Over 100,000 holiday lights, the Yellow Ribbon Club, and CBS in Marlton?

When:   Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009

Time:     4pm-6pm

Where:   58 King Ave.   Marlton, NJ 08053

Ok, what’s going on is that Beth and Tom Ronketty have decorated their home with over 100,000 lights for the holidays. They go “overboard” every year with their decorations in order to bring attention to a “cause”. Every year they are selected to be featured on CBS news for their “decorations” and for the “cause they support. They did this last year and chose the Yellow Ribbon Club as recipients for this. We had a nice show of support last year and the Ronketty’s raised a few hundred dollars for the Yellow Ribbon Club.

This year they want to do it again and they decorated their home with all of those lights. We also have had some changes in the Yellow Ribbon Club recently. We no longer have the shipping assistance that we have had for 4 years and are doing all of the packing and shipping from the Drummonds home. (you can see several recent thank you notes from the troops at www.yellowribbonclub.org). The cost for shipping is now 100% on the club and they could use some help. CBS is coming out this Tuesday and will broadcast live from their home at the above address between 4pm and 6pm.  The first broadcast will be exactly at 4pm. With this, CBS will also acknowledge the cause of the effort which is raising donations for the Yellow Ribbon Club to ship goodies to the troops. IF you are able to stop by and hang out a little, please do at the above address as we need patriotic eye candy to get the publics attention. Please bring flags, ribbons and anything patriotic…like motorcycles.

CBS is also doing their own thing with Toys for Tots and have asked us to invite those who come, to bring an unwrapped toy for their drive. This is a win-win night. Help kids and help support the troops. 

The Ronketty’s will have light refreshments. There will be a magician so bring the kids.

Leslie Drummond, President & Founder
The Yellow Ribbon Club
http://www.yellowribbonclub.org