North Oakland, MI, Lodge members gave a large home-baked sheet cake to ten veterans, as well as approximately 20 other residents, living at the Poh Regional Medical Center.
Dakota County, MN, Lodge members visited the Hastings Veterans Home and treated more than 150 veterans to dinner. The lodge also donated more than $200 worth of fishing equipment to the home.
Rochester, MN, Lodge members staffed a booth at a local grocery store and raised $2,750 in donations for Southeast Minnesota Honor Flight, which provides WW II veterans with all-expenses-paid trips to Washington, DC, to see the National World War II Memorial and other monuments.
South Coast District, CA, lodge members waited at the San Diego International Airport to greet and assist 75 veterans attending the National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic in San Diego and their families. The National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic is an annual event that gives disabled veterans the opportunity to compete in water sports, track-and-field events, and cycling competitions. Pictured is veteran competitor Robert Cheseborough.
Braintree, MA, Lodge, with the help of members of a VFW ladies auxiliary, held its third annual Veterans Cookout and treated more than 50 veterans from the Massachusetts Soldiers Home–Chelsea and the New England Center
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Homeless Veterans to a barbecue lunch and musical entertainment at the lodge. Pictured are (front, from left) veteran Richard Garvey, Veterans Service Commit- tee Chairman Georgia Pratt, and volunteer Vicki Silva with (back, from left) lodge member Patricia McKeon, ER George Perkins, state Veterans Service Committee Chairman Charles Kay, and volunteer Kathleen Riley.
Arcadia Valley (Arcadia), MO, Lodge donated a hospitality station, consist- ing of a cabinet, a coffeemaker, and coffee, to the Farmington VA Commu- nity Based Outpatient Clinic.
Blue Springs, MO, Lodge donated $1,000 to the Wall that Heals, a traveling one-half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Lodge members also
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Orleans-Eastham, MA, Lodge members treated 22 veterans and their helpers from the Brockton VA medical facility to dinner at the lodge. Pictured enjoying a cup of New England clam chowder is veteran Paul Love.
laid a wreath at the wall during its visit to the town of Blue Springs to commemorate the sacrifices made by US veterans in Vietnam.
Greenview, MO, Lodge donated one- year subscriptions to the national USA Today and local Lake Sun Leader newspapers to the Lake of the Ozarks VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Osage Beach.
Lake of the Ozarks, MO, Lodge donated $400 to the West Central Missouri Veterans Assistance League to provide soft-serve ice cream to veterans living at the Missouri Veterans Home Warrensburg.
North Central District, NJ, lodge members visited the East Orange VA medical facility and treated almost 100 veterans to a picnic lunch, live
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