By JAMES BELL
Hays Post
Next week students and families from Lincoln Elementary school are set to celebrate veterans.
From 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday on the school playground, participants will gather to hear music, enjoy refreshments and, perhaps most importantly, support the Fort Dodge Soldier's Home.
"It's really going to be a fun time," said Lincoln Elementary principal Kerri Lacy. "We are also at that time taking donations for the Fort Dodge Soldiers Home. They greatly appreciate those donations that are needed, you know nonperishable food items and things like that."
She said the home is a place for soldiers to seek assistance.
"It is, I want to say, kind of a place where soldiers can go and get help if they need it," Lacy said. "Their families can get help if they need it."
With area soldiers so far removed from an active base, she said having a place to seek help when needed is a blessing.
"You know, we are not close to a commissary type (place) on base," Lacy said. "So they have a place where soldiers can reach out and get help for their families."
Requested donations include food and clothing items, she said.
"Things like non-perishable food items," Lacy said. "Kleenex, toilet paper, dish soap, laundry soap, T-shirts and sweatpants, usually large, extra-large, double extra-large, those can be brought that night or if you can't come that night. You can also drop those donations for the soldier house at Lincoln at any time."
