Blue Star Moms shine with holiday stockings for deployed troops

LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

12 years ago

Volunteers Rose Cornblatt, left, and Shawnna Ryan fill boxes with goods with the Blue Star Mothers of Henderson and Boulder City as part of the fifth annual Stockings for Our Troops.on Nov. 19 at the Henderson Convention Center. (Robert Winn/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Volunteers Anita Michaliszyn, left, and Shannon Scaletta stuff boxes with donated goods on Nov. 19 with the Blue Star Mothers of Henderson and Boulder City as part of the fifth annual Stockings for Our Troops, Christmas care packages sent to deployed troops. (Robert Winn/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Volunteers Lu Firiel, left, Gail Taylor, Sherry Vasosdol and Jan Carney fill boxes with donated goods on Nov. 19 with the Blue Star Mothers of Henderson and Boulder City as part of the fifth annual Stockings for Our Troops. (Robert Winn/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Volunteers Joyce Dickenson, left, Sharron Green and Dennis Keaton help with the fifth annual Stockings for Our Troops on Nov. 19. They worked with the Blue Star Mothers of Henderson and Boulder City in preparing Christmas care packages for deployed troops. (Robert Winn/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Volunteers stuff boxes with goods with the Blue Star Mothers of Henderson and Boulder City on Nov. 19 as part the fifth annual Stockings for Our Troops, Christmas care packages for deployed troops Tuesday. (Robert Winn/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

The Blue Star Mothers of Henderson and Boulder City and volunteers stuffed hundreds of holiday stockings on Nov. 19 for the fifth annual Stockings for our Troops.

The stockings will be sent to deployed troops who can’t be home with family and friends during the holiday season.