{"id":20009,"date":"2021-11-16T02:20:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T02:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=20009"},"modified":"2021-11-16T02:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T02:20:49","slug":"boca-raton-airport-authority-contributes-7000-to-vets-helping-heroes-nonprofit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/boca-raton-airport-authority-contributes-7000-to-vets-helping-heroes-nonprofit\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Boca Raton Airport Authority Contributes $7,000 to Vets Helping Heroes nonprofit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On November 6, 2021, the Boca Raton Airport Authority presented\na $7,000 contribution to Vets Helping Heroes, a charitable organization whose\nmission is to provide financial support for service dogs to active-duty\nmilitary and retired veterans recovering from physical and psychological\nchallenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The on-field presentation was made at the Florida Atlantic\nUniversity Owls vs. the Marshall Thundering Herd football game. This monetary\ncontribution will be used to help train future service dogs, given to retired\nveterans and active-duty military, at no cost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pictured are Boca Raton Airport representatives Clara Bennett, Executive Director, Jim Nau, Boca Raton Airport Authority Board Member, Bob Tucker, Boca Raton Airport Authority Board Member. Vets Helping Heroes representatives are, Mel Pollack, President and Boca Raton Airport Authority Board Member, Lisa Fendrich, Executive Director, Don Werner, Chairman of the Board w\/Service Dog Teddy, Bob Engelman, Secretary\/Treasurer w\/Service Dog Latte, Alan Feinberg, Ambassador w\/Service Dog Lexi, U.S. Marine Purple Heart Recipient Keith Shampaner w\/Service Dog Goose, EJ Kunnman, Ambassador w\/Service Dog Jackie, and Laura Malone, Marketing Director. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are honored to provide Vets Helping Heroes with this\ndonation as a way to honor those who served and help carry out their mission.\u201d\nsaid the Boca Raton Airport Authority Executive Director Clara Bennett. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vets Helping Heroes was founded in 2007 by Irwin Stovroff, a\nhighly decorated WWII veteran and liberated-POW who spent 13 months in Nazi\n\u201cStalag Luft I\u201d Prisoner-of-War camp after being shot down on his 35th combat\nmission as a Bombardier with the 44th Bomb Group. Despite having his own PTSD and\nother personal challenges, Mr. Stovroff was determined to pay it forward and\nfounded the non-profit charity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vets Helping Heroes is a 501(c)3 charitable organization\nwhose mission is to provide financial support for service dogs trained by\ncertified professionals for veterans who have served honorably, and active-duty\nmilitary personnel injured during service in the U.S. Armed Forces. To date\nVets Helping Heroes has given over 600 service dogs to our nation\u2019s veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Boca Raton Airport Authority proudly presented a $7,000\ncontribution to Vets Helping Heroes, a charitable organization whose mission is\nto provide financial support for service dogs to active-duty military and\nretired veterans recovering from physical and psychological challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To date, Vets Helping Heroes has given over 600 service dogs\nto our nation\u2019s veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 6, 2021, the Boca Raton Airport Authority presented a $7,000 contribution to Vets Helping Heroes, a charitable organization whose mission is to provide financial support for service dogs to active-duty military and retired veterans recovering from physical and psychological challenges. The on-field presentation was made at the Florida Atlantic University Owls vs. the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0692-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20012,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20009\/revisions\/20012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}