Blog by: Mandy (Graphic Artist/Front Sales/Everything Else)
It's official: the Support Our Troops box is here, and ready to be filled with goodies for this month's featured local servicemember, Aaron Blakely. In case you haven't been keeping up with the feature in our paper, let me explain: we have long included a Support Our Troops feature in our paper regularly. Recently, it became so popular that we started including it in every week's paper, featuring information about our troops, as well as names of charities and their websites where those who read our paper could donate money, time or goods to our men and women in uniform. This was going great, but we decided it was time to make it more personal.
Here's how our revamped Support Our Troops feature works: local businesses support the page, featuring a servicemember or family of one from our area, every week. We put out a list of suggestions for donation, gather them here at the Shopper, and then mail them to their recipient/s.
Interested in being a part of this project? Just bring items to go into a care package (They don't have to be expensive - or even cost anything at all! Think snacks, comfort items, and letters or cards of support.) to the Hunt County Shopper, located at 3617 Wesley Street in Greenville, Texas. Are you a local business? You can help to sponsor the ad for $23.80, and your name, phone number, location and logo will also be listed on the page. Know a soldier, or a soldier's family, in need of support? Send their name and a little information about them to hcshop@swbell.net!
Other feature pages we're currently working on: Attend the Church of Your Choice for Easter, Drug Free Greenville Walk-A-Thon, National Day of Prayer, and Live, Work and Play Lake Tawakoni and Quinlan.
