Soldier's Wish List Group Collecting Hygiene Items for Troops
A cookie-baking group started by an O'Fallon woman is answering a call for personal-care items for soldiers in Iraq.
Cookies from the Heart, a group founded and organized by O'Fallon resident Mary Powers is working to answer another request from soldiers stationed in Iraq. The group, which is associated with A Soldier's Wish List (ASWL), has been baking, packaging and shipping cookies to servicemen and women oversees. READ MORE: O'Fallon Woman's New Group Bakes Cookies for Soldiers Powers saw a request from a soldier who had recently returned from Iraq asking for hygiene items for soldiers still stationed there. "We still have 500 troops located in Iraq," Powers said in an email. "Three of their (post exchange) locations in Iraq are being shut down by our government due to budget cuts, and now they have no where to go for hygiene items." Powers is …
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Ali Ramshur
3:48 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
I joined the group after seeing the first story on Patch. It's such a great way to help out! more ›