15th Annual Bears on Patrol Drive-Thru

15th Annual Bears on Patrol Drive-Thru

When

September 21, 2024    
11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Contact

northbaycivitan@gmail.com
North Bay Civitan Club of D’Iberville-St. Martin

Where

Target Parking Lot opposite AT&T Store
Promenade Parkway, D’Iberville, MS, 39540, Coastal Mississippi

Event Type

Drive-thru and donate a new or gently-used TEDDY BEAR to be used by first responders during incidents where youth might be involved.

Bears on Patrol was the North Bay Civitan Club’s very first community service project. It is always held on a Saturday near/on National Teddy Bear Day, Sept. 9; our date of chartering with Civitan International, which was Sept. 10, 2010; and Patriots Day, Sept. 11.

Civitans and volunteers pay tribute to the heroic lives lost on 9-11 with a special prayer and ringing of the Civitan Bell. We shall ring the bell nine times representing September, have a 23 second moment of silence representing the 23rd anniversary, and another 11 rings on the bell for the day when this tragedy happened in 2001.

Each teddy bear is checked by volunteers for cleanliness and retagged with a message of comfort.

In 2023, we presented 150 teddy bears to Harrison County Fire Rescue. In 2022, we collected about 180 teddy bears for Mississippi Highway Patrol Troop K. And in 2021, we collected nearly 250 teddy bears for the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department.

This year’s teddy bears will be presented to Mississippi Highway Patrol, again, this time for troops statewide!!

For more information, email northbaycivitan@gmail.com.

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