The Andrew Budraitis Foundation, for the second year running, is offering two, special, $7500 scholarships — one for a military veteran exclusively. Applications must be in by April 30, 2023. The ground rules for the military veteran applicant are: The military veteran will attend a two or four-year post-secondary institution Read more…
See the proclamation below. Good on our new governor, but paragraph 5, in particular, does not even begin to tell the true story of what the Vietnam War era veterans have accomplished. That generation of servicemembers has done far more than just celebrate and honor others. It has acted in Read more…
From the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs: ALERT REGARDING HARRIS JEWELRY Harris Jewelry was well-known in military towns due to salespersons attracting servicemembers with teddy bears dressed in military uniforms, and also for sale of items like the Mom’s Medal of Honor. Due to a court settlement Read more…
Presented by Brian Sabo, Program Director for the Hope Center to the council at its 15 February 2023 meeting, Hope Center is one of three recovery centers operated by Treatment Trends, Inc. resulting from a Northampton County Department of Human Services effort to better address the substance abuse and mental Read more…
It is still tough to figure the complete score concerning Camp Lejeune tort claims raised by the “Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022” provision (Section 804 of PL 117-168) in the Honor Our PACT past last August — especially the puzzle of how the VA will calculate a successful filing’s Read more…
Presented by Diane Elliott, Founder and Executive Director for Catalyst4, to the council at its 18 January 2023 meeting, this new nonprofit is striving to help the general community, especially those who have had hard luck, obtain employment training and stable housing while providing additional, needed wraparound services. In so Read more…
Any Veterans in Suicidal Crisis Can Go to Any Health Care Facility for Free Emergency Healthcare Taking a radically new approach to preventing suicide among veterans, starting January 17, any “veterans in acute suicidal crisis will be able to go to any VA or non-VA health care facility for emergency Read more…
We Need You! This is the last call for those veterans who have the ability and gumption to go out on a cold night and help with the Lehigh Valley’s 2023 Point in Time (PIT) Count, the single most important data gathering tool for helping to assess and allot homelessness Read more…
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