Columbia Culinary Team To Donate Food For Veterans' Event

The Columbia Culinary Team is proud to be donating the food for a gala honoring veterans who are patients at the Center for the Intrepid-Wounded Warriors on Nov. 21 at the Weston Centre in San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas (PRWEB) November 1, 2009 -- The Columbia Culinary Team is proud to be donating the food for a gala honoring veterans who are patients at the Center for the Intrepid-Wounded Warriors on Nov. 21 at the Weston Centre in San Antonio.

The affair will include 250 guests and their children; the children will be in a separate area, giving the soldiers and their spouses an opportunity to have a "date night."

"Times are tough right now, but we felt it was important to help honor these men and women who serve our country, especially those who have been injured while doing so," says Glenn Hurley, director of operations for The Columbia Culinary Team.

The adults will be served a sit-down dinner, as many of the soldiers would have difficulty navigating a buffet line. The children will be served a buffet.

"These soldiers have given so much to us and our country, keeping us safe," Hurley says. "This is the least we can do to show our gratitude to them and give them a chance to get out for a fun night."

The Center for the Intrepid-Wounded Warriors is a 60,000-square-foot physical rehabilitation facility for wounded warriors adjacent to the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. It was built with private funds donated by more than 600,000 Americans through the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, at a cost of $50 million. The Army operates the center, which opened Jan. 29, 2007, and it "serves military personnel who have been catastrophically disabled in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan," according to its website. Other veterans who have been severely injured, both in and out of combat, are also treated at the center.

Patients requiring advanced rehabilitation, soldiers who need limb salvage efforts and traumatic amputee patients are given training and learn techniques to help them live and work successfully. The center houses a military performance lab, as well as departments offering occupational and physical therapy, case management, behavioral medicine and prosthetics. A large part of the technology at the facility is not available anywhere else.

"Many of the soldiers that the center treats have not left the facility in a long time, and we want to give them the encouragement and purpose to do so - and for a great event," Hurley says. "The gala is just one way we can express our appreciation to these heroes."

The Columbia Culinary Team is a full-service caterer in the San Antonio area whose team members have years of restaurant management and catering experience.

"Our motto includes the words 'spare nothing' and 'celebrate in style,'" Hurley says. "We want to show these esteemed veterans and their families that we practice what we preach - and this time, in their honor. What better way for us as a company to say thank you to these extraordinary men and women?"

The Columbia Culinary Team can help cater any event. Visit the company's website at http://www.columbiaculinary.com/ and click on "Contact Us" to fill out its online information request form.

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