{"id":69595,"date":"2017-07-14T19:03:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T01:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-hearing-in-cortez-thanks-veteran-customers\/"},"modified":"2017-07-15T01:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T01:03:48","slug":"montezuma-hearing-in-cortez-thanks-veteran-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-hearing-in-cortez-thanks-veteran-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma Hearing in Cortez thanks veteran customers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=93006e5c-09ab-4b27-806e-7f1fab54eae1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1964\" alt=\"Scott Story serves food to veterans and their families at the Montezuma Hearing Clinic on Friday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Scott Story serves food to veterans and their families at the Montezuma Hearing Clinic on Friday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Stephanie Alderton\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Montezuma Hearing Clinic held its first appreciation dinner for veteran clients.<\/p>\n<p>The clinic, on Cottonwood Street in Cortez, provides hearing aids for a large number of Montezuma County veterans. It\u2019s one of the few hearing clinics in the region that participate in the Veterans Choice program, which allows community health providers to serve people enrolled in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare plan. Nearly 70 veterans and family members responded to the clinic\u2019s invitation to the July 7 cookout, and organizer Scott Story said he expects to make it an annual event.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma Hearing joined the Choice program three years ago, Story said, and he believes it\u2019s been beneficial for both the clinic and local veterans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a way we see that we can help serve back to those that have served us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>At the cookout, he and a few other staff members served beans, brisket and pulled pork under canopies outside the clinic. Several veterans stopped to compliment the chef on how good the food was. Many were longtime hearing aid clients, but some had started coming more recently.<\/p>\n<p>Carole Cole said she and her husband, Bud, a World War II veteran, had only recently started taking advantage of Veterans Choice programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t know we could do this,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a big help to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma County deputy Donnie Brown stopped by with one of the sheriff\u2019s new mounted patrol horses, recently renamed Rebell. Several guests came up to pet the horse and take pictures. Brown said he\u2019s trying to bring Rebell to as many crowded events as possible as part of his training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s doing well so far,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Story said he hopes to host many more veterans appreciation events in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>celebrates 3 years in Veterans Choice program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,28,1141,167,29,184],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-69595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-healthcare-provider","tag-local-news-lead","tag-newsletter","tag-veterans-affairs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69595"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}