Johnson County Volunteer Connections

Year of Service Aids Troops

Last Updated on Friday, 02 October 2009 05:23 Friday, 25 September 2009 10:47

Continuing their efforts in a year of service, the City of Franklin, Johnson County Volunteer Connections and the Franklin College Nonprofit Resource Center are partnering with USO Indiana to provide holiday packages to US troops.

USO Indiana is coordinating sending holiday care packages to over 1,200 Indiana troops who are currently deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait. These troops are members of 12 military units, each ranging in size from 18 to 201 soldiers.

Project partners will provide holiday packages to every Indiana serviceman and woman, and these organizations are asking for help. Johnson County community individuals may compile a care package on their own, or an organization may divide the cost. Because packages will be sent to individual troops, there are simple instructions USO Indiana will provide you with to facilitate the delivery of the holiday care packages to the individual soldiers. For more information or to participate, please contact Volunteer Connections at (317) 738-8807 or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Ongoing news on the project, lists of suggested care package items, and more participation instructions may be found at troops.helpjohnsoncounty.com.

Lela Mae Boyd

Last Updated on Monday, 28 September 2009 07:36 Friday, 25 September 2009 10:40

Lela Mae Boyd

By Mark Long

In November 2007 I was asked by the Hospice Volunteer Coordinator at Visiting Nurses Services in Indianapolis if I would be interested in visiting an eighty-eight year old black woman for a few hours each week. She was diabetic and had limited mobility due to arthritis and knee surgeries. She had recently moved to her current one bedroom apartment in a senior complex near downtown. Her only surviving sibling had relocated to Mississippi ten years earlier. Without any family to assist with her care, Lela Mae was referred to Visiting Nurses Services by her doctor through a social worker.

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