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PTHS Participates in 'Christmas on the River'

PTHS Participates in 'Christmas on the River'
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By WestKyStar Staff
Dec. 06, 2014 | PADUCAH, KY
By WestKyStar Staff Dec. 06, 2014 | 05:53 PM | PADUCAH, KY
Twenty five members of the Paducah Tilghman High School Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (PTHS NJROTC) unit participated in “Christmas on the River,” coordinated by Seaman’s Church Institute (SCI) at the  Grace Episcopal Church in downtown Paducah on Monday, Dec. 1. 

The event, locally coordinated by the Rev. Kempton Baldridge, chaplain at SCI, provides boxes of Christmas gifts for the crews of tow boats that will be underway on the rivers on Christmas Day.  The cadets decorated and packed over 100 boxes with gifts donated for the purpose from people across the United States.   According to Chaplain Baldridge, the donations of hand-knitted items and other items from around the world and overseas arrived after people learned of the project by word of mouth at their church or civic group.

There are approximately 4,000 tow boats on the inland rivers system, along with 18 United States Coast Guard buoy tenders. Chaplain Baldridge said that the Christmas on the River project will provide holiday gift packages to as many of the tow boat crews as possible. 

The Paducah Tilghman NJROTC cadets helped pack boxes, decorating them and creating hand-made Christmas cards for each mariner. The boxes will be delivered to the tow boats before they leave port so that the gifts may be opened by the crew on Christmas day.




Information provided by Wayne Walden, Paducah Public Schools.

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