Ocean City Students Collect Treats For Troops This Holiday Season

OCEAN CITY, NJ — Ocean City Primary School students are spreading holiday cheer to those who won't be home for the holidays. The students collected donations and made cards for military overseas.

The project was inspired by a kindergarten student whose father is in the Marine Crops. He will be overseas in Afghanistan for the holiday season and may not return to Ocean City until August.

Primary School teacher Jennifer DeVlieger and her class led the project. The Primary School has collected donations of treats such as nuts, trail mix, granola bars, beef jerky, Pringles, PopTarts, pretzels and other packaged snacks to send overseas.

The community helped students collect 21 boxes of goods. The Ocean City Police Benevolent Association will cover the cost of shipping boxes and letters.

"When we found out that a student’s father would be deployed during the holidays we could not imagine the emotional impact this would have on her and her family and wanted to find a way to help," said Superintendent Dr. Kathleen Taylor. "Although we cannot bring this soldier home, we can send some pieces of home to him and his company."

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