Members of Blue Star Mothers of America recently packed and shipped 72 CARE packages for troops serving overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Items for the packages were collected at Sam's Club in Highlands Ranch. It costs $8.10 to mail each package.

Blue Star Mothers is an organization of mothers who now have or have had children serving in the military. The purpose of the organization is to support all men and women who are serving or who have served our country as members of the Armed Forces of the United States.

Thornton resident Nancy Flanigan is pictured to the left. Nancy's son, 2nd LT Scott Flanigan, is in the Army, currently stationed with the 2nd Infantry Division in Baghdad, Iraq. Scott was deployed in October of 2006 out of Ft. Carson, Colorado.

Blue Star Mothers of America, Denver Chapter #3, meets every Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. at Hope United Methodist Church, 5101 South Dayton Street, Greenwood Village, Colorado, on the southwest corner of Dayton and Belleview (about one mile east of I-25). For more information about Blue Star Mothers or to donate "Coins for Care Packages", contact Lynne Hunt at 303-683-2676 or lynnebhunt@gmail.com.