Helping our veterans

Unless someone has been through the experience, it can be difficult to fully understand what it's like for returning veterans trying to re-establish themselves within their communities and homes.

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For this reason, a $250,000-a-year commitment by BlueCross BlueShield of Western York to create a one-stop veterans outreach center with satellite sites is significant. The "Helping Our Heroes" announcement came the other day, along with the company's promised $250,000 cash and in-kind contribution.

Alphonso O'Neil-White, president and CEO of BlueCross Blue Shield of Western New York, has continued his company's support of veterans, engaging labor and private industry. As he correctly stated, many Western New Yorkers have put their lives on the line for freedom. It's only right that there be support systems in place when they get home.

So, too, was it fitting that he made the announcement outside South Buffalo Post 721, American Legion, on Cazenovia Street, and across from the Cazenovia Resource Center, which will serve as the first satellite center for this initiative. titleist ap2 710 irons

Referencing the success of the Veterans Outreach Center in Rochester, a great example of collaboration, the Buffalo outreach center will someday represent a place for returning veterans, active and reservists, to receive services ranging from mental health, housing, education and job training and placement.

Chris Kreiger, an Iraq veteran who was injured while serving, started the nonprofit WNY Heroes and is adept at bringing the message of veterans to the public. A one-stop center is so much better than trying to navigate a system, which is the power of this concept. It started with Kreiger's vision, working with Rochester.

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Many veterans are in desperate need of the range of services an outreach center could provide, which include health and wellness screenings and information about benefits.

It's heartening to know that there are a number of partners in the continuing effort to take care of our veterans. Now, it's time to build on that momentum by giving them a place to find hope.

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Hilary Duff buys marital home

Singer/actress Hilary Duff is ready to begin her life as a married woman - she's splashed out $3.85 million on a new Hollywood home ahead of her wedding to ice hockey star Mike Comrie later this month.

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The 22-year-old will reportedly exchange vows with the sportsman on August 14th, six months after becoming engaged. And the stars already have a marital home to call their own, according Ajax to In Touch magazine.

Duff allegedly snapped up the Georgian-style mansion after falling in love with the sprawling gardens surrounding the property. It also features spacious master suites and big walk-in his-and-hers closets, as well as a swimming pool.

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And Duff will be in good company - the house is located in the same gated community as Gwen Stefani and Britney Spears' homes. The couple has been dating since 2007. (starpulse.com)

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Freddy praises coach Gullit

RUUD GULLIT is described by Freddy Shepherd as "one of the most honourable men in football".

If that staggers some members of the Toon Army who hold him and Kenny Dalglish in low esteem after the KK years, then Shepherd defends the appointment of both, each of whom took Newcastle to an FA Cup final at Wembley of course.

"Football is supposed to be a world full of greed yet Ruud walked into my office, said he had lost the dressing-room, and wanted to go the next day.

"He didn't ask for a penny and he didn't get a penny. That was the act of an honourable man.

"He had just lost at home to Sunderland when he left Alan Shearer and Duncan Ferguson on the subs' handbags l bench and went with a kid Paul Robinson up front. That was his undoing.

"Ruud fell out with Shearer, of course, but even Alan admitted he was a wholesale designer shoes good coach.

"When Gullit first arrived, just as it was with Michael Owen, a huge crowd gathered at St James' Park to welcome him.

"He promised them sexy football which was something after the departure of Kenny Dalglish who had a dour image.

"However, it must be remembered that Alan Shearer was instrumental in Kenny coming here.

"Dalglish had won the championship with Liverpool and Blackburn, where he was Shearer's manager, so his record was first rate.

"We had just finished runners-up and he looked like the man to take us that final step."

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HONOUR: Ruud Gullit

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