Drive provides gifts to troops

The gifts will be gathered at Chemtool sites and then taken on a semitruck to Operation Support Our Troops - Illinois in Naperville where they will be shipped out.
Owner Jim Athans spearheaded the partnership and has received support from employees including organizers Bob Shockley, a plant manager for Metalcote Division, and Lindsay DuBois, a sales representative with the Metalcote Division.

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Return ends Ill. Guard mission

Although the Illinois brigade lost 18 members, the unit it replaced – a New York brigade – lost eight in its nine-month deployment.

According to the guard, Illinois soldiers received 100 Purple Hearts and 130 Bronze Stars. Among other things, they helped build 15 schools and a dozen clinics and delivered 2.7 million pounds of humanitarian aid. They’re being replaced by a Georgia Guard unit.

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