Volunteers packed about 200 boxes with toothpaste, stationery, drink mixes and Girl Scout cookies on Thursday as part of Costa Mesa's third celebration to support the city's adopted Army company, now serving in Iraq.
The reason? "Just anything we can do to help them since they're doing some hard work over there," said Johan Gout, who brought his 6-year-old daughter Raleigh and a bag of trail mix, beef jerky, batteries and shaving items to the packing party.
The city adopted D Company, 2-25 Aviation Regiment, in September and has sent the soldiers two shipments of care packages.
The next package drive is scheduled Nov. 1, but the city is always accepting donations of snacks and personal items, cards and letters, and postage to send boxes.
