Rockland’s “Nam Knights” fill food pantry
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Earlier in the summer I wrote about Westchester’s Vietnam Veterans of America chapter sponsoring a very successful food drive to help out the veterans food pantry at Montrose.
Fred Hillman, a member of the VVA in White Plains, also happens to be vice president of the “Nam Knights,‘’ a motorcycle club of veterans and police officers based in Tappan. Hillman brought the idea to the Knights and they did their own drive in Pearl River last week. The result was the delivery of 5,000 pounds of food and $1,000 to the pantry.
“I was overwhelmed,’’ said Duke Searles, director of the pantry. “It’s the biggest single donations we’ve ever had.’’
With his own shelves filled, Searles was able to bring some food up the to pantry at Castle Point.
Great job by vets on both side of the river!
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on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 2:44 pm by Rich Liebson. 
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