NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS VETERANS ASSOCIATION FREEPORT CHAPTER
Working Towards a Brighter Future
At Northwestern Illinois Veterans Association Freeport Chapter shall lend its support to all United States Armed Forces Veterans and those currently serving. Remembrance to it's fallen Veterans with assistance and promotion of acceptable memorials, participate in community activities i.e. Memorial Day, Independence Day, Veterans' Day, or similar events, educate youth through awareness of contributions and sacrifices of all Veterans to ensure the freedoms, maintaining the support of the POW-MIA issue through education of fellow Veterans and the public, encouraging no-cost media promotion, air and printed, to further Veterans issues through discussion and display of respective issues and insignia at public functions.
ABOUT
Northwestern Illinois Veterans Association Freeport Chapter
is active in local and remote community activities and organizations, by hosting, participating or providing support to further the Allied Veterans Council, American Cancer Society, Aquin boosters, Arthritis Foundation, Cruise Nite Car Show, Freeport Downtown Development Foundation's “Music On Chicago”, Bethany Church UCC, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America, DARE program, DCFS Kids Program, Malcolm Eaton Enterprises, Fire Safety Council for Kids, Police Benevolent Association, Silvercreek Museum, Stephenson County Antique Engine Club Show, Stephenson County Fair, Stephenson County Visitors Bureau, Veteran's Homeless Committee of Chicago, VFW, and the Veteran's Free Van Transportation from Freeport to Madison VA, Stephenson Count Veteran Assistance Commission, Freeport Downtown Businessmen's Association, Freeport Chamber of Commerce, and the All Veterans Memorial Park of Stephenson County.
We have our Jerry L. Pool Memorial Scholarship fun. Our Scholarship program has successfully educated the Veterans' siblings in our county for 23 years.
We help out the Stephenson County Antique Engine Club, Winneshiek Theater, Highland YMCA, and the Amvets. We support the “Relay for Life” cancer survivors and the American Legion. We organize and host the Memorial Day Parade and the Courthouse Ceremony. We assist Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens with their Veterans' Memorial Flag retirement program each Memorial Day. We have brought the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) to Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens on September 6-10th, 2001. Our Chapter color guard will participate in six large parades this summer and fall.
We have raised monies for our Stephenson County All Veterans Memorial Park.
EDUCATION
One Step at a Time
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together"
Vincent van Gogh
CONTACT NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS VETERANS ASSOCIATION FREEPORT CHAPTER
Freeport, IL 61032, USA
