Handicpped Kids

[BigAl]

WWATS NEWSFLASH !!
Come on all you coin collectors, it's time to really do something for a great cause.
These kids need this recreation and the thrill of finding foreign coins.
Keith Wills has been doing this for years now and the rewards are happy kids that otherwise would have very little they could do.
Please help after reading the message below.
BigAl
Posted By: K. Wills <Send E-Mail> (211.dallas-20rh16rt.tx.dial-access.att.net)
Date: Wednesday, 9 February 2005, at 9:59 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Foreign Coins for Handicap Children (Coinsurgeon)

D.B.C., sorry for the delay in answering you here, been real busy on the Virginia problem as president of WWATS. Yes the kids can use the foreign coins and it is very much appreciated. Your donation helps to keep the handicap children this activity through the summer session and that is a very great thing. For every kid that goes to the camp, over 4000 a summer, gets a chance because of your donation and others like you to use a metal detector for the very first time. I can not explain the look on these kids faces, when they find that first foreign coin. Some of the kids are blind and can hear the beep and run their hands down the shaft of the detector and feel through the dirt till they find that coin. Some kids are deaf and they feel the vibration of the detector speaker or we use a light in the headphone jack for them to see when they hit a target. Many of the other children are in wheelchairs or on crutches and we not only teach them how to use a metal detector, but how to retrieve the target from where they set. Whatever their problem, we show them and their counslors that there is an recreational sport they can do with their handicap. The kids tell us that it is the most fun they have at the camp. By showing the counslors as we teach the kids, then the counslors can continue the activity after we leave for the rest of the sessions that summer. However again that is only possible because of fine folks like yourself that is willing to give up their foreign coins to help those kids. You have our deepest thanks and appreciation and I'm sure the camp would love a foreign coin book to help the kids identify what coins they have found. I can't tell you how many times we are asked "what country did my coin come from?" Thanks again for your very kind heart. Keith Wills Please send donations to me at: 201S. Montgomery St., Gilmer, TX. 75644

[PAPPY]

AL, SENDING MY FOREIGN COINS TOMORROW MORNING TO KEITH....PAPPY

[Toadie]

I do not have many foriegn coins as I normally stay in Texas but I can swing on over to Gilmer and lend a helping hand if need be. Gilmer is about and hour and a few minutes away and I know the area well. Matter of fact, I have several kin there as my grandfather is buried there. Let me know if I can be of any assistance.


James Hobbs