Veteran returning to Vietnam, again
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- February
- 26
Seems like Vietnam veteran and former Spring Valley police chief Howard Goldin can’t get enough of returning to Vietnam: two months after my father and I joined him and a group of veterans and Rotary Club members on their last humanitarian tour there, he’s getting ready to head back with more supplies.
Goldin, his wife Doris, and Stony Point Town Magistrate Bill Franks and his wife Margaret, are joining a two-week tour led by Seattle Rotarian Son Michael Pham’s Kids Without Borders Spring Humanitour on March 30. Scheduled activities include a stop in Dalat to check on the construction progress of The Rose School, a project largely funded by the Spring Valley Rotary Club’s Schools to End Poverty (STEP) program.
The school, pictured here in November, still needs about $30,000 to finish construction, said Ed Franks, Spring Valley Rotarian and president of Rockland’s Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 333.
Donations to The Rose School can be mailed to: Spring Valley Rotary, Vietnam School Project, Po Box 59, Spring Valley, NY 10977.
The Goldins are also packing the usual toiletries and medical supplies – toothbrushes, toothpaste, vitamins – and children’s clothing and Beanie Babies to give out at the orphanages and schools they visit on their trip. For more information about making contributions, leave a message for them at (845) 371-7605.
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on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 6:45 am by Nicole Neroulias. 
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