Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Thank you to everyone who participated in the recent Operation Christmas Child project by bringing your boxes to Newington Baptist Church, which served as a relay point for the project. We shipped a total of 1,716 boxes.

Your generosity will bring smiles of joy to children in many parts of the world at Christmas when they are blessed with a shoebox you filled and sent.

Thank you also to all who helped with the packing and transporting of the boxes.

Lillian Cox

Gloucester, Va.
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