AdamZ
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Adam Zucker
Sometimes your kid does something that just let ya know your doing ok raising them. My daugther Rachel is 12 years old. Next year is her Bat Mitzvah. All the Kids her age at our synagogue do a Bar or Bat ( Bat is for a gir) Mitzvah project that is service oriented. some of the kids do the minimum to get buy. Some do things like projects like collect old videos to deliver to a senior home or Children's hospital. They put a bin outside of the Hebrew school or market and folks toss thier old videos, sneakers, coats what ever they are collecting and put them in the bin Then the kid and their folks deliver them. To be sure there are also many many very good projects.
So one day Rachel says Hey Dad, ya think I can do anything for Angel Flight for my project. Dad gets a big
on his face and says well lets call and see. So Rachel ends up volunteering her time at the Angel Flight East office at Wings Field every Monday afternoon helping with what ever they need. She puts in a couple of weeks and says ya know dad I want to do more then just work there I want to help them raise some money. Dad gets an even bigger on his face. So Rachel decides that every Friday she will bake homemade chocolate chip cookies put two in a bag and put the bags in a basket and put them out with a sign and an honor jar at the terminal at Wings. She writes to the FBO owner to ask permission and he responds with a definite yes and a $50.00 donation. ( $50.00 is like a mortgage payment for a 12 yo kid) So for the past couple of weekends she shows up early at the field puts out her basket full of homemade cookies ( which I must say are awesome even if I am her dad) with her sign saying what the cookies are for and requesting a minumum donation per bag and her old goldfish bowl as an honor jar.
I gotta say the line guys are her biggest fans and marketing staff. When the biz jet guys come in and head for the vending machines they point them in the direction of the cookie basket. They are also very protective of her honor jar. Someone in another post said pilots are cheap but I gotta tell ya they are generous. In the past two weeks she has made over $110 for Angel Flight East just selling her home baked chocolate chip cookies in the terminal. Kinda makes me feel real good about folks, good about the pilot community and of course great about Rachel. Damn its good to be a pilot and a DAD
So one day Rachel says Hey Dad, ya think I can do anything for Angel Flight for my project. Dad gets a big
on his face and says well lets call and see. So Rachel ends up volunteering her time at the Angel Flight East office at Wings Field every Monday afternoon helping with what ever they need. She puts in a couple of weeks and says ya know dad I want to do more then just work there I want to help them raise some money. Dad gets an even bigger on his face. So Rachel decides that every Friday she will bake homemade chocolate chip cookies put two in a bag and put the bags in a basket and put them out with a sign and an honor jar at the terminal at Wings. She writes to the FBO owner to ask permission and he responds with a definite yes and a $50.00 donation. ( $50.00 is like a mortgage payment for a 12 yo kid) So for the past couple of weekends she shows up early at the field puts out her basket full of homemade cookies ( which I must say are awesome even if I am her dad) with her sign saying what the cookies are for and requesting a minumum donation per bag and her old goldfish bowl as an honor jar.I gotta say the line guys are her biggest fans and marketing staff. When the biz jet guys come in and head for the vending machines they point them in the direction of the cookie basket. They are also very protective of her honor jar. Someone in another post said pilots are cheap but I gotta tell ya they are generous. In the past two weeks she has made over $110 for Angel Flight East just selling her home baked chocolate chip cookies in the terminal. Kinda makes me feel real good about folks, good about the pilot community and of course great about Rachel. Damn its good to be a pilot and a DAD
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) with a donation jar!
