HOLIDAY MAIL FOR HEROES

Holiday Mail for Heroes program, which helps to “send a touch of home” to United States service members and veterans across the country and abroad, is in it's third year of operation. Access this web link http://www.redcross.org/holidaymail. Even if you don’t have access to the internet, your Holiday cards can still be mailed and addressed as follows: Holiday Mail for Heroes, PO Box 5456, Capitol Heights, MD 207914-5456 from Monday, November 2 through Monday, December 7. The cards will be collected through this unique P.O. Box, then screened for hazardous materials by Pitney Bowes, and distributed to participating Red Cross chapters nationwide. Once the cards arrive at the Red Cross chapters, they are sorted and reviewed by volunteers who then distribute them to service members, their families and veterans in communities across the country. A few easy tips are to sign all cards, entitle each card with a salutation such as ‘Dear Service Member, Family or Veteran”, and limit cards to 15 per person, or 50 for school class or business group, and bundle groups of cards in single, large envelopes, addressed to the PO box above.

Fishing is still going strong on the Salmon River here in White Bird, Idaho. A few storage guests are coming over to spend the night and toss their lines in the river, and there's open spaces too.

Weather is good...a bit of rain this past week, and a touch of snow...but not here on the Salmon River! Sunshine!