Army veteran from Edison takes part in Operation Shoebox anniversary

Seventeen members of the Middlesex County College Veterans and Servicemembers Association and their friends and family joined more than 100 other Operation Shoebox volunteers as they packed boxes of food and personal hygiene items for troops overseas at the Walter Kavanaugh VFW in Manville on Feb. 10, on the 13th anniversary of the first Operation Shoebox program. Pictured are Frances Ross of Somerset, a U.S. Army veteran; left to right, her sister Kelly Walker of Edison; and Crystal Greenhow of Edison, MCC’s veterans student success coach.