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Welcome to
Cypress Cares!
Cypress Cares is an IRS
recognized, 501c3, non-profit organization.
TROOP
SPOTLIGHT
Our Spotlight shines this month on
Lance Corporal Daniel Martinez. Daniel was nominated
for the Spotlight this month by Billye Roberts of
Houston, TX.
Lcpl. Daniel G Martinez,III is currently serving in
Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Daniel is with the 3rd
Battalion 1st Marines India Company. His
job in the Marine Corps is 0311 Rifleman. He also is
an interpreter and speaks Pashto. He has earned the
Combat Action Ribbon, Global War on Terrorism
Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Sea
Service Deployment Ribbon, and National Defense
Service Medal.
He is a 2008 graduate of Cy-Fair High School, which
is where he met his wife, Marissa Roberts. They got
married in July 2009. He was stationed on Camp
Pendleton in California, where Marissa accompanied
him.
Daniel is scheduled to return from deployment in
November to his Family, his loving companion dog,
Shiner and some good home cooking.
This picture is of LCPL Martinez walking with
some Afghan children.
Daniel, the
entire Cypress CaresTeam thanks you for your
service. We look forward to hearing that you have safely
returned home.
Something different for our website.
Click here
for a video clip from a USO
tour in Iraq featuring Gene Simmons and Kiss.
Cypress
Cares offers its most sincere condolences to the
family of US Army SSG Jesse Infante of Cypress, TX.
SSG Infante was killed in action in Afghanistan on
August 30, 2010 while serving with the Army's 4th
Brigade Support Ballation, 1st Brigade Combat Team
based out of Ft. Carson, CO.
SSG
Infante was a graduate of Houston's Sam Houston HS
in 1999 and enlisted in the Army in January 2000.
He had previously completed one combat tour in Iraq
in December 2006.
SSG Infante, the entire
Cypress Cares Team wishes that you will rest in
peace. You have served your country well, with
honor, and gave it everything you had. Rest in peace
now, hero.
There are a lot of
ways in which you can help out our organization.
Please scroll on down this page to find one that
works for you!
Make
a donation directly to Cypress Cares!!
To
make a donation to Cypress Cares
on your credit card
via Pay Pal, visit the"make
a donation" tab on the left of this page
then click the Pay Pal button on the bottom of the
make a donation page.
It is not necessary to have a
Pay Pal account to do this. On the Pay Pal
site, on the lower left of the page, you will see
the option to use a credit card without a Pay Pal
account, and just click the "continue" button. On
the next page, you can enter your credit card info
and process your donation.
Cypress Cares will be
notified by Pay Pal of your contribution. Please
be sure to keep the receipt that is e-mailed to you, for your own
records.
Support
Cypress Cares while you shop
Before
you do your online shopping, check out our new link
on
iShoptoDonate. Participating merchants,
including WalMart, Current, Barnes &
Noble and my personal favorite,
Amazon.com just to name a few, will
donate a percentage of your purchase amount to
Cypress Cares. What a great way to help support our
effort while still doing the shopping you had
already planned.
Click here for the link, bookmark on your
computer and remember to Shop to Donate to Cypress
Cares!
There is even a link on the page to
coupons.com. Everyday that you go through our page
to coupons.com, Cypress Cares will earn $.35. If
even 10 of our supporters do this on a daily basis,
that will mean over $300 donated to Cypress Cares
each month, just for cutting coupons! How much
easier can it be?
Shout it out...we got the
Prilosec Sponsorship!!
On Friday, March 19, Raquel
was announced as one of 50 "officials" in the
 Prilosec Official Sponsor competition.
As the Official Prilosec OTC
Supporter of US Troops, Raquel received a $4,000 check from Prilosec OTC which
was turned over to Cypress Cares. With this, our
accumulated debt from 2009 is now paid off. Raquel
has also been given a blog spot on the Official
Sponsor website where, in addition to the Cypress
Cares official website and the Communique
newsletter, she'll keep everyone up-to-date on what
is going on with Cypress Cares, post pictures and
video
so that not just the Cypress Cares supporters can
know what we're doing, but Prilosec and all of it's fans can see as
well. We have the feeling that only bigger and
better things are yet to come for our small group.
Thank you everyone for your continued support!
 Because
we were told that to maintain our status on the
internet search engines, we should be on all of the
social media pages, Cypress
Cares is now on Facebook,
Twitter and
MySpace! To become a Facebook
fan of Cypress Cares:
click
here.
Find us
on Twitter,
click here
and become a follower.
To become a MySpace
friend,
click here
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Join
our mailing list: If you would like to receive
our newsletters and postings about upcoming events,
please let us know with an email to the address below.
Newsletters are published approximately every two
months. Anyone who has participated in a Cypress
Cares event or benefited from our packages is welcome
to contribute to the newsletter as well.
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Financial
contributions are needed! Although we hate
to come right out and ask for money, it is very
needed at this time. Please consider contributing,
even in small amounts, to our effort by making a monetary
donation. Every package we ship costs money,
$13-$50/box, (more expensive boxes are at Christmas
time) so any contribution is welcome. For
ideas about how to get your community involved, please
feel free to contact us.
Thank
you for your interest and your support!
The
Cypress Cares Team
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