A representative from the Washington Department of Veterans Affairs highlighted recreational activities at state veteran homes, noting that the Washington Soldiers Home features an on-site fishing pond. The facility hosts annual fishing derbies to provide residents with outdoor recreation and foster community connection. These fishing events also offer opportunities for local volunteers to assist and interact with the veterans.
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Clark County Veterans Advisory Board · May 14, 2026 · 12:12–12:21 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: fishing
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11:11 and the Walla Walla Veteran Home, so one on the east and one on the west side. They provide memory care. As we all know nationally, this is an important issue for us so that we need to ensure that we have memory care. Two of our other homes do not currently have that. I will say that our population, some of them do have a level of memory care or needs for that type of care. The individuals that are in our memory care units and those units are typically secured because they're trying to exit or they may have issues that require a higher level of care and those types of things where we wanna make sure that we're providing that level of service. I will add a little bit more where we're gonna increase the number of beds that we have in the future when I talk about some of the projects. The other thing that I'd like to mention that in our homes that we have, each of our skilled nursing facilities have different types of activities that they provide so that our residents can connect to their wellbeing and their quality of care. So for example, at our soldier's home,
12:10 we have a fishing pond. Every year we have fishing derbies and fishing opportunities for our residents to be able to come out and connect with the community. We also, it's an opportunity where our volunteers can come and provide assistance and continue to do that and volunteer in Spokane. We have our partnership with the Cattlemen Association, Combat Veteran Motorcycles, and a lot of barbecues that take place at that facility and our veteran service organizations are very active at each one of these homes. So I think it's important for us about volunteerism to make sure that we're keeping track of that. The Walla Walla home has a lot of activities where communities come in and do a lot of arts activities, music, dancing, choirs, and these types of musical things. And one of the advantages in our Walla Walla home is our licensed nursing home administrators, the pianist, and she's a vocalist, so she's able to provide that level of service and care for our residents there as well.
13:07 Talking about volunteerism, there's always opportunity for the community to come out and volunteer for any of the state veterans homes that we have throughout the state. If you need some assistance, I'll be glad to provide directions on that as well.
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of our skilled nursing facilities have different types of activities that they provide so that our residents can connect to their wellbeing and their quality of care. So for example, at our soldier's home, we have a fishing pond. Every year we have fishing derbies and fishing opportunities for our residents to be able to come out and connect with the community. We also, it's an opportunity where our volunteers can come and provide assistance and continue to do that and volunteer in Spokane. We