Volunteers from Operation Touch of Home are once again making and sending hats, scarves and blankets to United States veterans. The group spent their summer making the gifts to send out for the holidays.

“We make the hats and scarves and the blankets and collect them in October so we have time to get them assembled and shipped out in time for Christmas,” said Tammy Gower, President of Touch of Home.

“We do this for the veterans. It is about them, not about us, so our volunteers prefer to be anonymous.”

In the past two years the local group has provided more than 200 sets to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. This year the group will be delivering about 80 sets locally in mid-December to the VA hospital in Wilkes-Barre and to Valor House in Jonas.

“We just want to try and make the season a little merrier for our brave soldiers,” Gower said.