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Local Charity on Giving Tuesday

12/1/2014

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Local Support Means Local Assistance

We would like to thank Gately Funeral Home, the Parish of the Incarnation, Whole Foods Market Melrose and Walmart in Saugus for their recent donations to our district Veteran Relief Funds. Thanks to their generosity, we are in a good position to provide food assistance, heating assistance and housing assistance to district veterans.

Gately Funeral Home held their annual Sangria Salute in November, raising $3000 for the second consecutive year. The great staff of the local business manned the bar at Absolutely Fabulous for an entire night, raffling items and serving Sangria to a generous crowd of supportive Melrosians.

The Parish of the Incarnation Church again chose the Melrose Veteran Relief Fund as a charitable focus for their congregation collection. This year marked their third straight donation to this important cause and their total contributions topped $3000 in November.

Whole Foods Market Melrose honored local heroes on Veterans Day by accepting donations for the Melrose Veteran Relief Fund. Total contributions from Melrose customers topped $600.

And adding to the effort was Walmart in Saugus, who generously donated $1000 to the Saugus Veterans Relief Fund to help VSO Andrew Biggio provide food assistance to Saugus veterans in need.

Personally, we will be donating to the Melrose Veterans Memory Project, a local organization dedicated to honoring and archiving veteran history here in Melrose. This local non-profit recently received approval from the state to be an official charity.

If you have any questions about veteran donations, please call our office. We know there are many choices and many questions when it comes to charitable giving.
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    Ryan McLane

    As the Director of Veteran Services for Melrose, Wakefield and Saugus, Ryan is charged with delivering more than $900,000 in local benefits and managing more than 2,500 veteran contacts annually. 

    This blog is dedicated to highlighting district programming and commenting on various veteran policies, news stories and information relevant to our veterans.

    All comments and editorial aspects of this blog are the sole opinions of the author.

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