The VA Illiana Health Care System will have a welcome home event for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Saturday, Aug. 7 at a Peoria Chiefs baseball game in Peoria. There will be food, prizes, children’s entertainment, live music, baseball, fireworks and information on Veterans benefits, programs and services.
The event is for Iraq and Afghanistan returning Veterans, Active Duty Service Members, National Guard and Reserve Members and their Families.
This year the welcome home planning committee is kicking things off with a t-shirt design contest.
Any Veteran, Active Duty Service Member, National Guard or Reserves that would like to participate in this contest can do so through the entire month of April 2010. Winners from this contest will be announced on May 3, 2010.
For more information about the t-shirt design contest rules and regulations or the Aug. 7 welcome home event, please contact Heather Ketchem at 217-554-4315.
There will be a limited number of tickets given out for this event.
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