2022 Veterans Holiday Gathering

Veterans Holiday Gathering. We were finally able to bring this event back in house and it was very well attended. We served up a delicious chicken parmesan meal which was met with great fan fare and many ‘thanks to the chef’ by over 170 veterans.

We were especially grateful to be able to honor two WWII veterans, ages 100 and 98, for their service. We also enjoyed some amazing and moving stories from Thad Hasbrouck about his service in the marines. There was great camaraderie amongst all. In addition to the warm meal, we provided all veterans attending package of winter clothing and a $25 Stop & Shop gift card.

Thanks to all of the Johnson & Brunetti and Elks volunteers that helped make this a great success.

Thanks to the kitchen crew including Kory Marvasti, Chris Terry, Phil Stender, Randy Dumond, Pete Nelson and Chris Malone, the Serving team of Johnson& Brunetti with Cindy Kretzmer and an amazing team of 11, and the gift distribution and clean-up team of Linda Damon, Cheryl Dean, Andy Dean, Dan Bober, John Sylvester, Sue Maltz, Ted Clifford, Gerry Gallo, Kathy Gallo, Brenda Williams, Lynn Sottile, Butch Auden, Donna Auden, Holly Jacobs and Tom Waldo.

Thanks to the Emblem Club for providing the dessert, 3 delicious cakes. And a special thanks to all of the sponsors of this event.

We also acknowledge and thank Stephen Werkhoven for the donation of knitted caps for the veterans.