You may remember — or have participated in — Turkey Hill’s Operation Hometown Hello program which took place in July.
Operation Hometown Hello was a partnership between Turkey Hill Dairy and Turkey Hill Minit Markets which helped collect donations of snacks and other goodies to be shipped to the brave men and women of the Pennsylvania National Guard currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. All you had to do was make a donation in an Operation Hometown Hello box found at any participating Turkey Hill Minit Market. Once the box was filled up, we shipped it off the troops who are always happy to get a taste of home.
We’re proud to announce that Operation Hometown Hello was a success! Thanks to your donations, we shipped more than 550 boxes of beef jerky, bubblegum and other treats overseas to eagerly waiting soldiers. That’s over 5,500 pounds of stuff, or almost one pound for every member of the Pennsylvania National Guard currently deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan!
Below are a few pictures of the troops with the treats many of you donated. Seeing these photos makes us wish we could take the Giant Cow over there and throw a huge ice cream party for these guys. If anyone deserves some time off and a few scoops of mint chocolate chip, it’s them!
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