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Annual cookie drive brings Christmas cheer to Minot AFB airmen

Submitted Photo Volunteers prepare for distribution a vast number of Christmas cookies at the Minot Air Force Base Chapel Annex on Wednesday. An annual project, the cookies are distributed to young airmen. Photo by George Gutierrez, Minot AFB Public Affairs.

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – It’s become a tradition for Minot Air Force Base and the Minot community to come together to provide hundreds of home baked cookies to be distributed to young airmen.

The cookies for the Cookie Drive for Airmen are provided by the Minot Area Chamber EDC, Minot civilians, Minot AFB Spouses’ Club and Minot AFB families. First sergeants deliver the cookies to the airmen.

The Minot AFB Spouses’ Club sponsors the annual cookie drive.

“The cookies are distributed by the first shirts to the youngest airmen who are in the dorms,” said Carri Walters, spouse of 5th Bomb Wing commander Col. Michael Walters.

“It means so much to them as for many of them it is their first time away from home so something home baked and bagged especially for them makes them feel special during the holidays.

“It wouldn’t be possibly without the support of the Chamber. They provide thousands of cookies they gather throughout the community and they are key in the success of the Cookie Drive. We are so grateful that they help us to take care of our airmen especially during the holidays,” Carri Walters said.

Tanya Menuey, spouse of 91st Missile Wing commander Col. Christopher Menuey, said, “We have about thirty-five spouses that come throughout the day to help bag the cookies and it’s fun for them to give back to the base community.”

In the Minot community, earlier the Minot Area Chamber EDC asked for donations of home baked cookies to go to young airmen who probably are away from their families for the first time during the holidays.

The overall goal between the base and downtown is 1,200 dozen cookies, which means one dozen homemade treats per person for the first-term airmen living in the dorms, according to the Chamber.

(George Gutierrez, Minot AFB Public Affairs, contributed to this story.)

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