Free coats offered to homeless and low-income veterans Sunday Posted Oct 23, 2016 at 10:45 AM Share PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A nonprofit group is working with the Providence VA Medical Center to give away winter clothing to homeless and low-income veterans. Operation Stand Down…
It started as a yearly weekend encampment to help local veterans. Now two decades later, Operation Stand Down has more than 60 units of housing statewide for veterans in need. “We had our first interview with Operation Stand Down. We…
Dozens of people remain homeless following a devastating fire in Warwick. And for the next two weeks, Jason Boulay will call a hotel room home. He lived in a second floor apartment at the Westgate Condos with his fiancée and…
Two Warwick veterans who called the Westgate Condominiums home are now without possessions following the disastrous March 11 fire that destroyed their building. But because of community support and assistance from the Johnston-based organization Operation Stand Down Rhode Island (OSDRI),…
The sounds of shoveling, raking, drilling, and pounding were heard all day as the finishing touches on a brand new Veterans’ home in Westerly come together. Erik Wallin is the Executive Director of Operation Stand Down Rhode Island, the organization…
Over 450 veterans were provided with life essential services this weekend at the 21st annual Operation Stand Down Outreach Weekend in Diamond Hill State Park in Cumberland.The veterans that attended the three day event were given access to a variety…
CUMBERLAND, R.I. (AP) — A group that helps Rhode Island veterans find housing and employment and connects them with health care services is preparing for its annual three-day outreach weekend. Operation Stand Down Rhode Island is holding an opening ceremony Friday…
Operation Stand Down Rhode Island kicks off its 21st annual outreach weekend at noon on Friday, Sept. 19, at Diamond Hill Park, Route 114, Cumberland. In an opening ceremony, the Walmart Foundation will present OSDRI with a $100,000 grant to…
Too many hands, so states an old adage, will spoil the broth. However, that won’t hold water with people like Erik B. Wallin, Esq., a former U.S. Air Force captain who currently serves as executive director and legal counsel for…
PROVIDENCE — Unemployed Rhode Islanders and the people on the front lines helping them find new jobs give mixed reviews of a new state requirement that those who receive unemployment benefits must soon post their resumés to an online job…
