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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Mums Of Alums Collect For Service Personnel Overseas

Villa Duchesne Oak Hill Mums of Alums package up 200 boxes of non perishable items to be delivered to our fighting forces overseas.

For the second consecutive year, the Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill Mums of Alums, an organization for the mothers of graduates of the school comminity gathered, prepared and shipped non-perishable items to active duty military personnel, serving overseas. Last year, with a brief window of time, the drive, called Military Outreach packaged up and shipped 75 boxes. Collecting since January 23 of this year, the goal was set closer to 200 boxes. They actually shipped 160 boxes to the post office. A small army of women gathered this past Wednesday to box up and ship the non-perishable goods. This year, for the first time, the Mums made more specific requests by classes at Villa, from seventh through 12th grade. Each class was given a specific …

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