Despite the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Adopt-A-Soldier Door County was still able to deliver 85 boxes of care packages to local soldiers deployed overseas. Nancy Hutchinson, the founder of Adopt-A-Soldier, says the organization typically sends out over 1,000 packages a year. She shares how the program designed for soldiers adjusted and donated back into the community locally.

Hutchinson notes that the Adopt-A-Soldier program is planning to take the collection of items during the first quarter of 2021, with about 85 to 90 Easter care packages being sent to troops stateside and abroad. Other shipments would go out for Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The packing operation moved last year to Door Bible Baptist Church in Brussels, and Hutchinson adds that hopes are to have more volunteers helping with the program in the future when the COVID-19 health crisis is more under control.