Smithtown Women Make Blankets For Veterans

click on photo to enlargeA group of senior citizens from the Smithtown Senior Citizen Department recently spent the afternoon at the Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University.

According to Laura Greif, Program Director, “We have a group of very talented women who spend countless hours making quilts and lap blankets specifically for our nations’ veterans. They are a very patriotic group who want to say thank you in a personal way.”

The group distributed fifty quilts/blankets to residents, all of whom had the opportunity to pick out one in their favorite color.   Jacqueline Bodkin, Assistant Director of Therapeutic Recreation, hosted the event and was very grateful for the donation. 

Pictured from left to right are JoAnn Loh, Teresa Foti, Christine O’Connor, Rose Garbarino, Dorothy Lehl and Carolyn Eberhardt.

For more information about the Smithtown Senior Citizen Department come visit us at 420 Middle Country Road in Smithtown, call us at 631-360-7616 or visit us at  HYPERLINK “http://www.smithtownny.gov” www.smithtownny.gov.

Photo Credit: Patty Bornhoft