The Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds, MA has a very successful Compensated Work Therapy Program for veterans. We have partnered with this program for several years and every year we have great fun hosting a holiday party with the veterans and the staff at our shop. We eat and play games (where we generally make complete fools of ourselves!) and we send them
Veterans Appreciation Day, 2017
For the last 7 years, we have collaborated with the VA Healthcare Center in Leeds, MA to provide work for veterans at the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop. The veterans in the program help us package our kits and other products. They do a great job for us, so we try to express our appreciation. We bring them lunch and gift bags which consist of little
Holiday Party for Our Team of Veterans-2016
Every year around this time, we have a holiday party for the veterans who work for us through the the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop at the VA Healthcare Center in Leeds, MA. It’s a great program and we are exceedingly grateful for the fine work they do for us. (If you are in our area and have work you might be able to sub out
Pictures of Our Veteran’s Appreciation Day, 2016
For the last 6 years, we have been honored to share part of our work load with the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop at the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare Center in Leeds, Massachusetts. The veterans in the program assemble many of our kits for us (and more). Through the years, many of these veterans and their staff at the VA have become good friends of
Appreciation from the VA!
As you may know, we have our 30 Minute Mozzarella Kit assembled by the veterans who work with the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop at the VA Central Western MA Healthcare Center in Leeds. (They also cut our wax, bottle our rennet and package our disposable cheesecloth.) The veterans in this program have done a wonderful job for us and we are extremely grateful that they are
Our Holiday Party with the Veterans
This year we carried on with our tradition of inviting the veterans who work on our team (assembling our kits, etc) to come from their workshop in Leeds* to our shop in Whately for a holiday party, with food, song and bingo. We really appreciate the work they do for us and it’s fun for us to have the opportunity to get to know them
We Appreciate Our Team of Veterans
It’s been 6 years since the Cheese Queen first heard about a program for veterans called the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop. She contacted the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare Center in Leeds and with the help of one of their vocational counselors, Tom Haskell, she transferred some of our assembly work to the program. Through the years, we have gotten to know many of our
Pictures of Our Veteran’s Appreciation Day, 2014
Ricki Carroll (The Cheese Queen) We owe a great deal of our success as a business to the help of a VA program called the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop. All around the country, this program provides jobs for veterans and help for businesses like ours. In 2010, we had a rapid growth spurt in our business. This was great, but we didn’t know how long