Connecticut
Boxes to Boots volunteers prepare for Operation Cares 2024
NBC Connecticut, Comcast and Telemundo are partnering with Boxes to Boots. They’re getting ready to send care packages to service members overseas.
In Berlin, dozens of volunteers are taking donated supplies and getting them ready to be sent overseas at Operation Cares 2024.
What may seem like a small act of kindness can make a big impact.
“Anything that comes from home is a welcome surprise,” Michael Koff, of Cheshire, said.
He’s a veteran who served in the U.S. Army Infantry for 25 years. He’s helping the Boxes to Boots crew on Veteran’s Day, saying it would have been nice to receive a care package like this when he was deployed.
“I can just reflect on what it would be like receiving one of these boxes when you’re deployed,” Koff said.
“It’s our job as a community to put these packages together and make sure our troops know they’re still supported and remembered and loved by us at home,” Kristen Gauvin, the president of Boxes to Boots, said.
The team is getting ready for Operation Cares 2024, where Gauvin said they expect 700 volunteers to help out.
She said they’re expecting a record number of 1,600 boxes to be sent this year, and there’s still a waiting list of recipients.
The boxes have it all.
“Popcorn and theater-sized candy, socks, t-shirts, breakfast items and some good coffee,” Gauvin said.
Community support has only grown, too. This year, 11 Xfinity stores accepted donations, with those supplies in the mix for Monday’s packing.
“We’ve seen a continued uptick in the amount of donations and we’ve been able to have that impact,” Daniel Glanville, of Comcast, said.
Operation Cares 2024 is happening on Saturday at New Britain High School.
Naugatuck Police say one person has been arrested after a multi-car accident on Route 63 Saturday afternoon.
According to police, they responded to the area of Route 63 and Cherry Street around 1 p.m. for reports of a collision with injuries.
They say a 30-year-old man from Waterbury was arrested and charged with operating under the influence of drugs/alcohol, operating under the influence with a child passenger, illegal possession of prescription drugs, failure to keep narcotics in the original container, risk of injury to a child and distracted driving.
Police say he is being held on a $10,000 Surety Bond.
This is all the information at this time.
BURLINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — A woman is dead after police said she was involved in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer on Friday in Burlington.
According to Connecticut State Police, a Toyota RAV4 and Peterbuilt 386 tractor-trailer collided head-on on Route 4 near Punch Brook Road at around 4:49 p.m. on Friday.
The driver of the Toyota, identified as 64-year-old Mary Christine Ferland of Burlington, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured, according to state police. No one else was in either vehicle at the time of the crash.
The crash is still under investigation by state police, anyone with information is asked to call Trooper Brew at 860-626-7900.
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