Yellow Ribbon Girls

November 14, 2022

Mayor Court Presents Yellow Ribbon Girls With Proclamation

Mayor Anthony J. Court presented the Yellow Ribbons Girls with a proclamation recognizing 20 years of commitment and dedication to our troops. Yellow Ribbon Girls is a faith based group of local volunteers. Bonnie Phillippi, Patti Phillippi, and Vicki Henley started The Yellow Ribbon Girls 20 years ago and sent over 40,000 packages to our deployed service men and women all over the world. In February 2023, The Yellow Ribbon Girls are retiring. They are hoping to pass the mission on to a new group to continue their mission. They would like to spread the word and ask for your…

October 11, 2022

Yellow Ribbon Girls Need You to ‘Adopt a Soldier’

2021 was the biggest Christmas ever – 330 Extra Large care packages were created and shipped. Can 2022 be BIGGER? That is up to you. The Yellow Ribbon Girls are seeking your support to continue their nearly 20 year effort of sending a little bit of home overseas to our troops. “The same product availability/shortages that affects us here in the states is magnified for the troops,” said Bonnie Phillipi, one of the founders of the Yellow Ribbon Girls. “They are living in temperatures up to 120 degrees, and many USOs are still operating on limited schedules. Our deployed troops…

September 24, 2020

Yellow Ribbon Girls Need Your Help: Adopt A Soldier

40,000 boxes. That’s how many shipments have been sent by locally organized Yellow Ribbon Girls. Yellow Ribbon Girls is made up of hundreds of volunteers that work tirelessly all year round to provide our troops with the comforts, treats, and reminders of home. This year, they need your help more than ever. Because of Coronavirus restrictions, nearly all of the group’s fundraisers have been canceled or postponed. The group sent 300 Christmas Care Packages last year. Their hope this year is to send between 150 and 200 packages. Each package contains Christmas decorations, holiday treats, basic supplies and gifts. In…

September 8, 2020

Yellow Ribbon Girls Looking For Christmas Campaign Support

The Yellow Ribbon Girls is looking for your support to provide Christmas treasures and supplies to deployed troops this upcoming holiday season. The campaign, named “Please Help Save Christmas For Our Deployed Troops!”, aims to ship between 150 and 200 Christmas packages full of decorations, holiday treats, basic supplies and gifts. The postage on last year’s 300 X-Large Christmas care packages was $14,000.00. Sadly, in 2020 almost all of the fundraising opportunities have been postponed or canceled. As hard as 2020 as been on all of us at home, the Yellow Ribbon Girls remind us that these same restrictions and…

February 1, 2019

Yellow Ribbon Girls To Host Spagehetti Dinner

The Yellow Ribbon Girls will be hosting a spaghetti dinner as a fundraiser to help with the monthly shipping costs on the care packages they mail around the world to our deployed troops “Each month between 80- 90 care packages are shipped. Currently, we are shipping to 13 countries,” said Yellow Ribbon Representative, Bonnie Phillippi. The dinner will be held on Saturday, February 23 from 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. It will be hosted in the Monaca Sons of Italy building located at 1115 Pacific Avenue, Monaca, PA 15061. The menu includes pasta, salad, a roll with butter, as well as…

August 8, 2018

Yellow Ribbon Girls Carnival August 11

The Yellow Ribbon Girls, which are based out of Ellwood City, have a Carnival coming up on August 11 with proceeds to benefit the Yellow Ribbon Girls Care Package Postage Fund. The Yellow Ribbon Girls create and send monthly care packages to our troops deployed around the world. “We ship between 80- 90 packages each month,” Said Bonnie Phillippi, a founder of Ellwood City Yellow Ribbon Girls. “Our group depends on volunteers to donate their time to help sort and pack items. Groups and individuals to donate the supplies and treats requested by the troops and events are held to…