The cRc actively supports The Veteran Recreation Fund, a fund administered by the Chaplain of the Oklahoma Veteran Centers. Additionally, we support the Veteran Housing Fund on behalf of Food & Shelter. We choose to focus on former American Veterans who searched the sands of Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, who held the line in Candahar, who may even have been fighting in Vietnam but, for whatever reasons, find themselves in Norman, Oklahoma, with no means of support, or housing, no family or possibly even a lack of a car or a job....yet need someone, anyone to STEP UP and say WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY! And that, CRC members, is us.
All the money we make by putting on the annual Norman Veteran Center car show and what we make from the Moore Olde Town car show goes into this fund.
CRC gifts $3,500 to the Oklahoma Veteran Recreation Fund.
This contribution will be split among all 8 Oklahoma Veteran Centers and provide a few extras for veterans who are residents and have no known living family and no record of visitors.
This is the second such contribution given to the VA for this purpose in 2024.
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The first $3,500.00 donation to the Oklahoma Veteran Center Transportation and Recreation Fund was released today to the 7 centers across Oklahoma. This money may be used to benefit any veteran in a VA center in Oklahoma who has no known family and no known visitors. A similar amount will be given in November, in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
On the left is CRC Veteran Affairs and car show coordinator Ray Langley. Ray and his team do an outstanding job with our car show and in raising money for our Oklahoma veterans!
In January 2023, the CRC received $840.00 in donations for this fund. Shown above is CRC car show team leader Ray (right), who is giving DAV Chaplain Tommy (left) the checks from the club that were collected.