Jane Rivers, center, along with other members of Girl Scout Troop 30601, were thanked Tuesday after delivering 52 boxes of cookies to the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington. The girls convinced customers to donate the cookies to the vets home, where they have forged a connection with residents in recent months
3/21/2012
Album ID: 1436709
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Vets Home Christmas Gifts
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Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6471 of Manchester sort through an estimated 700 gifts delivered to residents of the Vermont Veterans Home on Tuesday. Each of the home's 158 residents received pajamas, sweatpants, toiletries and similar items.
12/20/2011
Album ID: 1382751
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Vets Home tree
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The Vermont Veterans Home lit its Christmas tree amid a downpour Wednesday. Community members, National Guardsmen, staff and residents attended the ceremony. Members of the Mount Anthony Union High School chorus sang carols.
12/8/2011
Album ID: 1375928
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Remembering Pearl Harbor
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On the eve of the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, residents of the Vermont Veterans Home recalled living through World War II.
12/6/2011
Album ID: 1374604
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Vets Home Tree
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Volunteers erect a donated Christmas tree Friday at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington. The tree will be lit Dec. 7.
11/25/2011
Album ID: 1368168
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Sweet as a Daisy
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Korean War veteran Vincent Rossi embraces one of several Girl Scouts who visited the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington on Tuesday. The Daisies Group, made up of 5 and 6 year olds from the Sacred Heart School Troop 30601, thanked the veterans for their service and sang them songs. “This is so beautiful,” Rossi said.
11/15/2011
Album ID: 1362702
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Purple Heart
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Paul Wilhelm, 63, a resident of the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, holds a Purple Heart that he earned after a firefight in An Hoa, South Vietnam, in 1969. The original medal was lost at some point and the home’s staff successfully petitioned for a new one to be presented recently to the former lance corporal. “It completes my life as it is right now,” Wilhelm, a native of Troy, N.Y., said Tuesday.
11/23/2010
Album ID: 1122780
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Vets Home Parade
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Residents and staff of the Vermont Veterans Home staged a Halloween parade through the halls of the nursing facility Tuesday. The parade was organized by Matthew Perry of the Vermont Arts Exchange.
10/26/2010
Album ID: 1104386
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Arizona bound
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Vermont Veterans Home administrator Colleen Rundell chats with residents Thursday in Bennington. Rundell is leaving to head the Arizona Veterans Home in Phoenix. She was presented with a plaque by John Miner, head of the local chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America.
7/15/2010
Album ID: 1041405
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Rep. Welch meets with vets
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Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., addresses veterans during a town hall meeting Friday in Bennington.
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