Subject: Fw: DAV - NH Donates to NH Veterans Home
From: "Bette Owens" <[email-masked]>
To: "davnhadj" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:08:20 -0500

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jackie Bonafide 
To: [email-masked] 
Cc: Conway, Barry 
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 3:53 PM
Subject: DAV - NH Donates to NH Veterans Home

Dear Bud,

I sent this press release out today to the Union Leader, Exeter News-Letter, Portsmouth Herald, Hampton Union, Rockingham News, Concord Monitor, Foster's Daily Democrat, Derry News, Conway Daily Sun, Granite State News, Nashua Telegraph, Mountain Ear, Laconia Daily Sun, Keene Sentinel, Winnisquam Echo, Laconia Citizen, Weirs Times, and Senior Beacon. 

Many thanks to all the DAV Members for this very generous gift!

Jackie

New Hampshire Veterans Home                                          NEWS RELEASE

139 Winter Street                                                                   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tilton, NH 03276                                                                   November 12, 2007

Contact: Jackie Bonafide, Program Information Officer

Phone: (603) 527-4400

PHOTO: (left to right) Lawrence Johnson, Department Commander of the Disabled American Veterans - NH, Inc., and a member of the New Hampshire Veterans Home (NHVH) Board of Managers, presents Barry Conway, NHVH Commandant (seated), with a check for $16,000.00 which will be used to help the Veterans Home purchase a paratransit van. Donald R. Caron, Chairman of the NHVH Board of Managers and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Junious "Bud" Owens, DAV Member and Secretary of the NHVH Board of Managers, look on.  

SUBJECT: Disabled American Veterans - NH, Inc. Donate Funds for Wheelchair Van at NH Veterans Home

TILTON, NH - More wheelchair-bound residents of the New Hampshire Veterans Home (NHVH) will be able to get to medical appointments or go on special shopping trips  thanks to the generosity of members of the Disabled American Veterans NH (DAV). 

At Veterans Day ceremonies held at NHVH, Barry E. Conway, Commandant, accepted a $16,000.00 check from Lawrence Johnson, the Disabled American Veterans - NH, Inc.  Department Commander. Funds from earlier donations will be matched with the DAV gift to purchase a van which is ADA compliant, has a 60" raised lift door, and can seat seven ambulatory residents or two wheelchair securement positions and three ambulatory passengers. 

Commandant Conway was delighted with the donation. He said, "We have three other larger wheelchair vans but we've needed something smaller-and still wheelchair accessible-for a long time. Quite often we need to take one or two residents to doctors' appointments and we don't need a large vehicle. With the new van we'll be able to make our trips more cost effective by saving gas and using the bigger vans for more passengers. We really appreciate the DAV's contribution as well as many donations from our other supporters."

The New Hampshire Veterans Home was established in Tilton in 1890 as the Soldier's Home for Civil War Veterans.  One of just four New Hampshire nursing homes to win the 2007 Quality of Life Award from the NH Department of Health & Human Services, the modern facility is home to over 200 men and women who have served their country and fellow New Hampshire citizens.  The mission of NHVH is to provide high quality, professional long-term care services to the Granite State's elderly and disabled veterans.  NHVH is the only long-term care facility in the Granite State that is dedicated exclusively to veterans.

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Jackie E. Bonafide

Program Information Officer

NH Veterans Home

139 Winter Street

Tilton, NH 03276

(603) 527-4847

www.nh.gov/veterans