Lynden Tribune & Ferndale Record | Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011
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Lynden student coordinating care packages for active service members School bus driver effort, in its third year, is always in need of fresh, accurate addresses Mark Reimers Tribune reporter LYNDEN — The last three years, local school bus drivers have organized a care package collection for local military members serving overseas. For this Christmas season, the effort will be led by a local student. Lynden senior Natasha Campbell said she was unsure what her senior project should be and she considered some other options before settling on this. When it was offered to her, the idea of coordinating and leading the effort appealed to her based on previous letter-writing projects she had helped with, as well as her friendship and connections with several military families. Campbell’s own father is a veteran of the U.S. Navy Seabees. The family also spent time in the Middle East while he worked for Chevron Phillips and made many of those military acquaintances that Natasha values. Campbell said the biggest challenge of the care package effort is not collecting
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all the goods and goodies but rather finding enough local service members to send them to. Bus driver Martha Kooiman, who helped start the effort in 2008 while her son Nic was serving in the U.S. Army, said the first few times posed such a challenge in gathering enough names on the ever-changing list of recipients that the organizers held some boxes over or donated them to other organizations like Whatcom Homefront. Campbell said the effort to find names this year is helped by some online resources, but the best means of finding people is mainly through word of mouth or from the families themselves. Along with the goods being sent in the boxes, local students are being recruited from schools to write letters to those serving in the military. Campbell said she knows how much letters can mean to service men and women, who can lead a very lonely life while on duty overseas. “You can easily forget that you have
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