Sleep Country USA Continues Support of Foster Children

May 15, 2007  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Bedding on May 2007 Bedding retailer Sleep Country USA is once again pitching in to help foster children in the Pacific Northwest.

The chain, with more than 60 stores, gathered more than 3,100 articles of new clothing to help the region’s more than 23,000 foster children.

Contributions of shoes, pants, tops, new socks, and packaged undergarments in all sizes were accepted during the company’s more than month-long drive to help provide foster kids with some of the key material needs they must often go without. Sleep Country USA is also hosting a new Pajama Bowl for its Portland community on May 20th—driven largely by the success of the same event it holds in Seattle. The company will then kick off summer with its second annual Pajama Bowl in Seattle, hoping to increase donations from the $40,000 received last year in pledges.

“Our Sleep Country Foster Kids program continues to grow in size, scope and most importantly effect,” said Terry Horsley, executive vice president of marketing and merchandising. “We are incredibly excited about the response from our communities in both Washington and Oregon, and proud to be able to provide area foster children with these seemingly simple, yet very important, items.”

Individuals and businesses can help and have fun by signing up today for the company’s upcoming Pajama Bowl event. Sleep Country USA will also begin collecting Outdoor Games and Sporting Equipment on June 18 for its annual summer drive. People can participate by donating items like hula hoops; basketballs; outdoor chalk buckets; baseball gloves, balls and bats; soccer balls; rollerblades and skates; tennis and badminton racquets and pool toys.