VACAVILLE The Vacaville Veterans Memorial Building is open to receive food and cash donations for the upcoming Christmas Eve dinner.
Turkeys are not needed. The freezers are full. Cash donations offer the greatest flexibility to purchase what is needed, event organizers said.
Lynn Jewell, who help
VACAVILLE The Vacaville Veterans Memorial Building is open to receive food and cash donations for the upcoming Christmas Eve dinner.
Turkeys are not needed. The freezers are full. Cash donations offer the greatest flexibility to purchase what is needed, event organizers said.
Lynn Jewell, who help
VACAVILLE The Vacaville Veterans Memorial Building will open starting Monday to receive food and cash donations for the upcoming Christmas dinner.
Lynn Jewell, who helps organized the dinner event, said for the first time the group will stop taking orders for meals Dec. 23, largely due to the logi
VACAVILLE It is not just about getting a hot Thanksgiving meal for many of the more than 800 individuals who received just that Thursday from the Vacaville Veterans.
“Some of them tell us their stories,” said Olivia Granada, 11, who along with her friend, Delaney Dion, 11, was helping
Vacaville cemetery site of Memorial Day remembrance
The ceremony will start at 11 a.m. The keynote speaker will be veterans advocate Kelli Germeraad.
“As a military wife, daughter and mother, Mrs. Germeraad felt called to duty over 30 years ago in support of those who serve in our armed forces and who often pay the ultimate price for our freedom,” Jeff Jewell, event chairman, said in a statement released by the Vacaville veterans group.
“From working with members of Congress for changes to Agent Orange policies to spearheading the successful effort to bring the Fairfield VA Outpatient Clinic to Travis (Air Force Base), Kelli has been tireless in her efforts to better the lives of veterans,” Jewell said in the statement. “Mrs. Germeraad has taken an active leadership role in numerous local organizations including 20 years as the American Legion Auxiliary Department of California deputy to the Fairfield VA (Outpatient Clinic)/David Grant (U.S. Air Force) Medical Center/Fi