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6th Annual Support Our Troops Week at the Pittsburgh Inn
Posted on Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 2:45 PM

 

6th Annual Support Our Troops Week at the Pittsburgh Inn Sept. 8th – 13th!

Please help us support our troops! Bring in items from our list, and we’ll send them to the troops! Donors will receive a free appetizer and one chance for every item you bring in to win a beautiful handmade leather purse or an “everything Erie” gift basket!

Items needed:

  • bandaids
  • hand & foot warmers
  • itch cream for bug bites
  • sticky mouse traps, large & small & fly strips
  • energizer lithium aa & aaa batteries & 9 volt
  • nuts
  • toothpaste
  • foot powder
  • small Christmas stockings
  • candy canes
  • small led battery operated mini Christmas lights
  • beef stick & beef jerky
  • drink mix
  • powdered Gatorade drink mix or protein drink mixes
  • laundry soap pods
  • antiperspirant/deodorant
  • cards & letters of thanks
  • socks ,white, black or green
  • Aleve pain reliever
  • hot chocolate packets
  • shaving cream, Gillette Mach 3 razors & refills
  • cash for postage

Land of the free because of all those who serve………..the brave!  2013 boxes sent & counting, until they all come home!!!
   
 

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