House of Heroes Connecticut to Officially Begin 14th Year of Service this Saturday Assisting Four Veterans in Wallingford

Dozens of Vets to be Served in 2025 Thanks to Support of Four New Partners:

AMVETS Post 18, Cirtec Medical, New England Financial Group and Ring’s End

Wallingford, March 27, 2025 – House of Heroes Connecticut (HOHCT), the Hamden-based Veterans

Service Organization that has transformed the lives of more than 250 military and public safety Veterans with no-cost home repairs focused on safety and accessibility, will kick off its 14th Year of Service this Saturday, assisting four Wallingford Veterans in three homes, including a husband/wife pair of Vets.

The organization anticipates assisting more than 30 Veterans once again this year, with monthly

weekend projects through Veterans Day week. The work will be accomplished thanks to the support of a wide variety of Project Partners, including four new Partners this year – AMVETS Post 18 (Enfield), CirtecMedical (Enfield), New England Financial Group (West Hartford) and Ring’s End Lumber (Branford).

The 2025 Year of Service begins at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Wallingford homes of U.S. Air Force Veterans

James and Martha Shea, 827 Clintonville Road; U.S. Marine Corps and Vietnam Veteran George Messier of 12 Nob Brook Road; and Joyce Baker of 11 Merwyn Road, the surviving spouse of U.S. Air Force and Korean War Veteran Leonal Baker, who passed in 2016.

Helping make Saturday’s projects possible are teams of student volunteers from the Quinnipiac

University classes of Professors Gail Garfield-Dadio and Mary Beth Schreindorfer, as well as students

from Choate Rosemary Hall under the guidance of Director of Community Service Melissa Koomson.

With the completion of Saturday’s projects, HOHCT will have served 260 Veterans in 71 Connecticut

communities and seven additional states since the organization’s founding in 2012.

House of Heroes’ new Project Partners for 2025 join existing Project Partners Annawon Masonic Lodge

115 (West Haven); Connecticut Carpenters Union Local 326; Disabled American Veterans, Hardware City Chapter 8; The Inspired Kitchen; Johnson Brunetti; Knights of Columbus, The Honorable W. Patrick

Donlin Assembly 2459 (New Haven); Knights of Columbus, Bishop Fenwick Assembly 100 (Norwalk);

Liberty Bank; Northwestern Regional School District No. 7; PCX Aerosystems; Sikorsky, a Lockheed

Martin Company; Skydive for Veterans; and Triumph.