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Holiday care packages from Bay Area headed to troops overseas

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Bay Area volunteers packed boxes with clothing, toiletries, and cards to be sent to troops overseas who can't be with their families this holiday season.
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NAPA, Calif. (KGO) -- More than 1,000 holiday care packages from the Bay Area are headed to the men and women serving overseas.

In Napa on Saturday, volunteers with Operation: With LOVE From HOME packed boxes to ship to troops who can't be with their families. The boxes were packed with clothing, toiletries, and cards.

A storage unit filled with boxes collapsed in the Napa earthquake. The boxes remain trapped inside and no one can get to them. That's why Saturday's donations are so important.

"The silver lining in that is you see what's here today, you see people rallying to still support the cause, realizing we had a natural disaster that would have shut this down potentially," said volunteer Dave Hartung.

Troops overseas will receive more than 1,000 holiday care packages put together in the Bay Area.

Volunteer Pamela Contos added, "It's not just the socks, and the razors, they get a card, something that was actually touched by a human being, and it's love sent and there's no words for it."

Organizers exceeded their goal to fill and ship 1,000 packages.