1st Straw Marketing is baking cookies and collecting your baked cookies.

Operation Yellow Ribbon of South Jersey (OYRSJ) is proud to announce it will be hosting a holiday cookie collection drive to send to the Troops deployed in The Middle East. OYRSJ is honored to offer another opportunity to show our brave women and men deployed in harm’s way that they are supported by grateful Americans here back home.

On Saturday, December 6, from 10 AM – 2 PM at the 8th Legislative District Office at 176 Route 70, Suite 13 in Medford, NJ, volunteers of OYRSJ will greet generous supporters of the community to receive their donated baked goods and treats. Volunteers will pack and box all donated baked and store bought items to be mailed to recipients on OYRSJ’s care package mailing list. This is a great way this holiday season for all of us to show our appreciation for our US Armed Forces and give them a taste of home during this holiday season.

We take this time to thank all our amazing supporters in the community including our friends at the 8th Legislative District Office for their constant support and generosity with allowing us their location for this collection drive.

• Besides baked goods; store bought cookies and treats will also be accepted and shipped.
• Packaging: if possible, please put your cookies in layers in large Ziploc bags or in Glad disposable containers. (Cookie tins will be accepted but they are not our first preference as they weigh more and are costly to ship). Containers of any type will not be returned as they will be used to ship to recipients
• Personal, unsealed notes in with your donations are encouraged. Feel free to write about your cookie baking or a note of encouragement, etc.
• Adults; feel free to include your personal e-mail address should you like a response from our recipients. We cannot promise recipients will correspond as some do not have e-mail access, but we do have some that will write back.
• Children are encouraged to create or write their own holiday cards or notes to show support to our Troops. No last names, addresses, or phone numbers please of children.
• If you have baked goods that you want to contribute but cannot make it on Saturday December 6 to donate, you can drop them off to 1st Straw Marketing & Promotions in Medford on Thursday December 4th and Friday December 5th. For more on these 2 drop off dates; please contact Lynn at sales@1st-Straw.com or call 609-654-2576.
• We will be shipping these items on Monday, December 8. Items will only be accepted in person on Saturday, December 6 in person from 10 AM to 2 PM at the 8th Legislative District Office at 176 Route 70, Suite 13 in Medford, NJ. For more, please contact Dave Silver at OperationYellowRibbonSJ@gmail.com.

Another way to help if you cannot participate is please share and forward this to others. Thank you so much for your support.