American Legion Auxiliary organizing care packages
Posted March 11, 2022 at 8:23 pm by San Juan Update
Minnie Knych sends along the following request for help from the Island community on behalf of the American Legion Auxiliary.
Since 2001, the American Legion Auxiliary in Friday Harbor has organized and sent monthly care packages to any service man or woman who is a friend or relative of a local resident and serving in a war zone. This was made possible by the generous donations of the citizens of San Juan Island.
Over the years, we’ve sometimes had as many as sixteen people on our list at one time. By 2014, our list had dwindled to three, and then finally to one serviceman in Afghanistan. From 2017 to 2022 we have not known of any active duty military serving overseas. Now the world has changed. At this time there are active duty military being posted to the Middle East as well as to Eastern European NATO nations on the border of Ukraine.
If you have a friend of relative who is posted to one of these areas, please let me know and we will make sure that he or she receives a monthly care package to share with their unit. Or if you would like to donate items for the boxes, please contact me at 360-378-7040 for a list of items to donate.
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