pattern!!

Awesome that TC got to help!! Warms the cockles of my heart!

Post #297159 by Hau 'oli Tiki on Thu, Apr 5, 2007 4:33 PM