Silver Springs hosts lunch for military, vets

The first lunch social for Silver Springs and Stagecoach military families and veterans will be hosted by the Silver Stage Task Force at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Senior Center in Silver Springs.

The task force, a nonprofit group of community volunteers from Stagecoach and Silver Springs, had been discussing ways to show additional support for the military families and veterans in their towns for the past year. They proposed creating a way for local military families, active and reserve soldiers and veterans to get to know one another through monthly lunch socials.

Because the area is remote from many groups and agencies such as the Veterans Administration, they also decided to invite speakers from military community support groups such as Blue Star Mothers, National Guard Family Readiness, Army OneSource and Reno Vet Center to share information at each event.

The speaker for the first lunch will be from Blue Star Mothers.

The group is seeking business and club sponsors to help sponsor future socials, which will take place once a month.

For more details, contact Task Force leader at 775-315-2990. Donations to support future lunch socials are welcomed.

The lunch socials are one of many community support efforts for military families and veterans taking place throughout Lyon County. Some of those were in response to the Military Community Covenant signed by about

75 community leaders from the Lyon County area during a ceremony at the September 2010 Healthy Communities Coalition meeting.

Community leaders and officials signed a "community covenant" that promised Lyon County communities and state and local groups will work together to increase support to the area's military families and veterans.