Holiday Cards Needed for Troops Overseas
Operation Holiday Card is collecting cards to send to troops stationed overseas and away from their families during the holiday season.
To participate, write a note to an unknown service member inside one card or several, sharing encouragement and holiday wishes. Cards can offer a general Season's Greetings or be specifically for Christmas, Hanukkah or a December holiday. Note on the back of each envelope if the card is for a specific holiday.
The cards can be purchased or handmade, but don't use glitter. No postage is necessary, and participants do not have to include a return address but can if they wish.
Cards can be dropped off at Broadmoor United Methodist Church, 3715 Youree Drive in Shreveport, or mailed to: Operation Holiday Card, 6658 Youree Drive, Suite 180, P.O. Box 335, Shreveport, LA 71105.
All cards must be received by Dec. 2nd to allow for time to be shipped overseas. Call the church at (318) 861-0586, send e-mail to operationholidaycard@gmail.com or use the link on this page to learn more.
Project Offers Legal Help to Homeless Veterans
Project SALUTE, a traveling project of the University of Detroit's Mercy School of Law, will stage in Shreveport two days this week, offering legal assistance to homeless and needy veterans.
The project's mobile law office will be in the parking lot of First United Methodist Church, Head of Texas Street in downtown Shreveport, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday & Friday (Nov. 19-20).
The custom-designed recreational vehicle, donated by an anonymous benefactor, is staffed by professionals who help low-income veterans with their federal veterans' disability and pension benefits claims issues.
Volunteers Sought for Various Endeavors
Northwest Louisiana Volunteer Center has the following opportunities to volunteer. Call the center at (318) 677-2504, ext. 23 to learn more.
— The first Ballin' On the Red Shootout high school basketball tournament needs volunteers Thursday through Saturday for its hospitality room to welcome people, keep the room in order and assist as needed.
— The Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana needs volunteers to organize food drives.
— Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission is asking for tube or long socks by Nov. 25th for its Stuffing Socks Program to provide clean socks to the homeless.
— Volunteers are needed to adopt Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission residents, and churches and companies are needed to adopt groups of 25 to 30 homeless men, women and children for Christmas.
— Donations of turkeys, hams, pies, cakes and rolls are needed Thanksgiving week for the homeless in northwest Louisiana.
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