A Connecticut woman has brought veterans holiday cheer for more than a decade. She's doing it again this year.

A New Haven woman is organizing her 15th 'Stockings for Soldiers' event during which she collects multiple items for veterans and creates stockings...

November 17, 2022
4:20 PM

A New Haven woman is organizing her 15th 'Stockings for Soldiers' event during which she collects multiple items for veterans and creates stockings that will be delivered to patients at the VA Connecticut Medical Center in West Haven.Lisa Siedlarz said the donations being sought are: full size bars of soap, socks, shaving cream, toothpaste, individually wrapped tooth brushes, medium sized hand/body lotion and deodorant. Also, granola bars, snack sized packages of raisins, chapstick, puzzle books, new pens, individually wrapped hard candies and life savers, snack sized cookies such as Oreos or Chips Ahoy, purse-sized tissue packets, gum, peanut butter crackers, cheese crackers, Slim Jims, handmade cards, and candy canes.

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