Serving to These Who Serve Us

A couple of months again I informed you about Dine On Us, a comparatively new 501c3 group whose mission is to offer off base eating and leisure alternatives for our lively responsibility navy households who’re coping with financial hardships.  The aim is to present people who serve us an opportunity to get pleasure from an evening out at an area restaurant, boardwalk enjoyable, a gasoline card and even groceries.  Most wouldn’t have the means to get pleasure from a date night time or night time out with their household which was merely unacceptable to Navy veteran and founder Cliff Baker.

Preliminary fundraising efforts within the spring raised $60,000 in present playing cards and 100 care packages valued at $300 every had been delivered to Navy and Marines from Naval Weapon Station Earle and Pink Financial institution.  One other 100 of those packages can be delivered to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst later this month.  These packages included a $100 present card to Chef Mike’s ABG, a $50 present card to Bum Roger’s, Caffrey’s or Burger 25, a $50 On line casino Pier Reward Card for rides and extra, a $50 Wawa gasoline card, an umbrella and seaside chair for Funtown Pier and Kohr’s ice cream for the complete household.  Every taking part enterprise donated a present card of the identical worth for each bought.

What most of us seemingly don’t know is these lively responsibility navy households live on poverty-level revenue and rely on authorities help applications.  As well as many are from out of state and unfamiliar with the realm which makes this monetary plight much more difficult.

There are numerous extra households in want so Dine On Us has began a brand new spherical of fundraising to they’ll donate extra present card care packages for Christmas.  They need to present $300 packages for 370 households via two occasions arising.  On September 8^th they are going to maintain an inaugural Movie star Golf Invitational at Blue Heron Pines that includes a number of former NFL stars and on October 2^nd it’s Cliff and Chef Mike’s 4^th Annual Chef Tasting hosted by Martell’s Tiki Bar in Level Nice Seaside.

For extra on these occasions and how one can assist go to www.dineonus.org.