Posted by Sanjiv Prabhakaran on Jul 01, 2018
Several members of Del Mar-Solana Beach (DMSB) Rotary volunteered to help the veterans at this year's StandDown event near Balboa Park. Thanks to Bill Sutton for coordinating the event for our members. Turns out that there were about 3000 volunteers to help serve and help the veterans for various needs, such as, legal counseling, getting driver's license renewed, doing various medical tests, taking care of their pets, applying for various veteran services, etc., all for free. DMSB sponsored a tent there to serve chilled water for all the visitors and volunteers. We distributed about 3800 bottles of water!
 
Enjoy some of the pictures taken by several members. One of the picture shows a lady wearing a hat. She has been visiting StandDown for many years and she started a fancy hat project 19 years ago! It contains Poppy flowers that she collected from the vets with their year and name on it. She sews on these flags onto the hat and has been maintaining the hat for 19 years so far!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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