Information fair to provide advice to veterans, kin

Local and area veterans seeking information on benefits may find what they need at the 21st annual Veterans Information Fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Elks Lodge 2771.

The fair will include about 20 medical, legal, business, education, job and service organizations and agencies.

The fair, hosted by Texarkana Area Vietnam Veterans of America 278, has invited the Texas Veterans Commission, the Texarkana Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic, Texas Workforce Commission, Arkansas Workforce Commission, Overton Brooks VA Medical Center of Shreveport, Little Rock’s VA Medical Center, the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs, Social Security Administration and local veterans service officers and VA field office personnel.

Other participants will include East Funeral Home, Hospice of Texarkana, the American Red Cross, Lone Star Legal Aid, the Area Agency for the Aging from both Texas and Arkansas, Dierksen Hospice, Red River Federal Credit Union, Home Depot and veterans education counselors from Texarkana College and Texas A&M University -Texarkana.

The fair is free and open to all veterans in active military service, the reserves and National Guard, as well as their immediate family members.

There also will be a voter registration drive for both Texas and Arkansas.

For more information, call 870-773-8279, 903556-1613, 903-824-2727 or 903-628-7216.

The lodge is at 3702 New Boston Road.