Students at the Amity Middle School Orange held its annual Stockings for Soldiers community outreach program in December, with students, staff and families of AMSO sending in various toiletry and snack items that were put into stockings and delivered on Dec. 22 to the VA Hospital in West Haven. Seventh grade teacher Janine Arents has helped run this drive every year since its beginning. Over 776 items were donated that went into over 25 stockings, and student wrote over 125 letters and cards to veterans, which were enough to include a letter or card of gratitude in every stocking. From left: AMSO students Eniola Taiwo, Azka Amir and Nava Ismail-Beigi. Photo by Janine Arents.