For the last 7 years, we have collaborated with the VA Healthcare Center in Leeds, MA to provide work for veterans at the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop. The veterans in the program help us package our kits and other products. They do a great job for us, so we try to express our appreciation. We bring them lunch and gift bags which consist of little items from each of the staff at NECS – baked goods, socks, lottery tickets, etc. It’s a small gesture, but it gives us the opportunity to get to know them and to tell them in person how grateful we are for their service to our business and to our country.
Here are a few pictures from our trip to the VA on November 9:
Setting Up
Ricki (The Cheese Queen) carried the gift bags into the building
Mark brought in the pizzas
Getting Started
Kathy hugged the veterans
Jim Pruner gave a short speech
Mingling
Left to right: Kathy, Mark, Mary, April, Jim
Angie with Tom Haskell
Kathy and Justin Maynard
Ed O’Brien and Angie
Eating Pizza
We served pizza. That’s Mark Dunn in front.
Veterans in the Program
Larry Creswell
Mark Dunn
Ed Brown
Fran Vancour
Lynn Koontz
Ed O’Brien
VA Staff
Tom Haskell, Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist
Jim Pruner, Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist
Justin Maynard, Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist
Beth Graziadei, Program Manager
Lynn Dehneh, Transitional Work Coordinator
Rachel Harris, Payroll
Luis Gomez, Kitchen
Staff of NECS
Mark and Sarah
Kathy
Angie
April
Mary
The Whole Team
