CAN YOU HELP A N.H. VETERAN IN NEED?????

 

Greetings fellow Patriots

In addition to our Honor missions of Respect for NH’s fallen Heroes the NHPGR also supports NH Veterans and their families who find themselves confronted by challenging financial situations via our Help On The Homefront (HOTH) program. Matter of fact, while the NHPGR’s HOTH program has been approved as a 501c3 charitable organization for only a couple of years our HOTH program has helped NH Veterans and their families in need over the past year alone to the tune of $10,000.00! That would be correct, $10,000.00 that directly supported NH Veterans and their families. Our HOTH program has helped Veterans in need with fuel oil/propane purchases, electric utility bills, vehicle repairs & insurance, food, housing assistance (especially important to help prevent a NH Veteran from becoming homeless)  etc etc.

While they’re too numerous to list individually we are EXTREMELY GRATEFUL to all our generous donors and the many who have assisted in raising the funds necessary to support NH’s Veterans in need. While we have accomplished much and hope to do much more, on the down side and sadly the need for assistance has not diminished and will not for the foreseeable future. 

At this point you’re probably asking so where does the “Can you Help” tagline enter into the conversation? Reasonable question, here’s how. We conduct 3 fundraising events per calendar year, those events being our NHPGR Cash Raffle, NHPGR Poker Run and NHPGR Christmas Raffle.  We’ve just kicked off our annual Cash Raffle and are seeking your help. Our cash raffle tickets are a meager $10.00 each and limited to 500 tickets, the winning tickets will be drawn at our 3rd Annual Poker Run on 17 September 2016 at Heritage Harley Davidson in Concord (you do NOT need to be present to win!). There will be 5, yup that’s correct five $500.00 winners drawn along with 2nd and 3rd place prizes of a helicopter ride and a plane ride. Again, the tickets sell for a meager $10.00 each and there will be a maximum of only 500 hundred tickets sold. Please know we are NOT asking you to personally purchase any tickets (although if you wanted to we wouldn’t turn you away) we are asking you to assist in the sale of our Cash Raffle tickets. Hit up friends, family, co-workers, neighbors etc, after all who wouldn’t kick in $10.00 to a GREAT cause for an excellent chance at winning back 50 times their outlay???

In summary it’s very simple, our HOTH program is dependent upon Patriots the caliber of YOURSELF and YOUR generosity to continue our mission of supporting NH’s Veterans in need. If you’re able to assist please do respond to this email or reach out to one of the below listed members, get your NHPGR Cash Raffle tickets and help a NH VETERAN in need!

 

Al St.Aubin

astaubin@nhpatriotguard.org

603-765-9108

 

Frank Clayton

fclayton@nhpatriotguard.org

603-475-5764

 

THANK YOU for ALL YOU do in support of our nations Heroes!

 

Respectfully

It’s Not A Mission, It’s An HONOR

Bob Dorey

Patriot Guard Riders

NH State Captain

NHPatriotGuard.org


StateCaptain@NHPatriotGuard.org

603-533-8154




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