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Ranger Kids' Christmas Party

On December 7, Thomas & Hutton employees attended the annual Ranger Kids' Christmas Part at the Ranger Headquarters at Hunter Army Air Field in Savannah. The event entertains children and wives of those Rangers who are currently overseas.

Dan Gay had this to say about his experience: "It was an incredibly uplifting experience for all of us. As a matter of fact, everyone who gets involved with our Rangers and their families feel the same way. I am so thankful Danny [Stanley] got me involved with the Rangers."


(Rear) Dan Gay and Tony Crosby of Thomas & Hutton, Dick Eckburg (Front) Timothy Gay, Kellie Mennes, Jenilee Gay


Lowcountry Crisis Ministries


The 4th Friday of each month, several Thomas & Hutton Engineering Co. employees volunteer at the Lowcountry Crisis Ministries serving breakfast to the area homeless. Elliotte Quinn, T&H’s survey department leader for the Charleston region, heads up this effort. Volunteers purchase, cook and serve the food to about 80 homeless men and vary each month. July 2008’s volunteers, included: Dan Farley, Lisa Hollen, Nat and Nancy Hopper, Ken Nagel, and Drew and Donna Wadsworth.

Pictured above is Drew Wadsworth hard at work. For more pictures, visit: Lowcountry Crisis Ministries.


2008 Earth Day RecycleRama



Thomas & Hutton participates in Savannah’s 2008 Earth Day RecycleRama in Forsyth Park on April 19, 2008. Residential household items collected for recycling from many T&H employees included: paint (latex and oil only), tires, batteries, motor oil, newspaper, plastic 1 and 2, aluminum, electronics, goodwill Items, used eye glasses, cellular telephones and printer cartridges.

Above is a photo of the event and fellow T&H participant, Michael Hughes. Recyclable items were delivered by the truckload:


Knitters make goodwill hats, scarves for kids

Posted on Thu, Oct. 25, 2007
By Barbara D. Jones - For The Sun News

By mid-morning Oct. 4, 27 women were working together at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #10804 in Little River packing 577 sets of hats with matching scarves for children in orphanages in Afghanistan. Long work tables were covered with the items, which were knitted with loving care in varying designs and bright colors for children the knitters will never see.

Kathey Farley's son, Maj. Greg Farley, served with the 163rd Logistics Task Force at Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan, and told her about two orphanages just outside of Kabul that his unit adopted. She suggested perhaps the Ladies Auxiliary could help. He said the winters are terribly cold in Afghanistan, and as they talked, they decided hats and scarves would be a tremendous help.

"The Ladies Auxiliary was looking for a project to support the troops, and we came up with this idea, and it just sort of grew," Farley said.
"We had adopted a unit prior to this, and they had come back, so when we heard Kathey's son was going, we adopted his unit," auxiliary member Dana Fogner said. "We started it, and she started talking about it to her knitting group and got them involved."
The group grew to about 30 women; in addition to the Ladies Auxiliary, several area knitting groups in North Myrtle Beach and Calabash, N.C., joined the effort.

"Then they told friends, and we began to get hats and scarves from California, Ohio and Pennsylvania," Farley said. "Everybody had family in a different place, and the hats and scarves came in, and it just mushroomed."

As they were packing the boxes, someone commented to 93-year-old Mary Foran, a member of the knitters group at Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church, that she had probably knitted 40 hats all by herself.

She quickly corrected them - she had knitted 112 hats since July.
"This is so important because it's not only clothing these children so they will be warm for the winter, but it's bringing goodwill from the United States," Fogner said.

She said since the children think the hats and scarves are from the soldiers, this makes them and the general population feel kindlier toward the soldiers.

Tucky Sancibrian is a member of both the knitters group at Little Library and the Twilight Knitters.

"I was happy to be a part of working on that project to be helping the children and supporting our troops," she said.

"I guess what's so great about it is so many people trying to help," Farley said.

The Independent Insurance Agents of S.C. from Columbia contributed money toward the shipping charges. Thomas & Hutton Engineering Co. in Myrtle Beach raised more than $500 for additional shipping funds.

Hands on Wilmington - 4/28/07



Thomas & Hutton volunteered for Leadership Wilmington's Hands on Wilmington. The program is a part of a national movement for people to join in and roll up their sleeves and tackle community problems that would usually take hours/days to be completed within just 4 hours. There were a total of 1,700 volunteers from the community and 22 projects were completed.