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Reminder - Media Opportunity

To: Metro Area Media

What: Veterans of Tomorrow Helping Veterans of Today
Move to Eastern Nebraska Veterans’ Home
12505 So. 40th Street in Bellevue, NE

When: Saturday, July 14 -- 1:00pm – 4:30 pm

Volunteer "buddies" (airmen from Offutt Air Force Base) are pairing up with veterans to help them move to the Eastern Nebraska Veterans Home at 12505 So. 40th Street, Bellevue. Members and their families should arrive at the new Home between 1:15pm and 2:00pm

The Bellevue City Police Department will meet members at the off-ramp of Hwy 75 South and Capehart Road to escort them to the new Home.

Kathie Osterman will be on site that day and can help find veterans you can interview. Her cell phone is (402) 610-5049.

Please contact Kathie Osterman at (402) 471-9313 or 610-5049, or e-mail her at Kathie.osterman@dhhs.ne.gov if you plan to cover this story.

We respectfully request that you don’t go to the Thomas Fitzgerald Veterans’ Home the morning of July 14^th. That’s when members experiencing Alzheimer’s disease will be moving. You would not have permission to photograph or interview any of those members.

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