PACKED WITH CARE


Photos by DAVID ROBERT NEWMAN/Acorn Newspapers

Photos by DAVID ROBERT NEWMAN/Acorn Newspapers

MILESTONE—Above, Tracy and Faruk Gizatullin of Santa Rosa Valley, left, watch as Dan Langston, right, seals up the 250,000th care package being sent off by For The Troops, a Simi Valley nonprofit that mails supplies to U.S. military personnel. The Gizatullins won the honor of packing the box, which is bound for Miguel Villapana, an Army soldier with the 640th Aviation Support Battalion in Kuwait. At left, Tracy Gizatullin hugs retired Staff Sgt. Phillip Schmidt, who received the first For The Troops care package in 2005.