Hannah's Socks • warm feet, warm hearts

Many, many pairs of socks arrive in the Hannah's Socks office from all over the world. Most have nice letters with them. The letters give us a connection to the person sending the socks. I've always said that I would love to meet each person that has been involved in a sock collection. I got my wish last Thursday.

Les, Diane and their son Lester Sander drove from Loda, Illinois to Perrysburg, Ohio to bring 1,025 pairs of socks to help our homeless. Les had contacted me a few months ago by email and told me that they were going to do their part to help Hannah's Socks. He and his wife Diane had a bet going on to see how many socks they could collect. Diane set her sights high and she won the bet! Many people in their community got involved in the sock collection to help her get over 1000 pairs.

Thursday morning we got to meet the Sander family and their cousin Chris who is from Toledo. We talked, took pictures and then headed over to The Cherry Street Mission to take a tour and hand out socks to the homeless. If you've never toured Cherry Street, I suggest that you do. Avis and Yolanda and Rosalyn planned a very informative tour. All of us learned a lot that day. We even met a man who was soon to graduate from the Ready For Life program that Cherry Street offers. They do so much at Cherry Street that I want to share with everyone, but that will have to be another blog.

We appreciate the Sander family and everyone from their community that helped out! The socks got passed out that afternoon and as we all saw on the faces of the homeless they were very happy to receive new socks for their feet.