Yellow Ribbon Girls

05/16/2024

Just received this message from our contact inGermany, Judy works at the USO in Kaiserslautern

Thank you to Jocelyn Phillipsand her pals in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Thank you to PACC Beaver County for creating crafts-notes and for helping pack/tape the care packages
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It really did feel like Christmas too when our Warehouse Manager brought ya'll's boxes over!!! The volunteer and I were so excited to unpack all the wonderful goodies. The Girl Scout cookies are loved by everyone and the guys and gals really did enjoy them. we gave a box to the airmen who work in the building and they were sooo happy too. They went fast!! The drink mix was SO perfect! too as we don't get that from our supply and people love them. Truly, every single item was just what the guys and gals love and were all so very, very much appreciated. It was like Christmas here as we unboxed the boxes.

What a WONDERFUL organization you work for Bonnie. Please let everyone know how very, very much we appreciated all of the awesome goodies you all sent. It truly was so awesome to get ya'll's goodies. You all really brought so many smiles to the guys and gals. Thank you for offering to send other goodies...sooo appreciate that. I will get a list for you of items like you said. That would be wonderful.

Please let everyone know how we so appreciate them thinking of us and I know the troops and others here truly enjoyed the awesome items you all sent to us.

Judy Strickland
USO

10/31/2023

WELCOME TO MILITARY MISSION

Please share and donate if possible .

Military Mission is a newly formed group of concerned citizens organizing to ship holiday care packages to our troops deployed around the world. All core members of this group were part of the Yellow Ribbon Girls 20 year mission to send supplies, holiday items and treats to our troops.

Several churches in Beaver County along with lots of caring community members will be signing Christmas cards, creating crafts and collecting supplies to ship in mid November.

Collection dates are: October 9 - November 9
For a list of drop off locations,please message us.

Box packing will be November 13-16 at the Methodist Church in Beaver

If you, your family, church, school or club would like to be part of this mission, please email:

Barbara... [email protected] or

Linda... [email protected]

Postage for each care package is estimated to be $25.00. Donations to help cover postage costs are needed and appreciated.

Please mail your donation for postage or to help purchase extra supplies requested by the troops to:

Military Mission

895 Corporation St. Unit 203, Beaver, PA 15009

Do you have access to copier/computer paper boxes? We need them.

Do you want to collect from your circle of friends and meet us to deliver? All are welcome!

Do you have small items that can help fill our 400 stockings? Suggestions are pens, granola bars, beef sticks, packs of gum and small candy.

Do you have a family member/friend deployed? Contact us with their information

With YOUR help, we can continue to support our local deployed troops and those traveling through various USOs and Red Cross locations around the world.

Thank you ,
Bonnie, Patti and Vicki

10/05/2023

So you knew we couldn’t just walk away.

Long post. Lots of information about local group taking up part of the Yellow Ribbon Girls mission

The Blue Star Mothers of Southwestern Pennsylvania are shipping several times throughout the year. Please “like” their group for their shipping schedule and updates

Military Mission is brand new! Details
Below

WELCOME TO MILITARY MISSION

Military Mission is a newly formed group of concerned citizens organizing to ship holiday care packages to our troops deployed around the world. All core members of this group were part of the Yellow Ribbon Girls 20 year mission to send supplies, holiday items and treats to our troops.

Several churches in Beaver County along with lots of caring community members will be signing Christmas cards, creating crafts and collecting supplies to ship in mid November.

Collection dates are: October 9 - November 9
Details on drop off locations will follow
Box packing will be November 13-15 in Beaver

If you, your family, church, school or club would like to be part of this mission, please email:

Barbara... [email protected] or

Linda... [email protected]

Postage for each care package is estimated to be $25.00. Donations to help cover postage costs are needed and appreciated.

Please mail your donation for postage or to help purchase extra supplies requested by the troops to:

Military Mission

895 Corporation St. Unit 203, Beaver, PA 15009

Do you have access to copier/computer paper boxes? We need them.

Do you want to collect from your circle of friends and meet us to deliver? All are welcome!

Do you have small items that can help fill our 400 stockings? Suggestions are pens, granola bars, beef sticks, packs of gum and small candy.

Do you have a family member/friend deployed? Contact us with their information

With YOUR help, we can continue to support our local deployed troops and those traveling through various USOs and Red Cross locations around the world.

An e-mail will follow with drop-off locations.

09/11/2023

The reason today is our birthday is THIS day changed our family FOREVER!

We realized that our loved ones would be deployed soon and something MUST be done to support them.

Over the next 20 years,with YOUR support, we were able to provide supplies,treats and morale boosts to the deployed troops

Thankful For each and every soldier who protects us

Thankful for each and every donation to support the troops

God Bless the USA

11/19/2022

11/06/2022

Some of our members filling Xmas stockings for vets at Yellow Ribbon Girls on Tuesday. 💛

09/19/2022

Hello to all. Sorry for the delay in posting the 2022 Soldier Adoption Form. (The new Facebook settings are hard to navigate)

IF you are unable to print the Facebook version of the form please contact us for an email of printed copy.

Thanks in advance for sharing and "Adopting" This will be the Yellow Ribbon Girls last Soldier Christmas.

Your signed Christmas cards are due before November 1st.

Supplies or gifts to be included in the Christmas care packages are needed before noon on Monday November 7th.

09/19/2022

Please Help Save Christmas For Our Deployed Troops!

The Yellow Ribbon Girls and their faithful group of volunteers and supporters have been able to ship monthly care packages and BIG boxes of Christmas treasures around the world to our deployed troops for almost 20 years. This year we have been blessed with fundraisers/donations that have kept the care packages filled and shipping. As we near Soldier Christmas 2022 we again are in need of your help to cover the postage on the BIG Christmas care packages.

IT IS TRUE
The Yellow Ribbon Girls are retiring in February 2023. At that time we will have reached 20 years of monthly care packages created and shipped. We are SO thankful for everyone in our circle of support.

WE NEED YOUR HELP.
2021 was our BIGGEST Christmas ever - 330 Extra Large care packages were created and shipped. The postage on last year’s Christmas care packages was over $14,000.00. Again this year each box will be full of Christmas decorations, holiday treats, basic supplies and gifts. The approximate postage for each package will be $50.00. Can 2022 be BIGGER? That is up to you.

PLEASE ADOPT A DEPLOYED SOLDIER FOR CHRISTMAS
The same product availability/shortages that affects us here in the states is magnified for the troops. They are living in temperatures up to 120 degrees, and many USOs are still operating on limited schedules. Our deployed troops NEED to know they are NOT being forgotten back here at home.

CAN YOUR CHURCH, BUSINESS, CLUB OR WORKPLACE ADOPT A SOLDIER OR TWO?
Please share this message far and wide. The Yellow Ribbon Girls will create and ship the BIG boxes of Christmas treasures in early November. The sooner we know how many of our soldiers are adopted, the sooner we can plan collections for the items to fill their stockings and provide them with basic supplies.

To learn more about the Yellow Ribbon Girls, the supplies needed on a monthly basis and how you can support the troops throughout the year, visit our website at: www.yellowribbongirls.com or locate us on Facebook, at: yellowribbongirls.yrg

Please complete the form below and mail it with your check of $50.00 for each adopted care package to:

Wesbanco, 600 Lawrence Avenue, Ellwood City, PA 16117
Attn: Yellow Ribbon Girls
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2022 Yellow Ribbon Girls Soldier Christmas Adoption Form

Your name: _______________________________________
Your address:______________________________________

___________Number of soldiers/packages you or your group can adopt: @ $50.00 each package

PLEASE consider writing a letter, or signing a Christmas Card, to be included in the care packages you adopt. You may also choose to include your mailing address or e-mail address in your message to your soldier.

06/28/2022

We have received many care packages from your organization and I
want to thank you for your support and thoughtfulness. Freedom is Not Free
but thankfully we live in a nation where people still volunteer to protect
it. I want to thank you for things you and your group are doing to support
us in this effort. In these times support like you are providing is not as
common as it once was. Not just the packages but also the hand written notes
mean a lot to our soldiers who are over here away from their families and
loved ones. We appreciate all that you do. May God Bless America and May God
Bless your organization.

Very respectfully

Michael E.
SGM, Chief Religious Affairs NCOIC

06/26/2022

The letter below is from the mom of one of our young female soldiers. If this message motivates you to donate, we will send the items her way

Hi, my name is Laura and my daughter is a sergeant in the US Army! She is 23 years old and this is her first deployment. She received a wonderful care package from your organization today. She was thrilled and is so grateful. The letters included were so special!
There was a letter from a North Allegheny high school student. Ironically, I graduated from NA! So that letter was extra special!
This care package not only made Brooke feel good but also our entire family!
Thank you very much! You have no idea how much I appreciate your organization doing this for my daughter!

Laura