The SAR Community Outreach Committee this year raised more than $750 in local donations, and used another $750 from their annual budget to purchase a piano for the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital. The committee also sent a contigent of volunteers to the hospital on Dec. 12th to help prepare and distribute gift baskets for the 400 wounded warriors being treated at the facility. From left to right are: Sandy McCourtney (chair), Charles Gayre, Wendy McCann, Cindy Shoe and Hylda Fenton. The piano was purchased at a special discount price from Pritchard’s Music on Bee Ridge Road.
2009 SAR President Bill Geller took part in the Dec. 12th “Wreaths Across America” event at the Sarasota National Veterans Cemetery. SAR contributed $450 for the purchase of 30 wreaths placed on the graves of fallen veterans at the cemetery. More than 5,000 wreaths were placed at Arlington National Cemetery, and thousands more at the more than 360 veterans cemetery facilities across the nation to offer our thanks to those who have honorably and selflessly served our nation.
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Sarasota Realtor® Magazine
JANUARY 2010
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