So many helped make program a success

Recently, a local 4-H club, the 4-Leafers, whose members are spread out from Champaign through Savoy to St. Joseph, sponsored a sew-a-thon in support of Operation Santa, which sends Christmas stockings stuffed with personal-care items and a few small luxuries to our soldiers overseas.

With the help of the community, the club was able to make 650 stockings, write 377 personal notes, and collect over $1,000 in donations as well as $400 in cash to help with mailing the stockings overseas.

Individual community members, as well as businesses like Monicals, Jimmy John's, Sam's Club, Wal-Mart, Schnucks, Target and Meijer, made this sew-a-thon a spectacular success, and on behalf of the 4-Leafers, we would like to thank the community for helping to brighten a day for the men and women giving parts of their lives to support the freedom with which we enjoy ours.

SUSAN PAWLICKI

St. Joseph

JILL RANNEBARGER

Champaign