Category Veterans Homes
Holiday Caroling in August? Barstow Home Veteran Brings Joy Through Song, Year Round
With a chill in the air and Thanksgiving 2024 in the books, there’s nothing like a little holiday music to ring in the rest of the season. And perhaps, with no one in earshot, you might even sing along, right? Even better: Try crooning carols in the summertime with dozens of others in a Southern […]
How CalVet Ensures that California Veterans are the Most Connected, Protected, and Respected Veterans in the Nation
Veterans Day is our annual national day of gratitude for those who have defended our country and our Constitution. But at CalVet, thanking veterans is a year-round, continuous honor, duty, and privilege. In fact, is it our vision that California’s veterans become the nation’s most connected, most protected, and most respected veterans, and this happens […]
CalVet Deputy Secretary’s Native American Military Heritage Spans 138 Years
As California Native American Day (September 27) nears, CalVet salutes the more than 13,200 Native Americans among the state’s 1.5 million military veterans and their families. Add Coby Petersen, CalVet’s deputy secretary for the Veterans Homes Division for the past decade, to the list. Petersen is a retired U.S. Army colonel, is one-quarter Navajo, and […]
Veterans at Your Service: National Hire a Veteran Day Highlights the Benefits They Bring
National Hire a Veteran Day — July 25 — is the day each year we tout the amazing skills, knowledge, and energies our military veterans bring with them into the civilian workplace. It’s not simply a one-day event, though. Employers can and should hire veterans anytime, all the time, and — there’s no time like […]
Witnessing Apollo XI’s Liftoff Gave Lancaster Home Veteran One Giant Memory
On July 20, 1969 – 55 years ago this month – astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first earthling to set foot on the moon. The words he uttered as he descended from Apollo XI’s lunar module, dubbed “The Eagle,” still resonate “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.” David Lewis, a […]
Brothers of Band: Chula Vista Home Veterans Played for and with the Best
Whenever the mood strikes him, the sweet sounds of Raymond Robbins’ clarinet waft out into the hallways of the Veterans Home of California-Chula Vista. Next door, Oliver Luck listens in appreciation. These two veterans share more than just a common wall as neighbors at the Chula Vista Home. They share the bonds of military service […]
During Older Californians Month, CalVet Focuses on Specialized Services for Senior Veterans
Caring for the elderly is in CalVet’s DNA. It can be traced back to the opening of the Veterans Home of California-Yountville in 1884; and is flourishing today at all eight Veterans Homes located across California. The quality care that is provided to senior veterans at Yountville — which is slated to open a new […]
Yountville’s Chief Doctor Can Attest: Servicemembers’ Fighting Spirit Doesn’t End with Separation from the Armed Forces
Dr. Julie Fields will tell you that once a soldier, sailor, Marine, or airman—always a soldier, sailor, Marine, or airman. “Our veterans, like the active duty sailors and Marines I served, tend to be extremely resilient and sometimes downright stubborn,” said Fields.
Climbing the Ladder of Volunteering Success at Chula Vista Veterans Home
Several winters ago, Lois Cornish says she met a real Grinch: a notoriously cantankerous veteran who lived at the Veterans Home of California-Chula Vista. In our ongoing “Volunteers Serving Veterans” series, CalVet highlights Cornish, who began volunteering at the Chula Vista Home when it opened in 2000. She soon started recruiting some of her American […]
Redding Home Veterans Always Know What Volunteer Has in Store for Them
Whenever Dorothy Lipps volunteers to work in the tiny store inside the Veterans Home of California-Redding, she comes dressed for the part. “I’m very patriotic,” said Lipps, who began helping out at the Home seven years ago. “I always wear red, white, and blue. My two sisters and I always have done that, even when […]
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