At last night’s Judith’s Reading Room BOXING PARTY, more than 50 people participated along with the LV Steelhawks football team to box books for the troops.

Adult and children’s books, hand-picked by team members from Judith’s Reading Room shelves,  will be shipped to Sailors on board the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier, to the Army stationed at Camp Phoenix, Kabul, Afghanistan, to Airmen and women based at Ail al-Salem Air Base near Kuwait City, to U.S. Marines stationed in Japan, Guam and the Philippines, to nurses attending our wounded warriors at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.  Six boxes were packed for area VA hospitals and one box was packed to open a new Judith’s Reading Room library in East Java, Indonesia.

Together, last night’s L V STEELHAWKS BOXERS packed 843 books with a cover price value of $9,384.  Letters “from the heart” were handwritten by team players are included in every box.

Community sponsors including Valley Wide Signs & Graphics, Entrust Merchant Services, Caliber Funding, CM Designs, Re/Max, Computer Troubleshooters of Bethlehem and Allentown Toy donated $500 to offset the cost of shipping the boxes to the troops.