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The Metamora Township High School Student Council is helping Operation Santa collect items to fill holiday stockings for deployed troops at the football game on Oct. 7.
Operation Santa started in 2005, when Patti Smith of Peoria, the mother of two Marines deployed overseas wanted to provide them and their fellow servicemen something special over the holiday.
Since then the effort has grown every year. Operation Santa has sent 153,737 Christmas stockings to all military branches of our men and women in uniform.
The effort involves volunteers who sew stockings, collect stocking filler items, donate funds for shipping, and come and help stuff stockings in November.
Operation Santa 2011 is in full operation. So far, more than 17,000 stockings have been sewn.
The Par-A-Dice Casino has donated 25,000 decks of cards.
The Girl Scouts of America donated 8,500 boxes of cookies.
Operation Santa has collected more than 6,500 personal Christmas cards.
Bloomington dentists have contributed more than 500 toothbrushes, toothpaste, and floss.
The Brad Barker Honda sponsored “Fill The Truck For The Troops” brought in 22,688 items which will fill about 2,500 stockings.
Items collected included 3,550 granola bars, 4,700 individual packets of cocoa and individual fruit flavored packets for water, 290 pounds of hard candy, 1,513 packs of gum, 30 pounds of beef jerkey, 1,134 AA batteries, and numerous other items.
Champaign has made 1,300 stockings and more than 900 cards and collected $400 dollars in cash, plus lots of things donated to go into
stockings.
Metamora is being asked to provide the following items in travel size only:
• White crew socks
• Deodorant
• Toothbrushes and toothpaste
• Pocket pack Kleenex
• Foot powder
• Dental floss
• Hand sanitizer
• Hand wipes
• AA batteries (any size package)
• Individual packs of hot chocolate
• Powdered Gatorade
• Single drink mixes for
bottled water
• Cup A Soup
• Beef jerky: individual (no cheese) or bags
• Gum and mints
• Protein bars
• Granola bars
• Lip balm
• Hard candy
• Tootsie Rolls
The Metamora Township High School Student Council is helping Operation Santa collect items to fill holiday stockings for deployed troops at the football game on Oct. 7.
Operation Santa started in 2005, when Patti Smith of Peoria, the mother of two Marines deployed overseas wanted to provide them and their fellow servicemen something special over the holiday.
Since then the effort has grown every year. Operation Santa has sent 153,737 Christmas stockings to all military branches of our men and women in uniform.
The effort involves volunteers who sew stockings, collect stocking filler items, donate funds for shipping, and come and help stuff stockings in November.
Operation Santa 2011 is in full operation. So far, more than 17,000 stockings have been sewn.
The Par-A-Dice Casino has donated 25,000 decks of cards.
The Girl Scouts of America donated 8,500 boxes of cookies.
Operation Santa has collected more than 6,500 personal Christmas cards.
Bloomington dentists have contributed more than 500 toothbrushes, toothpaste, and floss.
The Brad Barker Honda sponsored “Fill The Truck For The Troops” brought in 22,688 items which will fill about 2,500 stockings.
Items collected included 3,550 granola bars, 4,700 individual packets of cocoa and individual fruit flavored packets for water, 290 pounds of hard candy, 1,513 packs of gum, 30 pounds of beef jerkey, 1,134 AA batteries, and numerous other items.
Champaign has made 1,300 stockings and more than 900 cards and collected $400 dollars in cash, plus lots of things donated to go into
stockings.
Metamora is being asked to provide the following items in travel size only:
• White crew socks
• Deodorant
• Toothbrushes and toothpaste
• Pocket pack Kleenex
• Foot powder
• Dental floss
• Hand sanitizer
• Hand wipes
• AA batteries (any size package)
• Individual packs of hot chocolate
• Powdered Gatorade
• Single drink mixes for
bottled water
• Cup A Soup
• Beef jerky: individual (no cheese) or bags
• Gum and mints
• Protein bars
• Granola bars
• Lip balm
• Hard candy
• Tootsie Rolls
