Thank you, SLO County: We sent 5,000 postcards to NorCal fire victims
As we head into Thanksgiving, the timing is perfect to extend huge thanks for our community’s passionate support of the “SLO County Cares” postcards for Northern California fire victims.
With hands-on help from too many people, businesses and organizations to name, nearly 5,000 handwritten messages made their way from SLO County and into the hands of people devastated by the fire.
Special thanks to The Tribune for saying yes to a quickly authored Viewpoint piece that launched the campaign and generated immediate response. Our friends at Central Coast Printing, CRS, UPS/Marigold and Cal Poly University Graphics provided printing, and the team at Barnett Cox & Associates coordinated all the details.
We shipped bundles of cards over two weeks, and heard back from one Sonoma County relief center volunteer who shared that people were clinging to the cards after reading them, noting, “a postcard with a warm note is now everything to them.”
Thank you, all of you, who lent a hand and made a difference. I am continually moved by the power of our community.
Maggie Cox, Barnett Cox & Associates, San Luis Obispo
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This story was originally published November 21, 2017 at 8:40 AM with the headline "Thank you, SLO County: We sent 5,000 postcards to NorCal fire victims."