The Club welcomed VFW Post 6393 (Yardley), Aamerican LEgion Post 317 (Yardley), the Guardians of the National Cemetery and the Jess Soby American Legion Post 148 (Langhorne) for their part in distribution the gift certificates to provide holiday meals for needy veterans and their families.
As in past years, those gift certificates were purcahsed with monies the Club raised from generous shoppers outside Shop-Rite and McCaffrey's supermarkets prior to Thanksgiving. This year alone, more than $2,100 was collected.
Irv Perlstein presented a Certificate of Apprecaition to Russ Davidon, Post Commander VFW Post 6393
Dick Newbert preesnted a Certificate of Apprecaition to Bob Craven, President of teh Guardians of the National Cemetery in Washington Crossing and Member of Americal Legion Post 317
Irv will be presenting a Certificate of Apprecation to Bob Osterhout, Post Commander of the Jesse Soby Americal Legion Post 148, who could not attend this morning's breakfast meeting.
Each Certificate of Appreciation read as follows (with repsective Veteraans Organization noted)
Bob relayed one story of a currently deployed veteran whose family was just scraping by. One of our Gift Certificates was given to them … where it made a huge impact on their Thanksgiving. Helping people in need … it's what we pride ourselves on doing!
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