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TIGNISH, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND--(Marketwire - Aug. 15, 2008) - Families from the Tignish community will take part in a ceremony to dedicate commemorative plaques and newly planted trees with Government of Canada support. The Honourable Greg Thompson, Minister of Veterans Affairs, announced today a contribution to The Royal Canadian Legion Branch #6 (Tignish). Funding of up to $1,700, provided through Veterans Affairs Canada's Community Engagement Partnership Fund, will support a commemorative ceremony at the Tignish Legion. On August 16, 2008, military families will dedicate 22 trees recently planted around the perimeter of the Legion property to Local Veterans and one tree to a serving Canadian Forces member. The Legion will also dedicate one tree to all Local Veterans. During the ceremony, a young person from each family will present a tribute to the Veteran or Canadian Forces member his or her family is honouring. ... Source: www.9news.com --- 26 days ago
LOVELAND - Several Local Veterans groups gathered Saturday to help one of their own. ...
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On behalf of the Honourable Greg Thompson, Minister of Veterans Affairs, Pierre Lemieux, Member of Parliament for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, presented Mr. Eugene Guindon with the Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation during a ceremony at Mr. Guindon's home. "Mr. Guindon served his country; he has served his community; he has served his comrades- and with his service he has honoured us all," said Minister Thompson. "It is a pleasure to honour him on behalf of all Canadians." Mr. Guindon is a Veteran of the Korean War, and was selected as a recipient of the Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation for his service to the... ... Source: koaa.com --- 2 days ago
As John McCain takes to the stage to accept the Republican nomination, Local Obama supporters take to the phones. At the Obama campaign's Colorado Springs office, dozens of Veterans called other Veterans to convince them that John McCain is not their candidate. ... Source: www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com --- 26 days ago
MANSFIELD — World War II veteran Harold "Bud" Masters had trouble picking out just one highlight from a recent trip to Washington as part of the Honor Flight program. ... Source: www.fdlreporter.com --- 24 days ago
The Wisconsin contingent of The Chosin Few will return in August of 2009 to Fond du Lacs Lakeside Park for its annual picnic and reunion of men who fought in one of the most brutal battles of the Korean War. ...
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The House is set to vote on Veterans’ Affairs and Military Construction Appropriations today. As Jodi Breisler reports, this could mean millions for facilities in the DC area... ...
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Local facilities ready to assist Veterans affected by GustavMontgomery Advertiser - 8 hours agoCentral Alabama Veterans Healthcare System Medical Centers in Montgomery and Tuskegee are ready to assist Veterans and their families who have been displaced by Hurricane Gustav.VA clinics in Natchez 15 Rank(s) ... Source: www.kxii.com --- 32 days ago
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There's a national effort to provide trips for World War II Vets to their memorial in Washington D.C. Locally volunteers with Honor Flights collected donations at this weekend's Healing Fields. ... Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov --- 4 days ago
Related Articles Timeliness Across the Continuum of Care in Veterans with Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2008 Sep;3(9):951-957 Authors: Powell AA, Schultz EM, Ordin DL, Enderle MA, Graham BA, Partin MR, Gould MK INTRODUCTION:: By providing timely care at all steps along the continuum of lung cancer care, providers may be able to limit disease progression before treatment and possibly improve clinical outcomes. This study examines the timeliness of key events in the process of care between initial radiograph and first treatment. METHODS:: Dates of key events were extracted from the medical records of 2463 Veterans receiving lung cancer care at 133 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities. After reviewing their site's abstraction results, facility leaders completed a survey on their perceptions of their Local processes of lung cancer care. RESULTS:: Median time from first radiography to first treatment was 71 days. The longest intermediate time interval examined was between first treatment referral and first treatment (median = 12 days). Time from first to last diagnostic test was most variable (interquartile range = 0-27 days). We found a significant trend indicating that the time interval from first radiograph to treatment was shorter for patients with more advanced disease. This effect was also significant within six of the seven intermediate time intervals we examined. Survey responses indicated that the chart review process stim ... Source: www.marketwire.com --- 5 days ago
GRAND MANAN, NEW BRUNSWICK--(Marketwire - Sept. 1, 2008) - The Village of Grand Manan in New Brunswick will make essential improvements to Local infrastructure after receiving its first payments under the Canada-New Brunswick Agreement of the Transfer of Federal Gas Tax Revenues and the Provincial Gas Tax Transfer Top-up Fund. The Honourable Greg Thompson, Minister of Veterans Affairs, on behalf of the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, and the Honourable Rick Doucet, Minister of Fisheries, on behalf of the Honourable Carmel Robichaud, Minister of Local Government, made the announcement today. ... Source: blogs.news-journalonline.com --- 3 days ago
Suzanne Kosmas, Democratic candidate for Florida's 24th District in the U.S. House of Representatives , today announced the formation of ``Veterans for Kosmas,'' a group of more than 50 Local Veterans Her campaign provided a list of 51 Veterans who have signed up to support her campaign. ... Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 3 days ago
Local Veterans and their families now have another way to get access to information about benefits and services. Lincoln Veterans’ Services Officer (VSO) Priscilla Leach recently launched the Veterans’ Services Web page: www.lincolntown.org/depts/Veterans.htm . Hosted on the town Web site, the Veterans’ Services page includes a mission statement and contact information for Lincoln’s VSO, as well as links to other Web sites of interest to Veterans. “I was getting all this information, but I had no way to share it,” said Leach. “There are lots of benefits out there for Veterans that people just don’t know about. Hopefully, this will be a way that I can get more information about to people.” Leach, a veteran of the United States Coast Guard, said she herself was not aware that she was entitled to a certain benefit until she started received literature as the town’s VSO. Every city and town in Massachusetts has a VSO to advocate and offer support for Local Veterans and their dependents, providing information about state and federal military benefits. In larger communities, the VSO is a full-time, paid position, but in smaller towns like Lincoln, it is a volunteer job. Leach, who teaches eighth-grade science at Wellesley Middle School, volunteered for the position last fall, taking over for John Caswell, who had served in the role for seven years. “I thought, ‘What could be more worthwhile than doing something to help Veterans, especia ... Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 2 days ago
Normal 0 The first of the three questions on the November ballot will ask voters if they want to eliminate the 5.3 percent income tax. If that initiative passes, it could be costly, say area town officials. The ballot question would eliminate 40 percent of state tax revenue and almost $13 billion in revenues to the state,” said Geoff Beckwith, executive director at the Massachusetts Municipal Association, a non-profit, non-partisan association that provides advocacy, research and other services to cities and town. “It could not be implemented without widespread devastation of state budget accounts and would clearly have a giant negative impact on Local aid - schools, municipal aid, aid for maintenance of roads, and many other important areas,” he said. “The total amount of Local aid provided by the state each year is $7 billion, that includes school building assistance, Chapter 70 education aid, general Local aid, reimbursement for services for Veterans, reimbursement for programs that the state law requires and it goes on and on,” Beckwith added. “Cities and towns base their budget expectations that the $7 billion of Local aid will be there. If the state budget is cut by 40 percent and Local aid takes a similar cut, that would eliminate $2.8 billion in funding for cities and towns. Clearly the reliance on property tax would skyrocket and deepen harmful cuts to important Local services from schools to police and libraries to roadways. ... Find more results for Local Veterans on RSSMicro.com |
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Completing one’s obligations as an active duty member of the military is a difficult enough task. Moving on to the next chapter of life when one’s service contract comes to an end can sometimes be even tougher. According to Dan Farrell and Rocco DiSalle, two South Shore natives who’ve recently fulfilled their military requirements after a few years of service, the adjustment back into ‘civilian’ life has been challenging. “You kind of feel like you lose your family when you get out,” said DiSalle, 28, a Brockton native who completed a five-year stint in the Navy in February. “There’s not a lot of people who know how hard it is to re-acclimate when you come home.” Upon being honorably discharged from the Army after two years and five months last December, Farrell, 26, said he didn’t really know what to do with his life. In the military, people are put in positions to succeed, he said, and prior to leaving he was told there would be lots of opportunities available to him. “A lot of Veterans are misunderstood,” said Farrell, who graduated from Marshfield High School in 2001. “[People] think we’re a lot of brainless killing machines. A lot of civilians just don’t understand what Veterans go through.” Soon after getting out of the Army, Farrell said he was staying in a hotel, down on his luck and “self medicating.” Eventually, he learned about the Plymouth based Nathan Hale Foundation, and he gave the organization a call. That very da ...
Hundreds of patriotic Valleyites flocked to the South Waverly Fairgrounds Saturday afternoon for food, fun, and prizes at the Fourth Annual Valley Veterans Fundraiser. The party was a collaborative effort between several Local Veterans’ organizations: Athens American Legion Post No. 246, Sayre American Legion Post No. 283, Sayre VFW Post No. 1536, Elmira Vietnam Veterans of America Post No. 803, Elmira VFW Post No. 901, Waverly American Legion Post No. 492, Waverly VFW Post No. 8104, and Towanda American Legion Post No. 42. For $50 partygoers got unlimited food and beer for two, an afternoon of music courtesy of Local band The Spexxx, and a chance to win a grand prize of nearly $5,000. Waverly American Legion Commander Bob Owen explained that he helped to organize this fundraiser in its inaugural year. “We started this thing four years ago as a way to get all the Local clubs together on something instead of working against each other,” he said. Since then the party has grown every year, with over 600 tickets sold for 2008. “This is the biggest crowd we’ve had yet,” said Owen. Prior to the party the Waverly VFW made a donation to the South Waverly Volunteer Fire Department. Owen explained that the VFW ran a grill and concession stand at this year’s South Waverly Community Carnival as a VFW fundraiser and donated $800 to the fire department as a means of saying “thank you” for being allowed to participate. Members of many Local vet ...
East Tennessee conference focuses on service-disabled and veteran small business opportunities and assistance . “Support the troops!” has some meat behind it in Oak Ridge. “We’re here for the Veterans!” is the rally cry of East Tennessee’s Veterans business outreach programs. That is the consensus of three Clarksville citizens who, along with over 250 others, attended the all-day Oak Ridge Veterans Business Conference. Dr. James H. Cossingham, President, Gold Eagle Corp. and his associate, Turner McCullough Jr.- contributing writer for this publication, attended the conference at the invitation of Herstle Cross, CEO, Cornerstone Equipment, Supplies & Consulting. Cornerstone is an SBA-8A Native American company at the Oak Ridge National Nuclear Security Agency. Ms Felicia Johnson, newly named director of the Clarksville Small Business Development Center at Austin Peay State University also attended. She was seeking to establish contacts with her counterparts in East Tennessee and especially Oak Ridge, which could enhance opportunities for her future clients in Clarksville and Montgomery County. The conference was held at the Y-12 National Nuclear Security Agency Complex’s New Hope Center, 602 Scarboro Road, the new visitors and conference center at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Complex. The conference was hosted by the Y-12 National Security Complex and the University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services Procurement Technical Assistan ...