Christina Lindahl’s Spanish classes made the holidays special for U.S. soldiers overseas.
Geneva Middle School South students in Christina Lindahl’s Spanish classes recently completed a community service project that will send Happy Holiday notes and care packages to military men and women stationed overseas. Students recently studied Three Kings Day, a Latin American and Spanish holiday during which children leave their shoes out on the eve of Jan. 5 in hopes that the Reyes Magos (Three Kings) will leave them gifts in their shoes while they sleep. Geneva students filled cut out paper “shoes” with donated items, such as personal care items, snacks, playing cards and batteries, along with notes thanking soldiers for their service and wishing them Happy Holidays and a safe return home. The packages were given to Fox Valley Troop …
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Fox Valley Troop Support and VFW Post 5036 want troops overseas to know that Fox Valley residents are pulling for them.
Pride of the Fox RiverFest is attracting Fox Valley residents this weekend to downtown St. Charles with its musical enterainment, carnival rides, food and crafts. The highly anticipated yearly festival is celebrating its 29th year of kicking off summer in St. Charles. But as much as the focus is on those attending the festivities, those who can not attend because they are in the military around the world are not forgotten. Fox Valley Troop Support Inc. (FVTS) wants the public to remember that some of the area's citizens are stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Members of FVTS, a non-profit group based in Kane County, know how much it means to military troops to receive letters of support from home. "A letter only takes a few minutes to write…
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12:37 pm on Thursday, June 16, 2011
The Pride of the Fox RiverFest committee would like to thank the attendees who stopped by to write a letter and tell their story. A big thanks goes out to the FVTS AND the RiverFest Volunteers for all of their hard work and support to make this special activity occur. more ›