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Valentines For Heroes

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:35:46 CST
With February 14th less than a month away, Congressman John Shimkus is asking for Valentines to be sent to his office. The annual “Valentines For Heroes” program sends valentines to area veterans and men and women serving in the military. Shimkus says his office has been doing the program for numerous years.

“It's just a way, in kind of an off time, you know, people think about veterans over Christmas, maybe Easter, this is kind of an interim time when people think about loved ones and this is how we are helping show that love. The other good thing is a lot of schools take this up as a cause as a craft work for kids. A lot of kids from many different ages put together valentines so they can get that craft work done in an art class, but they also can get kind of the service aspect of doing it to send someone a real world project. So, it's been very very successful and we're doing it again.”

To find out more about the Valentines For Heroes program, contact the Maryville office of Congressman John Shimkus at (618) 288-7190 or go to Shimkus' Website. The office will accept Valentines until February 5th.

Thomack 1/25/16