By Suburban News on July 23, 2013 at 4:03 PM Thanks to the efforts of Rotary Club of Roselle – Roselle Park President Kevin Murphy, Operation Chillout, a New Jersey-based homeless veterans outreach program, will get a big boost in the form of a specially outfitted ambulance to reach out to homeless veterans. Murphy, a 23-year...
read more(Source: Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr.) – On Friday, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced that the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs will receive $665,055 in federal funding from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in partner with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to offer permanent...
read more“Being homeless hurts, OPERATION CHILLOUT helps” is the motto of an all-volunteer coalition founded in the year 2000 to help a band of homeless Viet Nam Era Veterans living under a railroad trestle in Northern New Jersey. Since it began OPERATION CHILLOUT has collected and delivered more a million dollars worth of survival supplies...
read moreThe largest portions of the Garden State’s vets live in South Jersey, particularly in the areas around the Fort Dix, McGuire, and Lakehurst military bases and in Cape May near the U.S. Coast Guard training facility. Almost a third of New Jersey veterans served in the Vietnam War era; about 15 percent, in the Korean War, World...
read moreThe Hunterdon County American Legion has organized a 5K run/walk to raise money for homeless veterans. Many of our soldiers who served to protect our freedoms currently find themselves facing economic hardships. The former Hagedorn facility in Glen Gardner has been converted to Veterans Haven North, a transitional home for our...
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Jersey City mayoral hopeful Jerry Walker wanted to give away free haircuts to the homeless and poor in Journal Square today, but the unusual campaign event turned into a minor headache when he had to shut it down prematurely. Turns out Walker, a former hoops star at St. Anthony High School, didn’t have a permit to host three...
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