November 11 2013
11 a.m. Care Package Packing - Trail Center
2:30 p.m. Flag Retirement Ceremony - Picnic Shelter
True to tradition, and to mark Veterans Day, First Landing State Park is hosting a care package supply drive to send deployed units from the armed services care packages. If you would like to show your appreciation to those in harm’s way, stop by our Trail Center and drop off items from the list. We welcome anyone who wants to help make the packages to join us on Veterans Day, November 11, 2013 at 11 a.m. in the Trail Center conference room where we will be decorating and packing the boxes.
Items Needed
Powdered drink mix: Hot beverage mixes such as cocoa, instant coffee, tea bags, and creamer or cool sweetened drink mixes such as lemonade and iced tea.
Meal enhancers: Anything that can be mixed with meals ready to eat (MREs), such as ramen noodles, seasoned salt, hot sauce, mustard, relish, and ketchup is appreciated.
Quick protein: This includes energy bars, tuna fish, sardines, non-perishable beef jerky, or beef summer sausage. Make sure the meat is labeled USDA.
Snacks: Look for small, hard containers of chips, pretzels, and nuts. Avoid bags, which may burst under high pressure. Snack cakes, cheese crackers, and cookies are in high demand.
Candy and gum: Gum and other types of candy may soften and become gooey so send these in plastic zipper-lock bags. Avoid sending chocolate as it can melt in the heat.
Miscellaneous items: Troops appreciate, note paper, envelopes, pens, pencils, stamps, paperback books, current magazines, comic books, cross-word puzzles, word searches, jigsaw puzzles, foam footballs and basketballs, frisbees, hacky sacks, playing cards, and other games.
Powdered drink mix: Hot beverage mixes such as cocoa, instant coffee, tea bags, and creamer or cool sweetened drink mixes such as lemonade and iced tea.
Meal enhancers: Anything that can be mixed with meals ready to eat (MREs), such as ramen noodles, seasoned salt, hot sauce, mustard, relish, and ketchup is appreciated.
Quick protein: This includes energy bars, tuna fish, sardines, non-perishable beef jerky, or beef summer sausage. Make sure the meat is labeled USDA.
Snacks: Look for small, hard containers of chips, pretzels, and nuts. Avoid bags, which may burst under high pressure. Snack cakes, cheese crackers, and cookies are in high demand.
Candy and gum: Gum and other types of candy may soften and become gooey so send these in plastic zipper-lock bags. Avoid sending chocolate as it can melt in the heat.
Miscellaneous items: Troops appreciate, note paper, envelopes, pens, pencils, stamps, paperback books, current magazines, comic books, cross-word puzzles, word searches, jigsaw puzzles, foam footballs and basketballs, frisbees, hacky sacks, playing cards, and other games.
For more information, contact:
First Landing State Park
2500 Shore Drive
Virginia Beach, VA, 23451
Phone (757)-412-2306
Email FLInterpreter@dcr.virginia.gov
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