USO News

SESAME STREET / USO EXPERIENCE
The Sesame Street Experience for the military families will be coming to a base near you. You must pick up tickets from the base you're attending the show at. The schedules and ticket information are as follows:

Base: Kings Bay
Date: Saturday June 5
Show times: 2pm and 5pm
Location: Gym
Tickets will be available next week at the CDC, Youth Center and ITT.

Base: NAS Jacksonville
Date: Sunday June 6
Show time: 2pm
Location: Hangar 117
Tickets are available now at the ITT, CDC, Youth Center, and the NAS Jax USO Center

Base: Naval Station Mayport
Date: Thursday June 10
Show times: 5pm and 7:30pm
Location: Gym
The two shows will be on a first come first serve basis no tickets will be passed out. This will be bleacher and floor seating only. Please watch the Mayport Mirror for more information.

 
DISCOUNT TICKETS FOR COUNTRY THROWDOWN 2010
If you are looking for a great deal on tickets to The Country Throwdown at Metropolitan Park this Sunday May 16th we have it for you. Military discount tickets are available at ticketmaster. Go to ticketmaster.com use password JAXUSO to receive $10.00 tickets. Please note that with the fees the ticket price will be $14.25. Military ID is required and children 10 and under are free. Gates open at Noon. Please visit http://www.countrythrowdown.com/ for more information. We do not have tickets at the Centers for sale, you must purchase online only.

 
MOE’S SOUTHWEST GRILL/USO TEAM UP DURING MONTH OF MAY
Moe’s Southwest Grill is teaming up with The Greater Jacksonville Area USO during the month of May (Military Appreciation Month) to raise funds to send “Goodie Boxes” to our local Florida troops currently overseas defending our freedoms. This promotion will conclude on May 31st Memorial Day. Each “Goodie Box” that is sent from the Jacksonville Market will be mailed directly to troops from the Jacksonville area. Moe’s Southwest Grill's goal is to donate as many boxes as number of troops currently deployed from the Jacksonville market. Each package costs $12.50 in postage. Moe’s will match your donation dollar for dollar to support your USO!

What Is A “USO Goodie Box”?

Greater Jacksonville Area USO Goodie Boxes provide a “touch of home” and everyday items Americans take for granted. We fill boxes full of requested items from military units deployed overseas, from every service, including our Florida National Guard. Items include: Phone cards, baby wipes, eye drops, chap stick/lip balm, foot powder, hand sanitizer, drink mixes, wet wipes, tooth brushes/paste, various snacks and books, to name a few. From emails we receive, these boxes are anxiously anticipated and ravaged upon delivery by the troops. As one Marine Lieutenant Colonel aptly stated: USO JAX is a friend from the homeland and your boxes raise my Marines morale and put smiles on their faces.” And these are Marines involved in some of the heaviest and brutal fighting in Afghanistan.

How You Can Help…

Moe’s Southwest Grill and the Greater Jacksonville Area USO offer three easy ways to collect donations for these “Goodie Boxes”.

There will be a website created that will allow people to purchase a care package in their name and pay for the postage online

In store the care packages will be on display for the entire promotion term for people to donate for the entire postage of the box to be shipped to the troops. By doing this people would have the options to write a personal message to the troops as well as leave contact info for the troops to contact them and thank them for their donations.

Seeing that some people might not be able to afford to donate the full $12.50 for the shipping of a entire box, Moe’s Southwest Grill will be offering at the check out line the options to donate to the Greater Jacksonville Area USO on top of their purchase during the month (Minimum of $1). If the customer chooses to do so they then have the opportunity to fill out their name on a paper printed flag with the “Help on the Homefront” USO logo on it and then Moe’s will post the flag to the wall for display during the entire month.


BUILD-A-BEAR WORKING WITH THE USO
Build-A-Bear Workshop Salutes U.S. Troops in Celebration of Military Appreciation Month. Build-A-Bear Workshop®, the interactive entertainment retailer of customized stuffed animals, announced today that it is celebrating Military Appreciation Month by supporting Local USO and offering troops and their families a 20% military discount on their purchase (coupons are available at all Three Greater Jacksonville USO Centers). The Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation will invite Guests to donate $1 at checkout registers May 3 through June 7 in any Build-A-Bear Workshop retail location in the United States to support Local USO Centers. For more information please visit http://www.buildabear.com/. There is a store in Jacksonville at The Avenues Mall (10300 Southside Blvd).