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Flashback Friday: Putting together care packages for the troops

This week's trip down memory lane brings us back to January 2008 when a Colona group was busy shipping care packages overseas.

COLONA, Ill. — It was a much snowier, colder winter during our trip down memory lane this week! 

This Flashback Friday takes us back 15 years to January of 2008. Former News 8 reporter Courtney Brennan brought us out to Colona, IL to catch up with a group making care packages for troops overseas. 

Check out the above video for the full story. And tune into The Current on News 8 every Friday for another weekly edition of our throwback series. 

Tune into The Current from 4 to 5 p.m. on weekdays to catch even more live interviews impacting you, your family and your hometown as well as all of the biggest headlines of the day. 

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