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Veterans Service Officer Report. October 2011 As usual, your VSO has been very busy as has our entire office. Here are some highlights: 1. Yea, thank you to our latest donors! We now have the Marine Corps uniform complete. It's been quite a while in the asking, but persistence paid off and we now have the complete Marine uniform. In addition we just rec'd a wonderful donation of the Class A Dress Uniform for the Coast Guard. So now our wall is complete. We have uniform from every branch of service and even some various eras. Thank you one and all. 2. We have a request: To finish our Honors Room we need a little electrician help. We can afford to purchase two sets of track lighting, but we cannot afford to install them. If you know of an electrician that can help, please let me know. 3. This last week on October 12th, we held a Veterans Summit. Present at the Summit were: Veterans Service Officers from a few counties and the Staff of Senator Al Franken's office. We had a nice attendance in the audience as well, and some of the Auxiliary ladies assisted us. The message that we meant to get to the Senator's office was well received and we are expecting some follow up from that soon. Starbucks of Moorhead donated all the refreshments for this event. Say hi to Nate, he has been a friend to the veteran. 4. I am attending one Beyond The Yellow Ribbon Steering meeting each month. We hope that we can create our community to be a great Yellow Ribbon community. 5. If you are a disabled veteran, or if you are a family of deployed serviceperson and would need to have your snow removed, I can put you in touch with a new program being piloted by NDSU Cadets. This snow-removal program will kick off this year as a pilot program. Therefore there will only be a about a half dozen openings. Call right away if you are interested. E-mail: Tom Figliuzzi
Veterans Service Officer Clay County
218-299-5041
veterans.services@co.clay.mn.us
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