U.S.A. |
Army |
Navy |
Marines |
Air Force |
Coast Gd. |
P.O.W. |
Mission: Our mission is to provide relaxing mini retreats for our recovering service members, and our local elderly Veterans. The service members are encouraged to bring their families so that everyone can have a fun day together in a quiet country setting. Some of the service members do not have any local family and it is a way for the family to visit without the expenses of hotels and food. We cover the cost of the hotel, food and all activities. If they do not have any family that can visit, we encourage them to bring a friend. We schedule boat trips out to St. Clements Island; we take them out on kayaks/canoes, and of course we have the pool open all day. In between the water activities, we offer arts and crafts. Sometimes we get lucky enough to have a group come in with horses or dogs for demonstrations/shows. We bring the service members out twice in the summer and once at Christmas. For the local elderly Veterans; whether in a Nursing Home or a Caregiver Home, we bring them out for a day of fun. We do crafts, play games, win prizes, and eat. We take them to museums, on boat trips, to local parks, do a little fishing, cookouts and just have a fun day together. Our senior Vets are assigned to a "buddy" so that they are waited on and are given 1 on 1 attention. We bring the seniors out 6 or 7 times a year, one of them is Christmas. We file an application with Ft. Belvoir and Walter Reed Hospitals for our events. Once the legal team has approved our application, they will start signing service members up that wish to join us. We also reach out to the local VA Centers and Elizabeth Dole Hidden Heroes Foundation for service members that would benefit from our event. |
Connie Pennington
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