By By JOHN EBY / Dowagiac Daily News
Chocolate bars didn't travel well, "but they threw them in coolers and got them hard and they didn't care" that they melted "because they can't get that stuff apparently. I was talking to him online about all this stuff they can't get over there."
So one thing soldiers will be getting is hard candies from Caruso's.
Nate Wines, Bahama Mama Tanning, True's Towing, Zeke's, Majerek's, Beeson Street Bar, Round Oak Restaurant, Suite Dreams, Daylight Donuts, Wounded Minnow, Harding's Friendly Market, Myers of Sister Lakes, Fred Kirsch, Caruso's Candy Kitchen, Wood Fire, Hale's Hardware, Mr. Wahoo's, Sunny Acres, Oil Can Alley, First Choice Automotive, Spruce Ridge, Hampshire, Imperial Furniture, Bud Distributing, Pacific Quest Day Spa and Preferred Printing.
That's 25 sets of lotions, sunscreens and wipes, etc., in one big box.
The state VFW also has a program for phone cards on which the club will pay the taxes, according to Commander Jim Sylvester.
Her great-grandfather, John Kingsley in World War I, and grandfather Robert Kingsley in World War II, influenced her to become involved with the VFW, which Tuesday night had a preliminary meeting with an architect for a 40-foot addition toward the Mill Pond.