On Saturday December 5th, 2009 was our first toy drive for the Children's Cancer Network at Spazdog Comics. The event featured the return of Sony's 28ft Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. The Ecto-AZ was on hand as well as our booth to collect toys and any additional cash donations. Any toys recieved was placed in the back of the Ecto. On hand was local comic artist Daniel Bradford selling his limited Stay-Puft vs. Robot 13 prints for donations to the drive. The store put all of their toys on sale and for each figure purchased there, the store would donate another one to the drive. We had 8 busters on hand, 4 in khaki suites and 4 in Ghostbusters 2 grey suits. We rotated members between roadside duty and staying with Puft and the Ecto for pictures. This event was also the first time Phil Truong  was with us as an official member and did a great job.

By the end of the day we collected 300 toys and $150 in cash donations from the Puft prints and our booth. With the recent screening raffle donations we had a combined total of $450 total to give the Children's Cancer Network. Each holiday season the network adopts families of children undergoing cancer treatment. The toys will be distributed between the families at their homes and at the local hospitals. The cash will help purchase addtional items the families need. The organization was overwhelmed by what we were able to collect for them and we are continuing to plan future events with them. We're proud we've been able to brighten the holidays for these families. We'd like to thank Spazdog Comics and Daniel Bradford for helping with this great event.