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HonorAir helps veterans stay warm

Veterans at the Veterans Restoration Quarters show coats bought with a $5,000 donation from HonorAir. [VRQ photo]

By Bill Moss, Published: December 17, 2014

HonorAir helped provide coats, gloves, shoes and clothing for many veterans who live at the Veterans Restoration Quarters and female veterans at Steadfast House with a donation of $5,000.

HonorAir founder Jeff Miller of Hendersonville presented the check Tuesday as a challenge gift for the community to remember  veterans at Christmas. These challenge funds will help to provide needed work clothes, boots and tools for 200 veterans at the VRQ and 12 women at Steadfast House.

The challenge funds will also help Veteran Services of the Carolinas, which serves 26 counties in Western North Carolina. This program helps put 300 veteran families back into the workforce and into permanent housing. Please make checks to Veteran Services of the Carolinas to help provide Christmas for up to 600 veteran families

The Veterans' Restoration Quarters offers 246 beds for men with 160 designated for transitional housing; 36 beds for emergency overnight shelter; and 50 single permanent supportive housing units. Steadfast House provides transitional housing for 27 single women and up to seven moms with children, including 10 beds for veterans plus two beds for emergency shelter for an average census of 43.