The featured Veteran for the month of July is Larry Humphrey with his ’64 Mercury Comet Caliente. Larry is a Navy Veteran and served in Vietnam Veteran. This month’s calendar is sponsored by Paul Kuzma’s Grand Ole Garage. If you’d like to donate money to help feed Veterans in need in our area, text “feedavet” to 44321 today!
The featured Veteran for the month of June is Vietnam Veteran Mike Collins with his 1966 Corvette Stingray, 427, 4 speed. The sponsor for this month is Ponnie’s Boutique in Shawsville, VA.
Navy Veteran, Pat Patrick is the featured Veteran for the month of May in the VfV Hot Rod Calendar. He has a 1941 Ford F100 he calls “Spuds”. Spuds has a built 351 Cleveland with a 5 speed. Pat served from 1966-70 as an E-4. Coldwell Banker Realtors Bill Linkenhoker and Rob Jones are this month’s sponsors.
Vietnam Veteran, Butch Buford is the featured Veteran in the VfV Hot Rod Calendar for April. He has a 1939 Ford Convertible Coupe with a 351 Windsor and Tremec 5 speed transmission. Butch served in the Army (E5) from 1962-65 . Joel Humphreys with NextHome New River Valley is this month’s sponsor.
One day back in December, I was casually scrolling through Facebook like I often do during my breaks from studying for medical school. I came across a post that was shared by Vittles for Vets and it was talking about a local healthcare facility hosting an Angel Tree to provide gifts for local veterans in the Vittles program. After exploring Vittles for Vets’ Facebook page, I quickly realized they were a local non-profit so I immediately reached out to Bill McCann, the founder. As the newly assigned Vice President
I remember well, during the 35 years of running my construction business, taking risks was just a part of doing business whether it be building a house on speculation or purchasing a parcel of land to build upon, all in the hopes someone would purchase my product. As the risk taken affected only me I would approach with a measure of “bravado” somewhat throwing caution to the wind.
Today the Vittles for Vets charity presents a much different set of circumstances as my decisions affect over 100 veterans and
Music is a powerful and emotionally stirring medium as certain songs and music evoke a myriad of emotions generally based on past life experiences. For me the song “Over the Rainbow” performed by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole allows oneself to surrender the mind to a calming sense of total serenity created by happy lyrics combined with peaceful and joyful sounds of the ukulele. The same can be said of Ray Charles’ rendition of “What a Wonderful World.”
There are songs that make you want to kick off your shoes and dance,
Stealing a quote from one of my favorite Christmas movies, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, where Clark Griswold told “SNOT” the dog: “Now I know what Christmas means to me.” You see, this has been a very special Christmas for the Vittles for Vets charity, our volunteer’s elves, and to a great degree, our caring and generous community.
We decided to undertake a mission to ensure all children of veterans, enrolled in the Vittles food program aged 18 and under, would not be forgotten by Santa and would receive presents