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Vet Fest is helping connect veterans to the VA benefits they\u2019ve earned.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The free event will inform vets of available resources and provide on-site support from the Department of Veterans Affairs and other veterans service organizations. It will include toxic exposure screenings, women’s health services, mental health support and healthcare enrollment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Florida saw the third highest increase in vets enrolling for VA health care over the last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs you know even in Tampa, up in to Lakeland and Orlando, while there\u2019s a lot of healthcare out there, a lot of times our veterans have to wait,\u201d said David Dunning, executive director of James A. Haley Veterans\u2019 Hospital and Clinics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veterans will also receive help with employment assistance, housing counseling and transportation services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vet Fest is Saturday, Nov. 16 from 10 a.m. \u2013 2 p.m. at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland. No advance registration or sign-up is required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vet Fest is helping connect veterans to the VA benefits they\u2019ve earned. The free event will inform vets of available resources and provide on-site support from the Department of Veterans… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"6","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":51876,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/images-4.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[10329,10328],"class_list":["post-51875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-nov-16-from-10-a-m-2-p-m-at-publix-field-at-joker-marchant-stadium-in-lakeland","tag-vet-fest-is-saturday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51877,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51875\/revisions\/51877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}