Georgetown's Sam Mroz rallies to help troops, veterans

Aug. 19--Sam Mroz, about to start his senior year at Georgetown Middle High School, has been helping troops and veterans for years and he hopes you'll join him by donating items through the Project 351.

"I'm doing a 9/11 Tribute Service Project with Project 351 in partnership with the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fun, and our mission is to honor and remember the lives lost both on 9/11 and the lives lost of local military members since," Mroz told the Board of Selectmen a their recent meeting.

The 9/11 Tribute Service Project, part of Project 351 that works in partnership with the Massachusetts Miliary Heroes Fund, collects items from a wish list of sorts to send from everyt city and town in Massachusetts to active duty troops as well as to veterans here in the United States who are struggling with homelessness.

"We're going to be packaging those items on the Rose Kennedy Greenway as part of Gov. Baker's sort of memorial of 9/11 in Boston," Mroz explained further. "And so, in Georgetown what we're going to be doing is collecting these items that will be packaged on the Rose Kennedy Greenway -- such as instant powdered drink mixes, single-serve snacks, shampoo, hand-sanitizer wipes and bog spray wipes, and that list is also on the library website."

And there's a donations box at the Georgetown Peabody Library in which you can drop off donations up until Sept. 4.

"Project 351 is a youth leadership organization that unites one eighth grader from each city and town in Massachusetts -- so 351 eighth graders in total, and I was selected by my teachers as an eighth grader at Georgetown Middle School," Mroz said. "And then I reapplied to become an alumni of Project 351. I'd say there are probably about 50 of us alumni who are high schoolers. So each year since, I've continued with Project 351 and there are a few service drives throughout the year, and the 9/11 service is one of them. This is my fourth year running the 9/11 service."

The donation bin will be at the Georgetown Peabody Library through Sept. 4.

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Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Wednesday, 2 to 8 p.m.

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Thursday, closed

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Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Saturday, closed from July through Labor Day

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Sunday, closed

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