Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Hiring Our Heroes job fairs help veterans in 400 communities nationwide secure civilian professions.
To help veterans of all ages make the transition from military service to the workforce, communities, including Woburn, are taking part in a nationwide Hiring Our Heroes job fair campaign. The job fairs are geared specifically toward veterans and have helped more than 10,000 veterans and their spouses get hired. Hiring Our Heroes will be at the American Legion on Lexington Street Thursday, Sept. 13 between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Several companies have already signed on to take part, including CVS, Aerotek, Exit Realty, Liberty Mutual Insurance and the United States Postal Service. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hiring Our Heroes job fairs and Sgt. Dakota Meyer, a veteran Marine sniper who served in Afghanistan, have partnered with …
Monday, June 6, 2011
Officials to distribute service flags to families with children or spouses serving or killed in the armed services at no charge.
A gold star often means something good. Not for parents or spouses of servicepeople who hang a flag with a gold star on a white background with a red border on their front door or in a window. The Gold Star service flag means that their child or spouse has been killed in action serving his or her country. A similarly-styled service flag with a blue star indicates that a parent or spouse has a child or spouse on active duty in the armed forces. The flags provide “recognition for the pride and the sacrifice of that household,” according to Charles Culhane, commander of Woburn WFW Post 543. He got the idea to distribute the flags. VFW Post 543 and city Veteran’s Services Director Larry Guiseppe are working together in a new effort to …
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Woburn Senior Center
144 School St, Woburn, MA
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Bertucci's employees recover a grave marker intended for Natick Veterans Services Sunday morning.
In a strange discovery Sunday morning, employees at Bertucci’s found a tombstone in their parking lot. According to Woburn Police, Officer Mark Shaughnessy was dispatched to 17 Commerce Way for the odd discovery at 11 a.m. Sunday. “It is unknown at this time how the grave marker ended up in Bertucci’s parking lot,” said Officer Shaughnessy. “There was no damage to the stone.” Restaurant Manager Arghishti Gukasyan told police Sunday he saw an item in the parking lot earlier, but assumed it was trash. When two other employees arrived, they told Gukasyan that it was a gravestone. Gukasyan went outside and took the gravestone inside the restaurant “out of respect and for safe-keeping,” said police. When Woburn Police arrived, Officer …
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Bertucci's
17 Commerce Way, Woburn, MA
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