Time is running out to achieve the ambitious Mail Call: Letters From Home goal set at the beginning of this month to collect 1,000 letters and notes for our deployed service members.
During this month-long challenge, community members have been encouraged to stop by one of a dozen businesses throughout Webster which are hosting mailboxes (like the one above) and fill out a card with a simple message of thanks, or we’re thinking of you, or we’re proud of you. The messages will then be sent overseas this June inside care packages prepared by the Blue Star Mothers of Rochester.
The month is almost over and Cherie Wood, the project’s organizer, reports she’s counted 800 cards and letters so far. So we really need to step up these next few days, Webster, and put this great initiative over the top!
We still have a few days to make that happen, so when you’re out and about today or tomorrow, consider stopping by one of these businesses to fill out a message and put it in the mailbox:
- American Legion Cottreall-Warner Post 942: 818 Ridge Rd (back entrance).
- Jersey Mike’s Subs: 975 Ridge Rd.
- Key Bank: 1848 Empire Blvd.
- Key Bank: 980 Ridge Rd.
- Lowes Home Improvement: 900 Five Mile Line Rd.
- Mama Lor’s Cafe: 1891 Ridge Rd.
- Pearl Vision: (Wegmans plaza) 900 Holt Rd.
- Salvatore’s Old Fashioned Pizzeria: 195 North Ave/ (Rt 250)
- Village Quilt Shoppe: 21 E Main St.
- Webster Public Library: 980 Ridge Rd.
- Webster Recreation Center: 1350 Chiyoda Dr.
- Webster Town Hall: 1000 Ridge Rd.
Can’t make it this week? The mailbox at Town Hall will be up until May 16, and the folks at Lowe’s will be hosting their mailbox all year, so loom for it when you stop in for your gardening supplies.
Cherie has high hopes that once she’s had time to collect the mail from all of the mailboxes, the messages will number well over 1,000. So, given the incredible response she’s seen from our community, she’s already planning to run the Mail Call project again next year.
So start saving your blank cards (without them “we would have been sunk,” Cherie said) and talk to your clubs and groups about having card-making parties. Teachers, this would be a great class project! The more, the better, because every single one of these positive messages from home will brighten the day for a deployed service member.
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(posted 4/28/2025)
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