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News
Engineers deliver holiday cheer to disabled kids since 1988
December 17, 2008
By Patrick Bloodgood
Norfolk District Public Affairs
The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is delivering angelic gifts to 88 children at the Saint Mary's Home for Disabled Children in Virginia Beach Va., on Dec. 19, at 2 p.m.
The Norfolk District choral group, The Corpsaleers, are delivering the gifts and performing Christmas carols for the children, continuing a tradition that began in 1988.
The district’s Angel Tree program allows the employees of Norfolk District to give back to the community and ensure that the kids at Saint Mary’s receive gifts this holiday season.
The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is an Army command that employees about 400 people throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. The district is responsible for overseeing and building military construction projects on eight military installations, and constructing civil works projects in four river watersheds and coastal basins of Virginia, as well as overseeing the protection and mitigation of wetlands throughout the entire commonwealth.