Hannah's Socks • warm feet, warm hearts

Big thanks go out today to the students in Mr. Beck's, Mrs. Warncke's and Mrs. Grime's classes at Wauseon Elementary School!

Mrs. Grimes writes:

I am excitedly writing to you because I have a large donation of socks! Two 4th grade classes at Wauseon Elementary School decided to do combine their business letter writing unit with a service project. Students wrote business letters to area Wauseon businesses requesting sock donations. Member of the community and parents graciously helped our students to collect over 700 pairs of socks! Thanks so much! It was a great experience for all our kids.

Way to go, kids!

We got three BIG boxes of socks from 7th graders in North Hampton, New Hampshire!

Thanks Andrew, Nicholas, Caleb and Zach for leading the Sock Drive at your school.

Big thanks go out today to recent Volunteer Of The Month Melissa, her daughter Callie, and everyone from Elmhurst Elementary, DeVeaux Jr. High, Toledo Technical Academy, and Zion United Methodist Church!

That's Callie pictured above with all the socks they collected. Thanks to all involved!

Ladies, break out your poodle skirts, bobby socks, saddle shoes and beehive hairdos!

Fellas, roll up those jeans and throw on a white T-shirt and leather jacket!

Join us Friday, May 21 at Navy Bistro Courtyard (at The Docks in Toledo) for a night of mingling with friends, enjoying great food and drinks, a costume contest, raffles, classic cars, a hula hoop contest and dancing to live entertainment provided by "oldies" group Denny R and Smooth Groove.

Click to check out all the details and order tickets -- don't miss out on a fun way to support Hannah's Socks!

Big thanks go out today from Kristen and everyone from her service sorority, Omega Phi Alpha, at BGSU!

Hannah as well as my husband Vic attended their event last night, where the theme was '90s Night. They played games and "went back to their childhood" in honor of Hannah. They collected two bags full of socks!

Thanks to all involved!

Big thanks go out today to elementary school student MacKenna of Archbold, Ohio, who recently organized a Sock Drive at her school by making posters and distributing flyers!

Her principle also made an announcement each morning encouraging the students to bring in socks. MacKenna's mom said her daughter enjoyed the responsibility of collecting and counting the socks each day. In four days the students collected more than 220 pairs of socks!

Hannah sends out a big "Thank you!" to MacKenna for all of her work organizing the Sock Drive, and to everyone at the school for learning about and helping Hannah's mission.

Big thanks go out today to Angie Davis and her Daisy Troop #10422!

They recently invited Hannah and I to meet all of them and to present Hannah with 80 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to hand out to the homeless we help biweekly at the Downtown Toledo Public Library.

The cookies were a real treat for the families that we serve. One of the fathers whose family is homeless said, "New socks and Girl Scout Cookies, it doesn't get much better than that." Another man said, "Thank you to Hannah for the socks and to the Troop for the wonderful cookies."

Thanks to all the volunteers who joined us today at the Downtown Toledo Public Library to hand out socks to our neighbors in need!

A recent Saturday, the day before Valentine's Day, the Hannah's Socks volunteers were at the Downtown Toledo Library to help "share the love" with our friends in need.

Cupid's helpers included a young married couple, a family with three young children, a group of young people from the Perrysburg YMCA, Hannah's Socks co-founder Vic Turner and his father-in-law, and yours truly :)

I think this was the biggest group of volunteers I'd ever seen at one time helping to "Care, Share, Give A Pair"! And it was a good thing we had a big group of volunteers, because we had lots of "love" to share with many socks, gloves, hats, scarves, tubes of lip balm, and bottles of hand moisturizer. We had three overflowing card tables full of boxes of pre-Valentine’s Day "goodies" to give away. What a wonderful way to celebrate the Valentine’s Day weekend! Thanks to all who came out.

Learn about volunteering with Hannah's Socks.

Lisa volunteers regularly with our Toledo-area team and shares her experiences in a weekly feature called "Volunteer Diary." Newsletter subscribers get to read her posts first.

Big thanks go out today to K. Bell Socks, a great company based in Los Angeles, for donating 300 pairs of socks to Hannah's Socks!

We partnered with K. Bell during a recent Twitter promotion, and they've been very generous with their time and resources.

You can find K. Bell and their "Socks that rock" on Twitter, on their Facebook Fan Page, or at their new website, www.kbellsocks.com. Thanks to Laura, Jann, and everyone at K. Bell for their support.