JetCo Solutions is organizing the Veterans Wish List Drive, a benefit for the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans.

For those who want to be contributors, your part is as simple as buying and donating a pack of batteries or a collection of socks (see Wish List and drop site locations below). To get the collection stations started off, our co-sponsors can buy a couple of items, and then make sure employees, friends and family understand that they can contribute as well. When it’s all added up, it will mean a lot to our veterans of the United States Armed Forces.

Collections will continue through the month of October, and co-sponsors can accompany us to the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans when we deliver the goods on Nov. 7, just prior to Veterans Day. We would love to make a big splash with this, and the more of you we have involved the more productive and fun it will be!

Please contact Patrick at prevere@jetcosolutions.com or (616) 570-0067 to ask questions. Thank you!

Below is a categorized list of needs:

Everyday necessities

• New batteries:  C, D and AAA (Alkaline)
• New release DVD’s (No Blue-Ray capability)
• Gift cards to: Meijer, Gordon Food Service, Burger King, McDonalds, Wendy’s
• New postage stamps (prefer Forever Stamp) for letters and postcards
• Bic disposable lighters
• Large print paperback books
• Recent magazines (Published within last 6 months)

New clothing (original package)

• New men’s and women’s underwear; all types & sizes
• T-shirts & sweat shirts: all sizes, small to XXX large
• Sweat pants:  all sizes, small to XXX large
• Button-Down Shirts: all sizes, small to XXX large
• Men’s jeans and casual pants Size 40 and larger
• New socks (regular or diabetic, any color)
• New tennis shoes with Velcro closing and new shoe laces: white, black or brown

New, unopened personal care items

• Men’s body wash
• Aftershave and pre-electric shave, cologne
• Body lotion
• Power Stick body spray
• Mouthwash (alcohol free)
• New three-headed electric razors and replacement heads

Food items

• Individually wrapped miniature and full size candy bars
• Individually wrapped chips
• Crystal Light powdered drink mix, individual serving size

Small electronics (extreme need to replace decade-old models)

• Digital cameras (Looking for quantity of six Nikon COOLPIX S6300 Black 16 Megapixel Digital Camera – 26301, approximately $170 each)
• GPS devices (Looking for quantity of three TomTom GO Live 1535M dash-mount GPS units, approximately $200 each)
• Used-refurbished laptop computers, netbooks, tablets

 

Drop site locations

• 2/90 Sign Systems – 5350 Corporate Grove Boulevard SE, Grand Rapids
• 834 Design & Marketing, 560 Fifth Street NW, Suite 205, Grand Rapids
• DK Security – 5160 Falcon View Avenue SE  Kentwood
• i3 Solutions – 560 Fifth Street NW, Suite 404, Grand Rapids
• Ingenuity IEQ – 3600 Centennial Drive,  Midland
• JetCo Solutions – 560 Fifth Street NW Suite 303, Grand Rapids
• Light Corporation – 14800 172nd Avenue, Grand Haven
• Pratt Industries –2000 Beverly Avenue Southwest  Wyoming
• Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, 100 Monroe Center NW,  Grand Rapids
• The Studio Yoga – 933 52^nd Street SE, Kentwood
• Swift Printing –  404 Bridge Street, NW, Grand Rapids
• Tradewinds Credit Union – 4555 West River Drive NE, Plainfield Township
• Wells Fargo – 50 Monroe Avenue NW, Suite 400