VFW Auxiliary thanks Job Corps students for service to local veterans

Provided photos: Right to left,  Eric Seppala, Center Director, and David Berry, president of the VFW Auxiliary, students Alphonzo Snow, Arletys Arrigo and Sienna Jack, who holding their certificates; and Job Corps Operations Director JT Thomas.

MEDINA – The Iroquois Job Corps in recent years has made it an annual mission to support the VFW Post in Medina on Veterans’ Day.

To show their appreciation, Medina VFW Auxiliary president David Berry today presented the Job Corps with certificates honoring the services provided by the Iroquois Job Corps students.

Annually, students from Job Corps make and bring Veterans’ Day cards to the VFW for veterans. Volunteers from Job Corps pass out the cards, help set up tables for the free lunch for veterans and their families, serve lunch and then assist with clean-up, according to JT Thomas, operations director at the Job Corps.

David Berry, president of the Medina VFW Auxiliary, presents a certificate to Alfonzo Snow, honoring him for the service he provided to veterans on Veteran’s Day.

This year on Veterans’ Day, the sidewalks were covered with snow and student Alphonzo Snow quickly volunteered to shovel all of the sidewalks around the building leading up to the doors, so veterans and patrons would not fall. Besides their volunteering efforts, students that day donated a patriotic bench the carpentry students had made for the VFW.

Berry, Thomas and Center Director Eric Seppala are planning some community service opportunities which will have more students from Iroquois Job Corps working with the Medina VFW Auxiliary to help with local clean-up projects around Medina.

The carpentry students at Iroquois Job Corps also built, and donated a patriotic bench to the Medina VFW Veterans on Veteran’s Day. Veterans from left are Tom Snyder, Eric Delano, Jim Freas, Louis Chraston, Pat Little and Mike Harmer.