Northmor NHS helps support Galion Troops

By Matt Echel­berry, Inquirer Reporter

On the fourth Mon­day of every month at the Galion VFW Post 4329 (229 South Mar­ket Street), vol­un­teers are busy sort­ing through dona­tions and pack­ing them into boxes. Those boxes are care pack­ages sent to mil­i­tary troops, who are sta­tioned both on home soil and overseas.

Sup­port Galion Troops, a local group focused on send­ing care pack­ages to troops from Galion and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties, “Packs for the Troops” every month and dif­fer­ent groups and orga­ni­za­tions help with the cause. The VFW pro­vides them with a back room free of charge each time.

On Nov. 26, stu­dents from North­mor High School’s National Honor Soci­ety helped out. Ear­lier in the month the NHS did a dona­tion drive in grades K-12 to gather donations.

That evening those dona­tions, in addi­tion to other dona­tions from the com­mu­nity, were packed. There were also spe­cial Christ­mas pack­ages pre­pared as well, and the stu­dents signed cards to send with the packages.

NHS mem­bers held a K-12 grade class­room com­pe­ti­tion from Novem­ber 7th-16th to col­lect items to send to troops from the Galion area. Tal­lies of dona­tions were kept, and those stu­dents and staff mem­bers donat­ing 50 items or more were entered into a drawing.

Win­ners included Jus­tice Allen, Eliz­a­beth Ammons, Keith Ball, Saman­tha Bar­rick, Katie Bur­son, Mikki Chap­man, Jor­dan Carver, Brooke Clark, Sebas­t­ian Comp­ton, Mrs. Ellie Dono­hue, Anna Erl­sten, Jenna Estepp, Jacob High, Chev­elle Jones, Rob Lee, Doug Mead­ows, Sierra Mor­ley, Mrs. Ann Pfis­ter, John Pfis­ter, Mr. Chad Richards, Kyle Schaf­fer, Naomi Simp­son, Ms. Karole Skidmore-Roth, Kazee Smith, Marissa Tay­lor, Dal­ton Wal­ters, Miss LaN­eta Wertz and Austin Yarnell.

“This is the sec­ond year the National Honor Soci­ety has helped Sup­port Galion Troops, and the kids love to par­tic­i­pate,” com­mented NHS Advi­sor Cindy Frye.

Glo­ria Smith and Nancy Green, mem­bers of SGT who both have sons cur­rently deployed over­seas, thanked the stu­dents for their help. They nor­mally do not get that much assis­tance, and with so many hands work­ing to pre­pare the pack­ages, they were done in an hour.

Sup­port Galion Troops is always in need of dona­tions for the care pack­ages, such as non-perishable food items and toi­letries, and mon­e­tary dona­tions to ship the pack­ages (it costs $13.45 to ship just one box). The dona­tions may be dropped off at the VFW or mailed to P.O. Box 334, Galion, Ohio. Con­tact Sup­port Galion Troops at Galiontroops@gmail.com or call Glo­ria Smith at 419–468-4321.

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