TWA Toys for Tots Year End Report

2019

Year Thirty-Four

This is the 34th year that the Triangle Woodworkers Association has participated in a program in support of the Marine Corps' Toys for Tots program.  We have now delivered 110,024 toys for the Toys for Tots program.  This year we produced a record high of 4,265 toys in one year.

Each year there have been approximately 50 TWA members and 10 nonmembers producing the toys.  Groups from 4 to 14 get together in a workshop to do the work necessary to make the toys.   All in all there have been around 40 workshops meetings per year.

Pictures below show some of the finished products, as well as TWA members that have been involved.  Of particular note is the first picture. It is a picture of Roy Underhill who was the host of the PBS show The Woodwright’s Shop for the last 30+ years.  Roy has been a loyal supporter of our program.  Here he is shown giving one of our toys the once-over before it is given to the Marines.

Submitted by:

Fred Ford

Chairman of the TWA Toys for Tots Program