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We had our usual Thanksgiving buffet at the Texas Stadium parking lot before the Dallas Cowboys / Minnesota Vikings game (we won the first Quarter). We have always had dinner on the parking lot for over 20 years (less mess in the house).

I wanted to let you know that we collected close to a thousand cans of food for the Women's Crisis Center again this year. It was so cool to watch their truck drive off with its headlights pointing up in the air, because of the weight of the cans in the back. This is so vitally important because the United Way dropped them from their budget.

We will now collect toys almost the exact same way we collected cans. We put up flyers all over the clinic that say for each $10 toy a patient brings in, we will put them a chance in our drawing for $100, $75, and $50 credit toward their account. It also states that their friends and families can become new patients with a $25 toy and it will cover the cost of exam, x-rays, and ROF.

The same 4x8 ply-board we used for Thanksgiving we will now cover in red and green felt to now place pictures of the patients that bring in Toys. We also change our message on the TV's throughout the clinic (it looks like a weather bulletin) announcing the Toy drive.

Starting Monday, (one week break between drives) it will be very important for a flyer to placed on each chart, so the doctor can personally ask each patient to participate. There will also be a special card placed on each chart for the patient to give to family or friends so they can become new patients for a $25 toy.

We have done this for years and the Crisis Center depends on these toys for the Children stuck in the center during Christmas. Any excess toys are saved for birthdays. Last year we collected over a hundred toys.

Remember, "You have to Give to Receive."

Hope to see you in Vegas www.parkerseminars.com. By the way you need to make arrangements soon the flights and the Rio are getting full. I made my flight arrangements today and I had limited choices on times.