Blue Ridge helped raise $35,000 in monetary donations through its annual fundraising and marketing awareness campaign for this year's Keystone Military Families Stockings For Soldiers initiative. The money raised supported the costs of purchasing, shipping and distributing close to 12,000 holiday-filled stockings to military personnel around the world just in time for Christmas.

Stockings For Soldiers is a Keystone Military Families annual campaign which aims to ship 8,000 to 10,000 holiday stockings filled with food, hygiene products, holiday decorations, Christmas cards and other requested items. Each dollar raised for Stockings For Soldiers helps provide the stockings and stuffers, as well as defray the cost of shipping the care packages to soldiers stationed around the world who were not home for Christmas.

In addition to monetary donations, Keystone Military Families also received more than 13,000 stockings, handmade ornaments and personalized items.

Those who would like to become involved in next year's Stockings For Soldiers initiative may contact Cindy Mellinger at cmellinger@brctv.com or 717-733-6006, ext. 2551.