PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) – A big donation is on the way to help New York veterans visit our nation’s capital with North Country Honor Flight.
Assemblyman Michael Cashman says he secured $50,000 for Honor Flight operations. Another $20,000 or so came from the Honor Flight Challenge, a fundraising effort from various groups across the North Country. That includes the local American Legion and a dispensary known as Grass Hole Cannabis.
“It really exceeded my expectations,“ said Brent Rogers, owner of Grass Hole Cannabis. ”I didn’t expect them to do a match for the first amount and then they kept just building on it and building on it, and it’s amazing that we can do this with our vets to get them down there to D.C.”…