{"id":22817,"date":"2014-08-11T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=22817"},"modified":"2014-08-11T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T13:00:35","slug":"davidson-named-new-county-director-of-veterans-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=22817","title":{"rendered":"Davidson named new county Director of Veterans Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_916237\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LawrenceDavidson-243x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-916237\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-916237\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"LawrenceDavidson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LawrenceDavidson-243x300.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-916237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawrence Davidson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Phoenixville resident Lawrence Davidson has been named the new Chester County Director of Veterans Affairs, according to the Chester County Commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChester County veterans will have an excellent advocate in Lawrence Davidson,\u201d said Chester County Commissioners\u2019 Chair Ryan Costello. \u201cThe commissioners are looking forward to working with him and providing deserved services to our veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davidson served in the United States Army for five years as an engineer. He was also a section sergeant at Fort Knox, Kentucky. \u201cI am working to understand the challenges facing veterans and I\u2019m proud to be in a position to serve the Veterans of Chester County as well as their families,\u201d Davidson said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chester County Commissioner Kathi Cozzone said, \u201cHe has an impressive work background including work in social programs involving veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davidson\u2019s previous position was the Veteran Center Coordinator at West Chester University Veterans Center, as well as the co-creator and graduate director of West Chester University\u2019s Soldiers to Scholars program until May 2013. He was also the founding member and President of West Chester University\u2019s Student Veterans Group in March 2011. Davidson served as a social work intern for the LZ II Transitional Housing facility in Coatesville and the Veteran Justice Outreach program of the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLawrence has a long association with Chester County and West Chester University,\u201d said Commissioner Terence Farrell. \u201cHis military experience also includes being a team leader in the Republic of South Korea where he guided engineer units from the army and navy of the Republic of South Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Director of Veterans Affairs, Davidson leads a department that assists veterans, their spouses and dependents in obtaining benefits, programs and entitlements, including the County\u2019s Veterans Court program and Veterans ID business discount program.\u00a0 The department also maintains the State-required County graves registration record and distributes flags and grave markers for Memorial Day remembrances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Phoenixville resident Lawrence Davidson has been named the new Chester County Director of Veterans Affairs, according to the Chester County Commissioners. \u201cChester County veterans will have an excellent advocate in Lawrence Davidson,\u201d said Chester County Commissioners\u2019 Chair Ryan Costello. \u201cThe commissioners are looking forward to working with him and providing deserved services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,5962,566,5963],"class_list":["post-22817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-lawrence-davidson","tag-veterans-affairs","tag-west-chester-university-veterans-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}