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Broadview University massage therapy student April Geffre massages the arm of Korean War veteran Robert Koldewyn at George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home on Saturday. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Massage therapists offer hands-on thank you to veterans

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 12:12am

OGDEN -- Using the power of touch, a group of local college students brought comfort and relaxation to Top of Utah veterans.

Students from the massage program at Broadview University in Layton paid a visit Saturday to the George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home.

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Capt. Nancy Immormino, of the 419th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, presents a flag to Kim Wixon (left), state officer of the George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home, and Terry Schow (right), executive director of the Utah Department of Veterans Affairs, on Friday at the facility in Ogden. The flag was donated after it was flown on a combat mission in an F-16 over Afghanistan.

From Afghanistan to Ogden: Flag donated to veterans home

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, August 20, 2011 - 12:02am

Capt. Nancy Immormino of the 419th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, presented to the George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home in Ogden on Friday a flag that was flown on a combat mission in an F-16 over Afghanistan.

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William Eatchel, 17, who collecting fishing equipment and donating it to the George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home, is pictured at his home in Harrisville recently.

Boy Scout helps veterans go fishin'

Jamie Lampros, Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 11:18pm

HARRISVILLE -- William Eatchel wanted to collect 20 fishing poles for folks at the George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home, so he started asking the community for help.

The community reached out more than the 17-year-old imagined possible.

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GSL Minerals brings a holiday party to veterans home

Press release

Last updated Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 11:45am

OGDEN - Holiday volunteers from Great Salt Lake Minerals Corp. hosted a Christmas ice cream party for the residents of the George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home this afternoon, after delivering a truckload of $11,000 worth of food to the Catholic Community Services Joyce Hansen Hall Food Bank in the morning and loading holiday food bags for more than 1,000 families.

The company also contributed $1,000 each to the Cache County Community Food Bank in Logan and the Family Connection Center Food Bank in Layton.

"GSL Minerals is like Santa.

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