Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Webster Public Library on Saturday to write cards and letters to our deployed troops as part of April’s Mail Call: Letters From Home Challenge.
Haven’t heard about this yet? In short, it’s a month-long challenge for Webster to write 1,000 cards and letters to our deployed troops, which will then be included in care packages sent overseas in June.
You may have already noticed one or more of the “Mail Call” mailboxes which have been placed in a dozen businesses and agencies throughout town. Community members are being encouraged to stop by one of these mailboxes, write a card (or several) and deposit them in the box. The library is hosting one of these mailboxes, and if you didn’t make it Saturday, you can still stop in anytime this week; there’ll be a table set up in the lobby with cards and materials.
But LOTS of people DID stop by on Saturday. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., tables in the library’s Community Room were filled with cards, markers, stickers, crayons … everything and anything needed to make a beautiful card, or just write a quick thank-you. And for most of that time, the tables were also filled with adults and children, coloring and stickering and creating. The kids especially loved the project.
Mail Call organizer Cherie Wood estimates that about 140 people came to write a card. By the end of the day, 126 personalized messages had been stuffed into the library’s mailbox to be “mailed” to our service members.
That’s a great start, but 1,000 cards and letters is a big challenge. So keep an eye out for the mailboxes throughout town, and get writing! You can do them at home, even make it a family project. Teachers can make it a class project, or ask your church group to make cards.
And by the way, the Blue Star Mothers would like to include a box of Girl Scout cookies in each care package, but don’t have quite enough yet. If you’d like to donate a few, click this link, then scroll down to where it says “Donate Cookies.”
Thank you, Webster!
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(posted 4/6/2025)
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Well done, Webster! Congrats! And, if you stop in the library this week, keep in mind that it is National Library Week [https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek ] How to celebrate? Hug a Librarian? Bring cookies? Maybe flowers? Or just say, “Thanks for all you do!” and smile.