We’d like to thank our soldiers by sending them as many care packages as possible. Please join us in gathering donations of food, clothing, personal items and handwritten letters of support to ship to overseas troops in time for the holidays. Please take a moment to support this worthy cause.

Please submit the APO address of soldier(s) you know are overseas so that a package can be sent to them.

Donations will be collected through December 5th at these locations:

• Queen of the Valley Medical Center (QVMC)
• Napa Community Bank
• Charter Oak Bank
• West America Bank
• Umpqua Bank
• Bank of Napa
• Net Flow
• Yamaha of Napa
• Silver-Auto Service

Many thanks to our sponsors: Napa Recycling and Waste Services, Napa Community Bank, KVON 1440 AM radio and KVYN FM radio.

MOST REQUESTED ITEMS:

• Letters of support
• Healthy snacks and non-perishable food: – tuna lunch kits (foil pouch of tuna, crackers & condiments) – Beef jerky – Canned fruit (individual serving cans) – Dried fruit (single serving packages) – nuts (esp. sunflower seeds)
• Pre-sweetened flavored beverage mixes (teas, Crystal Light, Gatorade)
• AT&T GLOBAL Pre-Paid Military Calling Cards (only type for Iraq and Afghanistan)
• Postage

FOOD & SNACK ITEMS:
Note: Non-perishable foods only. Single serving sizes preferred. No glass jars.
No pork or pork by-products at all!

• Hard candies
• Gum (blister pack), Lifesavers, mints
• Trail mix
• Power bars, protein bars, nutritional bars
• Beef jerky, beef summer sausage (non-perishable, labeled USDA Beef)
• Snacks, crackers, chips (single serving)
• Pop tarts, cereal bars, “milk & cereal” bars, granola bars
• Ramen noodles, cup-o-noodles serving cups
• Ravioli & other canned ready-to-eat meals (canned or Styrofoam single serving)
• Canned sardines, smoked oysters
• Torengos nacho-style chips & canned nacho cheese dip
• Jalapeno Velveeta & crackers
• Taco Bell Sauce packets
• Seasoning salts, flavoring salts

BEVERAGE ITEMS:

• Coffee, coffee mixes, tea
• Hot cocoa
• Lemonade, Kool-aid, Tang, iced tea mixes
• Sugar & creamer packets for coffee

RECREATIONAL ITEMS:

• Hacky sacks, tennis balls
• Deck of cards
• Hand-held games
• Gameboy Advance games
• Movie DVDs (new or used, original only)
• Music CDs (new or used, original copy only)
• Portable DVD players
• Portable CD players
• Coloring books and colored pencils

CLOTHING ITEMS:

• Boot socks
• Boot liners / insoles
• Odor Eaters for boots
• Underwear & t-shirts

COMMUNICATION ITEMS:

• Envelopes, paper, pens
• Small pads of paper
• Notebooks (pocket size)
• Drawing pads (small)
• Small, blank journals

PERSONAL SUPPLY & CARE ITEMS:

• Disposable, instant hand warmers
• Batteries (AA, AAA)
• Tactical Duct tape: military green, tan or black (very necessary!)
• Electrical tape
• 72” bootlaces (brown or tan)
• Leatherman All-in-One Tool
• Ziploc bags (sandwich, quart and 1 gal)
• Small travel pillow or inflatable pillows
• Lotrimin AF or Tinactin for athletes foot (tubes or bottle of drops, no aerosol spray)
• Medicated foot powder, foot swabs
• Moleskin
• Lip balm (Chapsticks, not tub style)
• Eye drops (to relieve dry eye not red eye)
• Sunblock
• Throat Lozenges
• Aspirin, Motrin, Tylenol, pain relievers (small containers)
• Saline Spray / drops for sensitive nasal passages
• Q-tips
• Eyeglass wipes
• Baby wipes (alcohol free)
• Liquid body wash (no pump dispensers)
• Liquid hand sanitizers (no pumps)
• Disposable hand sanitizing wipes
• Toothbrushes
• Nail clippers
• Shampoo (travel size)
• Deodorant (travel size)
• Toothpaste “bottles”
• Brush-Ups
• Lotion (no pumps)
• Disposable razors
• Kleenex travel size packets

Whenever possible, items should be in small, travel-size and/or re-sealable containers.