Bikers Donate Thousands To Help Wounded Veterans
A local group is donating thousands to help wounded veterans and their families
Friday at Zane Landing Park, the Y-City Southeastern Ohio Bikers presented the Fisher/ Nightingale house with a check for $14,475.
"Fisher/ Nightingale Houses are compassionate care facilities like Ronald McDonald houses, but for the wounded, injured and ill troops and their families that come to the Wright Patterson Medical Center for medical treatment," says Chris Stanley the Executive Director of the Fisher/ Nightingale Houses Inc.
With the success of the Fisher House, Stanley says they are in the process of building another house at Wright Patterson Medical Center called the Nightingale House. The new house will be a single story, thirteen bedroom facility and be completely handicap accessible. The projected cost of the house is $3.15 million and the donation from the Y-City Southeastern Ohio Bikers is a big help.
"This is in the top ten of all the donations we have received," says Stanley.
The money was raised through events by area bikers and veterans and the Y-City bikers during the Vietnam and Iraq Bike Show in the summer. Mayor Butch Zwelling was on hand for the donation and says these bikers are some of the most compassionate and best people the city does business with.
Katie Jeffries
