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Operation Cookie Reaches 2,000 Homeless, Hospitalized Veterans

Volunteers expanded their outreach this year.

It was a record year for Operation Cookie. 

Beverly Biber, chairwoman for the Women's Club of South Pasadena's annual fundraiser, said volunteers, including a WWII veteran and two Vietnam War veterans, packed cookies into decorative containers with a colorful salute for Memorial Day. The cookies were delivered to the Long Beach, Sepulveda-North Hills, and Loma Linda VA health care facilities (spinal cord injury, general and post surgery, nursing and convalescent care, and PTSD patients, Hospice Care units and Senior Day Care Centers); to homeless veterans served by the Cabrillo Center in Long Beach and by the VA Clinic in downtown Los Angeles.

Additionally, this year, organizers expanded their outreach to include the Wounded Warriors Battalion at Camp Pendleton and 29 Palms, as well as veterans in need served by the Goodwill Veterans Development and Employment program. Volunteers even had enough cookies to donate to USO troops arriving at the Ontario airport, Biber said.

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In all, 2013's Operation Cookie served approximately 2000 hospitalized and homeless veterans. 

Biber thanked the volunteers, many of whom came from South Pasadena.

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"Your response was rewarding and gratifying and helped to make this a very sweet (including sugar free cookies) Memorial Day for 2000 men and women veterans who have served our country,'' she said. 

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