Way s You Can Help Me Find My Blue Jeans Ice Cream Truck

      The other night I had an interesting and adorable conversation with a young boy. He liked my page on Facebook. 

     He said he wished there was something he could do.

• I don’t know how old he was. I think he might have been one of my summer loyal customers. It doesn’t really matter.
•  I just added a new way to help: Buy a Blue Jeans Ice Cream Truck Prepaid Ice Cream Punch Card.

I have brainstormed several ways people can help me, so here they are:

Help that Doesn’t Cost Money  

(This includes things you can do, even if you don’t live in the area)

• You can download this flyer, Click this Link print it out and share it on your employee lounge bulletin board at work. Put it up in your apartment or homeowner’s association recreation area, send me ideas of other places I can spread the word.
• If you want to create a tshirt or sweatshirt to wear and help me spread the word, (if you live in Western Washington state) go get this picture, you can also edit it and embelish it to make it more personal to you. (I would love to see if you create something different. Please comment and share what you do)

• Even if you don’t live in the area, if you know someone that works at Kiro 7, Komo 4, and King 5, please alert them to my cause and how important it is for them to do a story for us.

• Call a Seattle or Tacoma Talk Radio and spread the word.

• If you are a student at college or high school encourage your journalism story to contact me and do a story.

• Subscribe to this blog so you can see when I come up with more ways to get the word out or news happens in our hunt for my beloved truck. (My daughter has always joked since the day I bought it that I love it more than I love my kids.)

• If you are an expert in either blogger.com , twitter, or facebook.com and how to generate traffic, for that matter all social media stuff, than please subscribe and contact me. I need special help in these areas. For example: I would like to create a faded background image of my ice cream truck for this blog, and I don't know how to do that.

• Since I can’t look forward to driving my truck if it doesn’t get returned or replaced, I am going to delve all my energy into writing the book I have outlined and planned to do for sometime now, stay subscribed to this blog to read about my progress in this area. :o)

• I  will be editing this list on an ongoing basis so please check back if you genuinely want to help us.
• Subscribe and comment to the articles on this blog and share them.
• Make a comment to the news article by the News Tribune.

Help that Donations Are Needed For.

• The cost for ink and printing of flyers and other paper related costs to get people to my page and blog.
• Donations for either/or  a Recovery/Replacement/Reward  Fund.  This currently can be done in two ways. (The printing costs are already taking a toll on my monthly budget :o(
•   By contributing to this WePay donation page.
  By donating to this link:
  
  
  
  
  This way will cost 3.5% of the total donation.
• ---- Or by sending a moneygram transfer to Laurie Meade to this account number. 70008700282134.  (This way only costs $3 no matter the amount.) You can also donate to this account by buying a prepaid money reload card. This is no different than buying someone a gift card.
• You can read more about it here.
  
  
• However, if  you do go to here and decide to purchase your own prepaid visa card,
   go to this page and read it first,
  you can donate $20 to me for no cost to you and get $20 of your own at the same time.
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• You can specify what you want your donation to go for and if you want it returned in case the truck is found and doesn’t need any repair or restoration.
•   Funds for Gas to keep posting flyers to help get Kiro 7,  Komo 4,and King 5 to cover the story as well.