County Executive Hein is joined at the dedication by several members of the community who, through their tireless dedication and effort, helped make the Patriots Project a reality.

Color Guards from local American Legion and VFW Posts line up for the Patriots Project Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on July 2, 2014.

United States Senator Charles Schumer visits the Patriots Project Home the evening before the dedication.

Leaders from five local Rotary Clubs gathered at the County Executive’s Office and received warm thanks from Ulster County Executive Mike Hein for their generous support of the Ulster County Patriots Project. After listening to the County Executive detail the Patriots Project at a Kingston Sunrise Rotary meeting last week, the local clubs quickly mobilized and began seeking ways to help the County’s Veterans in need. the Rotary Clubs donated over $2,000 towards the project and have purchased furniture from Saugerties Furniture Mart and appliances from H.L.

County Executive Hein met with a group of the 9th grade religious education students and CYO members of St. John’s Church of Woodstock to thank them for their contribution of kitchen items for the Patriots Project located at 67 Wurts Street in Kingston. This transitional home for homeless Veterans will soon be open and will allow for easy access to the services the Veterans may need.

County Executive Mike Hein met with representatives of the Ulster County Board of Realtors to thank them and their membership at large for the generous sponsorship of four of the eight bedrooms of the Patriots Project home, which includes all of the furnishings and linens.

County Executive Mike Hein thanked members of the John F. Jordan Memorial Post #5086 VFW for their generous donations of a washer and dryer for the transitional home for homeless Veterans at 67 Wurts Street in Kingston. He was joined by VFW members: Commander Jim Cahoon, Darrell Nicholas, Bernie O’Malley, Don Sayut, Lester Frost, Herb Morehouse, and William Clogston.

County Executive Hein thanked students from Kingston Catholic School’s National Junior Honor Society for their donation of lamps and alarm clocks for all eight bedrooms of the transitional Veterans home. In addition, the students put together forty personal care kits for the many Veterans who will be residing there at different times.

Ashley Altieri, a Riccardi Elementary Student in Saugerties, raised $400 selling bracelets and donated the proceeds to the Patriots Project.