You can help the Elks give servicemembers a Home Away from Home [Video]

Grant funds have been reduced ahead of this year’s event that provides a Christmas Day meal and gifts for Goodfellow active duty members who can’t go home.

SAN ANGELO, Texas — It’s almost time for the Elks Lodge Home Away from Home event and the Elks need your help this year.

For more than a decade, the San Angelo community has held the event for service men and women stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base who can’t be home with their families on Christmas Day. This is the ninth year the San Angelo Elks will host the event.

Most of the young military members have recently joined the military and are still adapting to a new way of life, and this will be their first time away from home for the Christmas holiday.

This year, grant funding for Home Away from Home have been reduced and the Elks are looking for businesses that would like to help …