Soldiers’ care boxes
The Snohomish High School Marine Corps JROTC hosts a Care Package Drive during Armed Forces Appreciation Day on Saturday at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium in Snohomish.
It’s planned from 10 a.m. to noon at 1316 Fifth St. There will be a football scrimmage between Snohomish, Glacier Peak, Cascade and Mercer Island high schools.
Members of all four armed services will be in attendance.
If you plan to go, please take along items for care packages for those serving in Afghanistan.
For instance, they need canned goods, small board games, toiletries, powdered drink packets, batteries, paperback books and baby wipes.
For more information about what goods to bring, go to http://tinyurl.com/MilitaryCare.
Benefit for boy: A fundraiser rummage sale is planned in Snohomish to help pay medical bills for a family that includes a son in elementary school who has cancer.
The sale is planned for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at Little Cedars Elementary School, 7408 144th Place SE in Snohomish.
Drop off goods from 2 to 7 p.m. Friday at the covered playground area.
Any items not sold at the sale will be donated to Goodwill.
Buy doughnuts during the sale, too, to benefit the Rayshawn Franklin Benevolent fund.
Gabby open house: A Gipson Gabbers Toastmaster Open House is planned for 10 a.m. Saturday at Carl Gipson Senior Center, 3025 Lombard Ave. in Everett.
They meet twice a month.
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