UPDATE: HIKE ACROSS AMERICA
by Ray Tharaldson VP Booyah Productions
On Nov. 11, the country will pause to honor the men and women of the
nation’s armed services who daily serve and defend our country.
This
Veterans Day, Caesars Entertainment and its Las Vegas hotels will sponsor this event and will honor
those U.S. servicemen and women with specials and discounts, support
the Las Vegas Veterans Day Parade and continue to focus on a
corporate-wide veteran hiring initiative.
The Las Vegas Veterans Day Parade is the second largest parade in the nation, second only to New York.
Businessman, Speaker, Marine Shane Johnson will hike into Las Vegas on Nov. 10th 2017 to attend and participate in the Las Vegas Veterans Day activities. Shane will hike in the Veterans Day Parade and also will be the key note speaker for various Caesars Entertainment events.
Shane Johnson is running 22 miles a day across America from Orlando to Camp Pendelton, CA to raise awareness for Veteran suicides and homelessness. The hike will take 65 days and cross 9 states. Shane will be speaking at homeless shelters in 20 cities as he journeys across America. Clean The World has partnered with Shane to supply 10,000 hygiene kits that Shane will hand out along his hike from Orlando to Camp Pendelton, CA. To prepare for the hike Shane trained with 1984-86 World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Pinklon Thomas.
Associated Press award winning photojournalist Raymond Tharaldson VP / Booyah Productions is producing the documentary "3,000 Miles For Your Why" about Shane's journey from homelessness to multi-million dollar business owner. Ray has worked at WSBT-CBS, WSJV-Fox 28, WNIT PBS & freelanced for CBN.
Businessman, Speaker & Marine Shane Johnson is the owner of Booyah Mortgage, Booyah Productions, Yellow bird Consulting and founder of Booyah Veteran Bus Project. Shane has been featured on USA Today, Fox News, IHeart Radio and numerous newspapers, magazines and local TV stations.
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, there
are 39,471 homeless veterans in the U.S. on any given night.
Johnson
says along with helping shelter veterans, his focus is on helping to
prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place. The Veteran Bus
Project gives entrepreneurship programs for veterans.
"We're all one crisis away from being homeless,” Johnson said.
"Our Mission is to create mobile shower buses, transit services, and
transitional facilities for Veterans-in an effort to prevent Veteran
homelessness." ~ Shane Johnson
“The important thing is to give," he said, "You'll get a lot more back if you do that."
The key, he said, is to “band together.”
“To
take a veteran and put them in a facility is to provide them cover… but
that doesn’t stop what’s on the inside,” Johnson said. “We’re missing
the key ingredient of that, which is giving them (veterans) that
comradery.”
Caesars Entertainment will host Shane at a 350 hygiene kit building event organized by Clean The World.
Clean the World is the largest global recycler of hotel soaps &
bottled amenities. Clean the World aims to prevent both waste &
hygiene-related illnesses.
This years Las Vegas Veteran's Day Parade includes all the schools with ROTC units, congressionally recognized organizations, civic and commercial enities. Veterans' organizations from surrounding states (California, Arizona and Utah) have regularly participated in the Las Vegas Veteran's Day Parade.
The Veterans Action group manages this parade. The Veterans Action
Group does not claim salary or expenses, so all donation go towards
the production and administration of the Las Vegas Veterans Day Parade.
Year-round, Caesars Entertainment offers veterans and active-duty military discounts
at all of its Las Vegas properties, including a 10 percent discount on
hotel rooms. For Veterans Day, active and retired military who verify
their identity through ID.me and visit Caesars.com during the dates of Nov. 11-13 can book a future stay for a 15 percent total discount. This is just one of several military discounts being offered.
You can also show your support for veterans and active duty military
personnel at the Las Vegas Veterans Day Parade. With more than 30,000
attendees, the parade is the largest west of the Mississippi. The Parade
begins at 10 a.m. on 4th Street between Gass and Ogden Avenues in
downtown Las Vegas. It runs past the southeastern end of the Fremont
Street Experience near Neonopolis.
The Air Force is sending a fighter jet to fly over the parade route
for the first time since 2012, when automatic budget cuts kicked in
under the so-called sequester law.
The jet of choice is an F-35 Lightning II, the nation’s newest stealth joint strike fighter, from Nellis Air Force Base.
“It’s going to be over the top,” parade chairman and Navy veteran
Bill Stojack said Wednesday. “For the first time since sequestration we
have a confirmed flyover. We’re really excited.”
He said an F-35 is expected to roar over Fourth Street in downtown
Las Vegas at 10:11 a.m. Friday, just as the first of 120 entries
including floats, bands, color guards and military vehicles begin to
roll north of Charleston Boulevard between Hoover and Stewart avenues.
Caesars Entertainment and its Las Vegas hotels are a Platinum sponsor
of and participant in the parade. Soldiers and military vehicles will
accompany Caesars Entertainment’s civilian float, alongside veteran
employees and supporters.
Bally’s Las Vegas
continues its tradition of hosting several veterans who were wounded
during their service. The hotel will provide them with Vegas VIP
treatment including providing hotel accommodations, care packages,
complimentary meals and transportation to the parade.
Caesars offers a wide list of dining, show, hotel and shopping discounts
for active and retired military. Some are offered just on Veterans Day.
Others are offered year-round. For all of these discounts, you will
need to show a Veteran Identification Card (VIC ID), Disabled American
Veterans ID (DAV ID) or Common Access Card (CAC) to verify your military
service. For online hotel bookings, you can verify your military
service using ID.me.
Veterans who shop at Caesars Entertainment-owned retail stores inside
its Las Vegas hotels will receive 25 percent off on Veterans Day. This
does not include stores in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, Miracle
Mile Shops or Grand Bazaar Shops.
Caesars Entertainment continues to honor veterans’ honor, courage,
loyalty, leadership, accountability, drive and dedication with a
corporate-wide hiring initiative program. Launched in 2013, Caesars Enlisting Heroes
program focuses on helping veterans find jobs across Caesars Entertainment’s family of companies. More than 2,000 veterans have been
hired at Caesars companies and more than 80 events have been held geared
toward veterans.
“We are grateful to those who serve our country and take great pride
in the programs we have developed over the years to help support
veterans,” said Mark P. Frissora,
president and chief executive officer of Caesars Entertainment.
“Our
initiatives to hire and train veterans have been extremely successful
for our company, and we are proud to extend and celebrate these efforts
again this year in recognition of Veterans Day.”
For additional parade information visit:
For information about speaking engagements contact:
Missy Burchart at (407) 448-8538
Booyah Veteran Bus Project is approved by the Internal Revenue Service
as a 501(c)(3) tax- exempt organization, and all donations are tax
deductible to the extent provided by law.
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