Central Florida WWII Veterans To Receive France’s Highest Military Award
• Seven central Florida veterans Wednesday will receive France’s highest distinction for military service.
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• Seven central Florida veterans Wednesday will receive France’s highest distinction for military service.
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• Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs Jeff Miller led the push to create the Veterans Choice program, and cooperated with his ideological opposite, Sen. Bernie Sanders, to get it passed. The Florida Republican has been among the VA’s leading critics, especially for what he considers mismanagement of the choice program and a reluctance to fire bad VA staff.
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• The Central Florida Commission on Homelessness reports that it has essentially ended veteran homelessness in the Orlando metro area. That fulfills a pledge city leaders made last year.
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• Scores of veterans met with area businesses on Tuesday as part of a program designed to get veterans into jobs.
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• A search last month for homeless veterans found 418 of them living on the streets in Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties. They are now being entered into a database to receive housing benefits through the Veterans Administration.
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• Advocates for housing the homeless are asking landlords to step up and help. They need up to 500 rental units just in the next year.
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• Last week hundreds of volunteers combed central Florida looking for homeless veterans like Robert Stoner. He’s exactly the kind of person hundreds of volunteers were searching for as part of a tri-county push to get homeless veterans off the streets and into housing.
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• Officials at Orlando’s VA Medical Center in Lake Nona are preparing veterans for longer wait times. That’s due to a shortage of nurses and doctors as 90.7’s Renata Sago reports.
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• Scores of volunteers will fan out across Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties starting Monday to spend a week counting homeless veterans. Orlando’s goal is to get every veteran off the streets by the end of the year.
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• Homeless organizations are getting ready to take a big step in the push to get every veteran in the Orlando area off the streets by the end of the year. It involves enlisting hundreds of volunteers to find and count homeless veterans.
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