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Donations for the Boonville Cares for Our Troops campaign are now being accepted by local businesses through the 4th of July when they will be packaged and sent off to the troops. Items needed range from sport drinks to over-the-counter medications. A detailed list of needed items will be released when the collections begin.
The Retail Committee of the Boonville Area Chamber of Commerce is coordinating the campaign to collect items to make and send care packages to troops serving overseas.
Cash donations are also being accepted to help with the cost of shipping the donated items.
For more information call Sheila Payne at 882-1526, Jennifer Jackson at 882-2882 or the Chamber at 882-2721. You can also email Sheila or Jennifer at sheila.payne@bankofamerica.com or jennifer@diversifiedstaff.com.
Care package suggestions
Sports drinks, Kool-Aid® (presweetened), individual boxes of cereal, granola bars or nutrition bars, oatmeal, popcorn balls, instant coffee, fast food condiments (ketchup, hot sauce, mustard, etc.), dried fruit, spices, tea bags, single serving bagged chips, crackers and Easy Cheese®, beef jerkey, nuts, instant soup, marshmellows.
Practical items
Baby wipes, after shave lotion, mouth wash, deodorant, cotton swabs or cotton balls, towels, sun block, tylenol, ibuprofen, hand-held or clip-on fan, travel alarm, Desitin®, combs/brushes, contact lens cleaner, show insole cushions, femine products, razors, shaving cream, liquid hand sanitizer, shampoo and conditioner, nail clippers, t-shirts and underwear, Chapstick®, lotion, sewing kit, dental floss, baby powder, foot powder, breath mints, eye drops, plastic storage bags, flea collars.
Just for fun items
Stress ball, AA or AAA batteries, yoyo, jump rope, postcards, portable CD player, ear phones, games, cards, paper, envelopes, pens, balloons, books, magazines, word puzzles, disposable cameras, journals, frisbees and hackey sacks, small flashlights, joke or comic books, mini fans, DVDs.
List of participating businesses for drop off of supplies:
A Baker Floral, Bank of America, Boonville city hall, Boonville Daily News, Boonville’s Seventh Day Adventist Church, C&R Market, Caterpillar, Dave’s Country Mart, Curves, Diversified Staffing, Family Shoe Store, First Christian Church, Glen Martin Engineering, Gordon Jewelers, Hearing Aid Specialist, Interstate Brands (Butternut), Lighthouse Baptist Church, Main Street Gift Gallery, Indeeco, Monnig Industries, Nordyne, Open Bible Praise Center, One Penny Fellowship, Premier Furniture, Riverside Christian Church, Santa Fe Trail Baptist Church, Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church, Savvy Seconds, Snoddy’s, Stevens Appliances, United Country Realty and Unlimited Opportunities.
Donations for the Boonville Cares for Our Troops campaign are now being accepted by local businesses through the 4th of July when they will be packaged and sent off to the troops. Items needed range from sport drinks to over-the-counter medications. A detailed list of needed items will be released when the collections begin.
The Retail Committee of the Boonville Area Chamber of Commerce is coordinating the campaign to collect items to make and send care packages to troops serving overseas.
Cash donations are also being accepted to help with the cost of shipping the donated items.
For more information call Sheila Payne at 882-1526, Jennifer Jackson at 882-2882 or the Chamber at 882-2721. You can also email Sheila or Jennifer at sheila.payne@bankofamerica.com or jennifer@diversifiedstaff.com.
Care package suggestions
Sports drinks, Kool-Aid® (presweetened), individual boxes of cereal, granola bars or nutrition bars, oatmeal, popcorn balls, instant coffee, fast food condiments (ketchup, hot sauce, mustard, etc.), dried fruit, spices, tea bags, single serving bagged chips, crackers and Easy Cheese®, beef jerkey, nuts, instant soup, marshmellows.
Practical items
Baby wipes, after shave lotion, mouth wash, deodorant, cotton swabs or cotton balls, towels, sun block, tylenol, ibuprofen, hand-held or clip-on fan, travel alarm, Desitin®, combs/brushes, contact lens cleaner, show insole cushions, femine products, razors, shaving cream, liquid hand sanitizer, shampoo and conditioner, nail clippers, t-shirts and underwear, Chapstick®, lotion, sewing kit, dental floss, baby powder, foot powder, breath mints, eye drops, plastic storage bags, flea collars.
Just for fun items
Stress ball, AA or AAA batteries, yoyo, jump rope, postcards, portable CD player, ear phones, games, cards, paper, envelopes, pens, balloons, books, magazines, word puzzles, disposable cameras, journals, frisbees and hackey sacks, small flashlights, joke or comic books, mini fans, DVDs.
List of participating businesses for drop off of supplies:
A Baker Floral, Bank of America, Boonville city hall, Boonville Daily News, Boonville’s Seventh Day Adventist Church, C&R Market, Caterpillar, Dave’s Country Mart, Curves, Diversified Staffing, Family Shoe Store, First Christian Church, Glen Martin Engineering, Gordon Jewelers, Hearing Aid Specialist, Interstate Brands (Butternut), Lighthouse Baptist Church, Main Street Gift Gallery, Indeeco, Monnig Industries, Nordyne, Open Bible Praise Center, One Penny Fellowship, Premier Furniture, Riverside Christian Church, Santa Fe Trail Baptist Church, Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church, Savvy Seconds, Snoddy’s, Stevens Appliances, United Country Realty and Unlimited Opportunities.
