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Veterans are helping veterans.
For the fourth consecutive year, area veterans are offering a free resource fair on April 30, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Tacoma Dome, 2727 East D St.
It is open to past and present U.S. military personnel and their families.
Many organizations, agencies and nonprofits will be there to provide resource help for veterans and their families, and in a variety of ways: VA benefits; legal and community services; homeless services; educational benefits; medical screenings and dental resources; jobs, apprenticeship, training and vocational opportunities; housing and other transition and reintegration services.
This “everything fair” has a single mission: to help veterans make direct connections to and get information about veteran-specific programs and resources.
“What makes this fair important is that it is a community driven effort,” said Tito Alfredo Medina, a Navy veteran and one of the event organizers. “If we as individuals did not make it a priority to invest our time and energy in this event, it would have been years till an agency or organization found the desire to aid in the large-scale assistance of our veterans community here in the Puget Sound.”
For more information, visit theveteransresourcefair.us or www.facebook.com.
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