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Community stuffs stockings bound for overseas troops

Nine-year-old Isabella Enright, of Mokena, hangs her stocking among scores of others during Mokena Community Park District’s Stockings for Our Troops Friday, Nov. 8. Photos by T.J. Kremer III/22nd Century Media
The O’Connor sisters — Ainsley (left), 9; Keira (middle), 11; and Mieve, 6, of Mokena — pose with the stockings they made during Mokena Community Park District’s Stockings for Our Troops Friday, Nov. 8.
Patrick Thompson (left), 6, and Eliana Harvey, 5, both of Mokena, get into the spirit as they decorate stockings stuffed as care packages for US troops overseas.

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T.J. Kremer III, Editor
10:04 am CST November 11, 2019
Christmas came early this year to The Oaks Recreation and Fitness Center in Mokena. Stockings — approximately 300 of them, all individually decorated — stretched from one side of the gym.

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