Napa Rotary Club Leads Charge for Veterans of Recent Conflicts

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Providing tremendous support to Tides' Pathway Home, a treatment/counseling program for Iraq, Afghanistan veterans


From the St. Helena Star

By Kevin Courtney, for The Star

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Gary Rose sells houses. Steve Orndorf manages tenant rentals at Napa Pipe, the industrial site being eyed as a master-planned residential area.

Those are their day jobs. The activity that touches their hearts most deeply is the Pathway Home, a treatment and counseling program for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville.

As leaders of the Rotary Club of Napa, Rose and Orndorf have spearheaded three years of community support for the emotionally and physically injured vets. Ski trips in the Sierra, weekly games at Napa Bowl, Super Bowl parties, summer barbecues and gift baskets at Thanksgiving and Christmas are among the Rotary-sponsored activities for the men who are by far the youngest members of the Veterans Home of California, home to about 1,000 elderly veterans of earlier military clashes.


> Click here to read the full article on the St. Helena Star website. 

For more information on Tides project The Pathway Home, see www.thepathwayhome.org.

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