After working at it for almost four years, Bill Whetsel’s vision of the first veteran housing in Orange County, New York, is about to come true.
Renovations on a newly purchased Port Jervis site just off Interstate 84 are to start in weeks, promising living spaces for 12 veterans. 
“The community of Orange County is unbelievable and outstanding,” he told The Epoch Times. “We couldn’t get where we are without the community.”  A sign supporting veterans on the property of the future veteran village on Main Street in Port Jervis, N.Y., on March 17, 2023. (Cara Ding/The Epoch Times)
Whetsel first got the idea of veteran housing from a Hudson Valley Veterans Task Force meeting in 2019….