Wood River Health sends holiday cheer over there
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| (photo – Sgt. Kendall Davis (center) with WRHS staffers Maria Greene (left) and Chanel Brito (right) preparing care packages for shipment to the Middle East.) |
Wood River Health Services staff has been
helping dental assistant Kendall Davis, who is also a sergeant in the
Connecticut Army National Guard’s 1109th TASMG out of Groton, to
send a little comfort to her unit, which deployed to the Middle East recently.
Davis,
who is expecting her first child and could not deploy, returned from a yearlong
deployment in Kuwait in 2013 and was keenly aware of the lift in spirits that
comes with any care package from home.
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| Wood River Health Services staff collected gifts for a family adopted for the holidays through the health center's Community Resource Specialists. |
“Knowing
anyone back home cares enough to send anything is definitely a morale booster
more than anyone would know,” Davis wrote in a letter to staff seeking
donations of hygiene products and holiday knick-knacks. “The feeling you are
still thought of while being in that type of environment and away from loved
ones, I cannot stress enough how it affects soldiers in a positive way.”
David
sent the first packages from the health center staff in mid-December to reach
the unit in time for Christmas, but is collecting until the end of December to
send additional packages.
Contributions
from the public are welcome and can be dropped off at the health center, at 823
Main Street in Hope Valley.