A golf cart is a very valuable commodity at the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home. With the golf carts, staff members transport residents who are unable to get around the facility. But according to Activities Director Bonnie Pelletier, the residents also enjoy golf cart rides over to the Charles Hall Library and the adjacent farmer’s market. Pelletier said they enjoy the wind blowing in their hair, the sights of the countryside surrounding the home and the smell of the honeysuckle. It enhances their experience at the home by having such sensory stimulation instead of being inside all the time.
The Activities Department had two golf carts. But age got the best of them and they had to be retired. As has happened so many other times when the veteran’s home was in need, local veterans organizations came to the rescue.
On Saturday a truck pulled up to the veteran’s home and out came a brand new golf cart, which was provided by Metro Golf Park of Brandywine at a very reasonable cost. Along with the cart were representatives of four of the organizations that provided the money to purchase the cart. The organizations were:
· American Legion Post 227 in Brandywine – Commander Mike Arnold, Adjutant Jeff Levesque and Auxiliary President Connie Dehart.
· American Legion Post 293 of Waldorf – Legion Riders Director Jeff “Hawk” Levesque, Sons of the American Legion Commander Tim Petschk, and Michelle Warren, representing the auxiliary.
· VFW Post 8810 of Waldorf – Commander Jim Gajarsas, and Trisha Chilton, representing the auxiliary.
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