The SCOOTER Store Teams Up With Operation Jersey Cares to Provide Power Wheelchairs for Veterans

Gift of Mobility Program Aids Two Veterans WHO: Veterans Everette Erickson and Emil Tprilisqh

John Dorell, Commanding Officer, Operation Jersey Cares

Steve Graham and Greg Daiels, Account Managers, The SCOOTER Store

WHAT: The delivery of power wheelchairs to two Veterans

The donation is being made possible by The SCOOTER Store's Gift of Mobility Program in partnership with Operation Jersey Cares. Operation Jersey Cares helps the troops overseas as well as the returning soldiers and Marines that have been wounded in combat.

The SCOOTER Store, the nation's leading provider of power wheelchairs and scooters, created a Gift of Mobility program in December 2002. Since its inception, the outreach program has donated more than $200,000 a year in power wheelchairs, scooters and manual wheelchairs to community service organizations, enabling them to provide freedom, independence and personal dignity to individuals with limited mobility.

WHEN: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Delivery will take place between 11:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Menlo Park
132 Evergreen Road
Edison, NJ 08188

CONTACT: Alicia Ingram, +1-404-493-1724, for The SCOOTER Store

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Source: The SCOOTER Store

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