A local family-run paintball business in Freedom, Beaver County, Pennsylvania partnered with a non-profit veterans' foundation to help support and raise funds for post 9/11 veterans and their families.
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The owners of Three Rivers Paintball, Debra and Ryan Krischke, invited the It's About the Warrior veterans' foundation to be a part of their third annual Halloween-inspired paintball event, Zombies of the Corn. Volunteers from the It's About the Warrior foundation helped the organizers manage the parking lot during the event and received a $5 donation per car.
The third annual Zombies of the Corn was held at the Three Rivers Paintball complex, every weekend, from 7 pm until midnight, between October 2nd and November 1st.
The zombie-themed evenings included several 'haunted' buildings, a corn maze, zombie face painting, food and beverages, scary movies, campfire ghost storytellers and a paintball zombie hunt, where visitors were taken through the woods, on a 24-people wagon equipped with paintball guns, to shoot 'live zombies'.
The It's About the Warrior Foundation was created in 2012 by Steve Monteleone, a seven year disabled United States Air Force veteran, to assist and empower Tri-State area post 9/11 veterans and their families.
The non-profit foundation is based in Butler, Pennsylvania and provides numerous transitional, economic, recreational and therapeutic assistance programs to post 9/11 veterans in the tri-state area of Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Northern West Virginia.
According to the latest Current Population Survey, released by the Department of Labor in 2015, the national unemployment rate among post 9/11 veterans is 7.2%, compared to only 5.3% for all veterans and 5% among the general population. The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans revealed that approximately 33% of homeless males in the U.S. are veterans.
Three Rivers Paintball also offers active military service men and women free admission to its paintball and airsoft games. The business was founded in 1983, by Debra and Ryan Krischke, and its 70-acre compound in Freedom, Beaver Country, Pennsylvania, includes 11 different outdoor and indoor paintball and airsoft arenas. For 16 years, the Three Rivers Paintball compound hosted the International Amateur Open, a tournament featuring amateur paintball players from around the world.
