Milford Charity Helps Troops Get Holiday Care Packages

MILFORD, MA — A local charity that sends care packages to U.S. troops stationed abroad got a boost recently from a Milford nonprofit. Thanks To Yanks sent a $1,000 donation to the Weymouth-based CarePacks organization.

The donation will help CarePacks send items to troops during the holiday season, Thanks To Yanks founder Mike Shain said. CarePacks was founded in 2004 to provide troops with items like snacks, clothes, and even hand-written letters from Boy and Girl Scouts.

Thanks To Yanks was founded in Milford in 2006 with a dinner to support soldiers who went to war after the Sept. 11 attacks. The dinner began with 120 attendees in 2006 and grew to 450 by 2018. The 13th annual dinner was held this past Sept. 11 and was sold out.

Thanks To Yanks also makes regular donations to area causes — in October, the nonprofit gave $500 to the Italian American War Veterans Post 40 in Milford to fix the building's heating system.