Maple Family Centers donates $20K to support Long Beach Waterfront Warriors

A recent $20,000 donation from Maple Family Centers helped to fund free, week-long vacations for dozens of wounded United States veterans and their families at Long Beach’s Allegria Hotel and residents’ private homes in Long Beach.

The special guests were treated to luxury accommodations, surfing lessons, salon visits, fishing excursions, dinners at local restaurants, a trip to New York City, and plenty of time on the beach for a week in July thanks to a partnership between Long Beach Waterfront Warriors and the Long Beach Barrier Island community.

“As a Long Beach family, we are proud to support the Long Beach Waterfront Warriors and this wonderful annual event,” said John LaSpina, president of Rockville Centre-based Maple Family Centers. “Long Beach Waterfront Warriors is a local, volunteer-driven organization that brings the entire community out to welcome our nation’s heroes with love. This special event brightens the lives of these special men and women who have given so much of themselves.”

To date, Maple Family Centers has raised more than $750,000 for the Bowlers to Veterans Link (BVL), a national charity that supports recreational therapy programs to speed recuperation and boost morale of America’s veteran and active-duty service men and women. Funds that Maple raises for BVL are distributed to local organizations serving veterans in communities across Maple’s footprint, including the Long Beach Waterfront Warriors. 

For more information about Long Beach Waterfront Warriors, visit https://longbeachwaterfrontwarriors.org/. 

To learn more about Maple Family Centers, visit https://maplelanes.com/.