Banking on generosity

Date: 9/6/2011

Officers of the Westfield River Valley Detachment 141, Marine Corps League recently presented a Certificate of Appreciation to Easthampton Savings Bank for its donation of $1,200 to the league’s Saturday morning free breakfast program that welcomes vetera’s from the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home and the VA Medical Facility at Leeds.

Pictured, from left to right, are Brian P. Dupee, detachment commandant, William S. Hogan, bank president and chief operating officer, and Dan Bishop, detachment senior vice commandant. The weekly breakfast program, which resumes in September, is open to all Western Massachusetts veterans. Donations are accepted.