\n\tPackages included candy, shaving cream, peanut butter, foot powder, lotion and more \u2013 everyday items the troops miss while away on active duty.<\/p>\n
\n\tMore than 1,900 items were collected by WBGL staff while broadcasting live from Walmart locations in Champaign, Decatur, Mattoon and Plainfield, as well as Terre Haute, Ind.<\/p>\n
\n\tMore than $2,300 in donations were received and are being sent to Operation Support Our Troops, based out of Naperville, which will assemble and send the packages.<\/p>\n
\n\tWBGL is a nonprofit, listener-supported radio station and can be heard at 91.7 FM in Champaign.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n This Valentine’s Day, Family Friendly WBGL remembered troops serving in every branch of the military by collecting “Treats 4 Troops.” Items were collected by radio listeners purchasing packages at WBGL.org, or dropping them off during live remote broadcasts on Feb. 11. Packages included candy, shaving cream, peanut butter, foot powder, lotion and more \u2013 everyday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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