Riverfest breakfast to keep sending vets on Honor Flight

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FORT MADISON - The fourth annual Riverfest Charity Breakfast will take place from 8 a.m. until noon Sunday, Aug. 4th under the big tent in Fort Madison’s Riverview Park. 100 percent of the proceeds raised on the day of the breakfast will be used to send tri-state area veterans on the Great River Honor Flight to Washington DC in order to visit the military memorials.

American Legion Post 82 in Fort Madison is staffing this year's breakfast and will be doing the cooking and serving on the 4th. Dan Vice is the Secretary of the local post. “Each year raising funds for the Honor Flight is our number one Community Project. When Riverfest approached us about again being the beneficiary of this year’s breakfast we were delighted to stay involved. This event will help launch our annual campaign for the Honor Flight”.

Last year’s breakfast raised a little more than $4,000.00, enough to send 10 vets on the trip.

The menu for this years breakfast will feature Sausage Patties, Scrambled Eggs, Hash Browns, Biscuits and Gravy, Pancakes, Coffee, Orange Juice and Milk. The cost of the breakfast will be a free-will donation to The Great River Honor Flight. In addition Shuttle Service will be available from the Riverview Park parking lots to the breakfast site.

According to Vice, sponsors for the breakfast will cover the actual cost of the event.

“We would like to thank Fareway Food Stores, Heartland Harley Davidson, the American Legion and the Fort Madison Elks Lodge for getting involved. Because of their support 100 percent of the money raised at the breakfast will help send up to 15 Area Veterans on the Honor Flight. We are hoping for a big crowd and would like to invite everyone to stop in and support our Veterans.”

Riverfest is the largest 4 day Rock Festival in Iowa celebrating music and family fun on the Fort Madison Riverfront August 1st through August 5th.

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