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Bob
Military Appreciation Mondays Supports Yellow Ribbon fund.
-‐ Come join us at The Old Brogue in Great Falls on Monday January 30th for this month’s MAM event to help raise funds and awareness for the Yellow Ribbon Fund. All you have to do is show up and eat. Bob Nelson and his cosponsors will each donate a 10 percent match of whatever you spend on dinner. In November, 220% of the receipts were donated to the group Stop Soldier Suicide.
About the Yellow Ribbon Fund.
–The Yellow Ribbon Fund was created in 2005 to assist our injured service members and their families while they recuperate at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Their mission began when the father of an injured Marine introduced two of our volunteers to staff at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval and they told us what needs were not met by other donors.
–In five years, contributions made through the Yellow Ribbon Fund have provided the following for injured service members and their families: over 1,100 free rental cars spanning 49,000 free rental car days; over 16,000 free taxi rides; over 7,300 free hotel room nights; and 46 families have had use of YRF’s four apartments for almost 6,000 nights; and hundreds of free tickets to sporting games, concerts and plays, and hundreds of lunches, dinners, golf games, duck and goose hunts, fishing trips, and other activities.
Be sure to make reservations for either the 5:30 or 7:30 seating by calling:
The Old Brogue at (703) 759-‐3309 760C Walker Rd., Great Falls VA
Please join us and help honor and support those who have given so much for our country.
How Can I help donate?
How can I become a co-‐sponsor?
Co-‐Sponsors generally have been matching 10% of all receipts for the evening. All sponsors are recognized during the event. Call or email Bob if you are interested in becoming a sponsor for this month’s event.
Co-Sponsors For Last MAM Event:
Steven’s Family Bob George Kaihara Family Redmond Family Black Family Randy Phillips Mike Mannix Mary Ann Martel Grossman Family Bob Nelson Family Neal and Juja Sylvestre Scott and Dave LaMorte Dawson Richardson Family
Business Sponsors
The Old Brogue Blackbird Technologies G Stephen Delaney – State Farm Insurance Double Eagle Title Taylor Algyer – First Savings Mortgage James Gaudiosi – First Heritage Mortgage
This week’s Military Appreciation Monday event was our biggest success to date. We had a total of 140 people participate and will have raised slightly more than $12,500 once all the co-sponsor checks roll in. The dinner was held in support of a recently formed group called: Stop Soldier Suicide. This group was co-founded by Langley High School graduate, Nick Black. Please read the recent Connection Newspapers article pertaining the the dinner and Nick’s great service to our country by clicking on: Community Raises Funds for Veterans.
Cosponsors for the evening were:
Bob George
Black Family
Randy Phillips
Stevens Family
Kaihara Family
Redmond Family
Maryann Martell
Grossman Family
Bob Nelson Family
Neil and Juja Sylvestre
Scott and Dave LaMorte
Dawson Richardson Family
Old Brogue
Double Eagle Title
Blackbird Technologies
Taylor Allgyer – First Savings Mortgage
James Gaudiosi – First Heritage Mortgage
Military Appreciation Mondays
Supports
Operation One Voice
America’s Special Forces are some of the finest in our military. Their work is highly classified and, due to the inherent risks in their duties, they suffer casualty rates more than 4 times higher than those of the conventional forces outside of Iraq. In many cases, these casualties involve young people who are beginning their careers. These brave soldiers leave behind families who often have no resources to provide a surviving child with a college education. Operation One Voice strives to relieve military families of such a burden.
Please join us on September 26th for this month’s Military Appreciation Mondays dinner, where we will be hosting the the group “Operation One Voice”. The organization was established by Duluth, Georgia police and firefighters to provide support to the families and children of injured and fallen Special Forces men and women. You can click on the link Operation One Voice to learn how this group supports the families of the injured and the fallen.
Please be sure to make a reservation sooner rather than later with the Old Brogue. As those who attended last month’s dinner found, due to overflow we had about 15 people ended up sitting on the back porch. Just call (703) 759-3309 and let them know if you would like to attend the 5:30 or the 7:30 seating.
For those of you unfamiliar with how MAM works, you simply come out and enjoy a great dinner at the Old Brogue in Great Falls. My co-sponsors and I will each make a 10% match of your dinner tab. For last month’s dinner in support of the Navy SEAL Foundation we had a total of 22 co-sponsors step forward, resulting in a match of 220 percent. Please let us know if you might be willing to step forward and volunteer to be a co-sponsor for this month.
We will also have door prize drawings as always, and we certainly welcome any items you might like to donate for the drawing.
I can assure you that this evening and the money we are able to raise will mean a great deal to the Special Forces families. We would love to see a room full of faces who recognize the sacrifices our nation’s TRUE HEROES are asked to make each and every day. Please come join us in sending the message that we truly care.
Of course feel free to drop me an e-mail or give a call if you can’t make it out for dinner, but would like to make a donation.
We hope to see you all on the 26th!
Last month’s Co-Sponsors were:
Pat Martin
Cox Family
David Lesser
Kaihara Family
Tim Heil Family
Grossman Family
Bob Nelson Family
Peter Engle Family
Jim Glerum Family
Bert Calland Family
Karl Pierson Family
Larry Nelson Family
Neil and Juja Sylvestre
Greg and Jeff Hanscom
Doug and Jane Hanscom
Scott and David LaMorte
Dawson Richardson Family
The Old Brogue
Double Eagle Title
Taylor Allgyer – First Savings Mortgage
James Gaudiosi – First Heritage Mortgage
Jim Black – Paragon Communications Solutions
Nancy and I would like to thank everyone who came out in support of the Military Appreciation Mondays’ dinner for the Navy SEAL Foundation. This was our best attended event to date with 132 of you joining us for dinner. A best total amount was raised as well. Through your support and contributions, we will be sending somewhere between $6,000 – $6,500 to the foundation. I particularly want to thank those of you who signed on as co-sponsors for this dinner.
Many of you had an opportunity to meet Will Thomas. If not, he did a fundraiser over Labor Day weekend in support of the SEAL Foundation. Will is a twelve year old in Mclean who decided to shoot baskets as a special way to raise money for the SEAL Foundation. He had an amazing response, for for people to pledge one penny per basket. It seems that will exceeded his goal of shooting 17,000 baskets. If anyone is interested in showing your support to the Navy SEAL Foundation please contact Will or myself.
We look forward to seeing you this month on September 26th.
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For the past 2+ years, we have been hearing that housing starts are down. In the shallow way in which our media reports things, this has been presented as something less than desirable. Although not an economist, for the same 2+ years, I have been saying that this is actually a very good thing for the long term health of both our housing market and the U.S. economy in general. Builders and investors got carried away with home construction during 2004 and 2005. They ended up putting way to much inventory into the market place than was needed. We are just now entering into a period where there is beginning to be housing shortages (in certain markets). This in turn has caused rents to increase. This is very much the case in parts of Fairfax and Arlington Counties.
The June 20th issue of the Economist contains an article entitled: “Will housing save America’s economy?” that is discussing the fact that there is a large pent up demand for new housing. To read the full Article, click on the link: Economist Article. Hope you find this of interest.
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