BrattonDavid300pixJamestown (CSi) Area veterans are invited to participate in the National Salute to Veterans Week, February 14 – 20, 2016.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Stutsman County Veterans Service Officer, David Bratton said, the Fargo VA Medical Center will be chock full of activities and events, honoring the service of veterans.

Those include a welcome to the Military Order of the Cootie, Miss, Mrs.,and Miss Teen North Dakota, and musical entertainment.

The week is the opportunity for the community to become acquainted with volunteer opportunities within the Fargo VA HCS.

All events are free and most open to all veterans and their families.

For More information call 701-239-3700, Ext. 9-3397, or go to the VA Health Care Systems Facebook page.

Also on our show, Bratton pointed out that the Fargo VA Medical Center on February 5, 2016 from 10-a.m. to 1-p.m., will host a Heath Fair and Go Red For Women Expo.He added that on February 16th at NDSU a Town Hall Meeting is set with North Dakota Commissioner of Veterans Affairs, Lonnie Wangen.

He noted that the VA has expanded benefits for Camp Lejeune veterans who served there from 1953-1987, stemming from exposure to contaminated water at the base.

Bratton reminded veterans that the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month that the Jamestown PTSD Group meets from 12:30p.m., to 2-p.m., for support from combat veterans from the Fargo Vets Center.

Also the Burleigh County van stops in Jamestown to pick up veterans to go to the Fargo VA, and back again.

Contact the Stutsman County Veterans Service Office for a schedule and reservations at 252-9043.

The office is in the lower level of the Law Enforcement Center in Jamestown, and is open M-F from 8-a.m., to 5-p.m.