McCloud women craft special cards for soldiers serving overseas
Shareen Strauss
Mt. Shasta Area Newspapers
Two McCloud hobby crafters, Joyce Scarbough and Kat Abbott, have put their passion and love of handcrafting to good use and joined Cards for Soldiers.
This nonprofit organization can be found on Facebook. Cards for Soldiers is for people in the military overseas that sometimes have no other way to connect with their families.
Charly Mathews, coordinator of the program, says that the project is two-fold.
“We make signed greeting cards to be sent to our troops deployed overseas,” Mathews said. “We send cards out to let them know that we appreciate their service. We also send out holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and blank cards for soldiers to send back to their families and keep in touch with them. Troops don t always have access to email or phone service.”