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Mount Vernon High School students and members of the Mount Vernon Community help America’s Adopt A Soldier fill care packages for deployed soldiers. The “care packing” was held at Mount Vernon High School Jan. 19.

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Mount Vernon High School Hosts ‘Care Packing’ for Deployed Soldiers

There are all kinds of flash mobs. Instead of a marriage proposal or elaborate dance routine, more than 200 Mount Vernon High School students and members of the community descended on the school’s cafeteria on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to assemble care packages for deployed soldiers.

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