LOVELAND — Miss Loveland Valentine Mary Askham smiled Thursday morning as she stamped the first two valentines with the official Loveland cachet. They were for a 13-year-old Georgia girl and the child’s grandparents, postmarked Feb. 2 — 20 days before the date the girl will be cancer-free for five years. Askham then stamped another card, then four for two of her aunts and her two sets of grandparents to kick off the city’s annual remailing program.
“It’s great, especially to have it prefaced with stories knowing the stamp on the valentine makes it that much more special,” she said.
In its 66th year, the remailing program calls on volunteers to hand-stamp a locally designed cupid shooting hearts over a four-line cachet verse. The valentines are remailed from Loveland with the special postmark to all 50 states and all over the world.
