Volunteers are collecting $15 sponsorships at Goodwives Stop and Shop for the next two Saturdays to buy wreaths for veterans graves during the Christmas Season.
This announcement from Darien members of Wreaths Across America has the details:
Darien High School Support Our Soldiers Club members Lucy Armstrong and Madeleine Keane joined the Darien VFW Post #6933 Commander and 2016 Darien Memorial Day Grand Marshal, Lenny Hunter, at Goodwives Stop and Shop last weekend to collect sponsorships for Wreaths Across America. (contributed photo)
Sponsorships will be collected from 9 a.m. to 12 noon again at the Stop and Shop supermarket at Goodwives Shopping Center, 25 Old Kings Hwy. N., this Saturday, Oct. 29 and the next Saturday, Nov. 5. Wreath sponsorships at $15 per wreath go towards the placement of wreaths at Darien’s Spring Grove Veterans Cemetery.
Sponsorships were also collected in front of the Goodwives Stop and Shop by Darien VFW Chaplain, Dennis Clayburn with former VFW Commander and Chairman of Darien’s Monuments and Ceremonies Commission, Phil Kraft. (contributed photo)
The public is invited to attend to help with the Wreath Laying Ceremony, which will take place there at noon on Dec. 17, 2016.
Wreaths can be ordered online at the Wreaths Across America website. Online orders are required to have the codes CTSGVD and CT0007 designation for Spring Grove Cemetery so that wreaths get to the Darien location.