Clifton Park Day Services has recently started an Adopt a Soldier group. This group stemmed from interest in supporting our troops. Kristen Nelson is a Direct Support Specialist at Wildwood's Clifton Park Day Services program. Her husband, Steve, is currently enrolled in the Army Reserves and the group expressed interest in helping his unit. Steve's unit was recently deployed to Cuba. Our participants wanted to do something nice for them; so a group got together and started a drive to collect items to send them for Valentine's day. The group collected items and put together "Boredom Buster" care packages. Each care package included items such as: granola bars, 100 calorie packs, candy (bubble gum, Twizzlers, and tootsie rolls), stress balls, silly string, word search/crossword puzzles, Checkers, and toy grenades. Our group was happy to send out 8 care packages to the 105 soldiers stationed there.
