Serving to These Who Serve Us

A couple of months again I informed you about Dine On Us, a comparatively new 501c3 group whose mission is to offer off base eating and leisure alternatives for our lively responsibility navy households who’re coping with financial hardships.  The aim is to present people who serve us an opportunity to get pleasure from an evening out at an area restaurant, boardwalk enjoyable, a gasoline card and even groceries.  Most wouldn’t have the means to get pleasure from a date night time or night time out with their household which was merely unacceptable to Navy veteran and founder Cliff Baker.

Dine On Us Founder/President Cliff Baker

Dine On Us Founder/President Cliff Baker

Preliminary fundraising efforts within the spring raised $60,000 in present playing cards and 100 care packages valued at $300 every had been delivered to Navy and Marines from Naval Weapon Station Earle and Pink Financial institution.  One other 100 of those packages can be delivered to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst later this month.  These packages included a $100 present card to Chef Mike’s ABG, a $50 present card to Bum Roger’s, Caffrey’s or Burger 25, a $50 On line casino Pier Reward Card for rides and extra, a $50 Wawa gasoline card, an umbrella and seaside chair for Funtown Pier and Kohr’s ice cream for the complete household.  Every taking part enterprise donated a present card of the identical worth for each bought.

Dine On Us Board Member Troy Swift fingers out $300 care package deal

Dine On Us Board Member Troy Swift fingers out $300 care package deal

What most of us seemingly don’t know is these lively responsibility navy households live on poverty-level revenue and rely on authorities help applications.  As well as many are from out of state and unfamiliar with the realm which makes this monetary plight much more difficult.

There are numerous extra households in want so Dine On Us has began a brand new spherical of fundraising to they’ll donate extra present card care packages for Christmas.  They need to present $300 packages for 370 households via two occasions arising.  On September 8th they are going to maintain an inaugural Movie star Golf Invitational at Blue Heron Pines that includes a number of former NFL stars and on October 2nd it’s Cliff and Chef Mike’s 4th Annual Chef Tasting hosted by Martell’s Tiki Bar in Level Nice Seaside.

For extra on these occasions and how one can assist go to www.dineonus.org.

LOOK: What 25 Historic Battlefields Look Like Right now

The next is an examination of what grew to become of the websites the place America waged its most necessary and infrequently most brutal campaigns of struggle. Utilizing quite a lot of sources, Stacker chosen 25 traditionally important battlefields in American historical past. For each, Stacker investigated what occurred there when the battles raged in addition to what grew to become of these hallowed grounds when the combating stopped.

These are the battlefields that outlined the USA navy’s journey from upstart Colonial rebels to an invincible international struggle machine.

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