Motorcycle club revs up fortunes of Glassboro VFW post

Motorcycle club revs up fortunes of Glassboro VFW post
Thursday, March 11, 2010
By Jessica Driscoll
jdriscoll@sjnewsco.com
GLASSBORO Thanks to the help of a local motorcycle club and renewed community interest, the borough's Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 679 is back in business booking rentals and completing necessary renovations.

"Once we got into the public eye, we started getting some rentals and personal donations sent to the post," said VFW Quartermaster Charles Gallagher. "We host a lot of events at the post for no charge for groups like the rotary, South Jersey Vietnam Veterans and the Roughnecks, and the Roughnecks a little motorcycle club made up of state and local employees decided they wanted to help. They put together a successful fundraiser and between that, the rentals and help from the public, we're certainly in the black again."


The Roughnecks' fundraiser, called the Frostyballs Poker Run, was scheduled as a motorcycle ride around the county on Feb. 27 to raise money for the hall, with riders picking up a playing card at five different locations to make up a poker hand. Because of the snow and poor road conditions, the event was moved indoors and still managed to raise $5,000.

"These guys were absolutely great," said Gallagher. "They did everything and if we even tried to help, they told us to relax and said they were taking care of it. They're a great bunch of guys who rallied and raised all this money for us."
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Motorcycle club revs up fortunes of Glassboro VFW post