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How This Milford Restaurant Helped Deployed MA Troops

The eatery partnered with a local charity to collect and send care packages.

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A Milford restaurant partnered with a local organization to send care packages to troops.
A Milford restaurant partnered with a local organization to send care packages to troops. (Thanks To Yanks)

MILFORD, MA — A restaurant in Milford is helping deployed troops feel at home. The Red Heat Tavern hosted a donation drive to make care packages for a Massachusetts National Guard unit.

Soldiers of the 1060th TC enjoyed care packages with cookies and other reminders of home. The Red Heat Tavern partnered with Thanks to Yanks, a nonprofit organization that partners with local businesses to collect and ship items to those currently serving.

Thanks to Yanks/Red Heat Tavern in Milford helped send care packages to troops.

The restaurant's Thanks to Yanks Donation Drive happened this spring. Community members were asked to donate personal care and nonperishable food items. Soldiers smiled with their new goods in a photo to say thank you to the Red Heat Tavern.

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