Fox Valley Veterans Programs
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The Fox Valley chapter is proud to support our veterans. Our major activity centers on support to vets who are either home bound or in nursing homes. The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution created the Stark Award as a way of encouraging local SAR chapters to support veterans. |
The Stark Award program creates a point system to measure the total amount of participation by individual members of local SAR chapters. All chapters who accumulate 3,000 points in one year are recognized with a streamer for their chapter Flag. Ron Smith, coordinator of the Stark Award, will be pleased to send a one page log so that Fox Valley members can keep track of visits to vets, gifts to vets, participation in veterans activites or grave marking ceremonies of soldier who fought in the American Revolution.
Please send Ron an e-mail to get a blank log. Please mail or e-mail logs with any amount of activity to Ron by December 31st each year. Click to send an e-mail to Ron with questions or to get a log.
Another way compatriots can support our veterans is to support our troops. We are familiar with an excellent, effective volunteer organization in Naperville Operation Support Our Troops - Illinois. They send individually addressed gift packages to our troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. Please consider donating time or money to this worthwhile organization.
On June 28, 2007, Chuck Sener, Chairman of the Veterans Committee of the ILSSAR, presented a check to Hines Hospital in Chicago
to be used to support our veterans. Also participating in the presentation and visit were Ron Smith, Chairman
of the Veterans Program of the Fox Valley Chapter. Photo taken by Don Parrish, Fox Valley Chapter President.
On May 9, 2006, Chuck Sener, Chairman of the Veterans Committee of the ILSSAR, presented a check to Jim Arrington,
Administrator of the Illinois Veterans Home in LaSalle. Also participating in the presentation and visit were Ron Smith, Chairman
of the Veterans Program of the Fox Valley Chapter, and Marian Bickett, Supervisor of Volunteer Services.
In January 2006, Ron Smith was photographed visiting with some the veterans living at the
Devonshire nursing home in Lisle. First photo is a close-up of Ron; the second shows the whole group. Please contact Ron
and visit some veterans at other nursing homes. They would really enjoy it.