Word is getting out about our efforts as we begin putting together the items for our latest shipment of cookies to the U.S. troops stationed away from their families in Iraq and Afghanistan during the holidays. Look for us on “NewsChannel 8 at Sunrise” on Tuesday, November 20th between 5-7am, when Drew Carney visits to help package some cookies!

Interested in contributing to The Cookie Crew’s effortsfor the 2012 shipment? Here of some of the items we can always use more of to send off to our soldiers:

White tube socks
Individually wrapped candies
Playing cards
All occasion greeting cards
Used or new paperback books
DVDs
Holiday CDs
Individual hot chocolate mix packets
Individual hot cider mix packets
Jerky
Chewing gum
Phone cards
Crackers in individual snack packages
Candy canes
Candy bars
Cash donations for shipping (shipping for 2011 was $2,300+)*
Cash donations for purchasing any of the above items*

* – 100% of cash donations will go toward items for our soldiers or the costs of shipping the items to them.