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National Veterans Wheelchair Games Come to Moorestown Next Week
The schedule of events in Moorestown and other parts of southern New Jersey were released this week.
The National Veterans Wheelchair Games are coming to the Philadelphia area next week, and the schedule of events set to take place in Moorestown has been released.
The schedule reads as follows:
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
FIELD/TRACK - 8am and 1pm - Moorestown High School
TENNIS - Exhibition - 1pm at Moorestown High School
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
ARCHERY - 8am at Moorestown High School
TENNIS - Exhibition - 8am at Moorestown High School
Additional events being held in southern New Jersey are as follows:
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
BOWLING - 6pm- Laurel Lanes, Maple Shade, NJ
Thursday, August 14, 2014
BOWLING - 8am, 11am and 2pm at Laurel Lanes, Maple Shade, NJ
Saturday, August 16, 2014
TRAPSHOOTING - 9am and 1pm at Pine Valley Club, Berlin, NJ
The games, presented by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Paralyzed Veterans of America, begin in Philadelphia on Aug. 12, and conclude on Aug. 17.
The National Veterans Wheelchair Games is a sports and rehabilitation program for military service veterans who are confined to wheelchairs, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website.
The event is free and open to the public.
About 600 athletes will participate in the games, including a Vietnam veteran who suffers from multiple sclerosis, according to CBS Philadelphia.
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