On Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 2:00 pm West Orange Habitat for Humanity will hold a “Welcome to West Orange County Reception” honoring Marine Sgt. Stephen Tovet and his wife Krystina at Tanner Hall in Winter Garden.
The reception will kick off the sixth Home At Last project to honor and build disability friendly, mortgage free, homes for combat wounded, permanently disabled veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars.
Congressman Daniel Webster, Orange County Commissioner Scott Boyd, Oakland Mayor Kathy Stark, Winter Garden Mayor, John Rees and Windermere Mayor Garry Bruhn have been invited to help welcome the Tovets to Oakland and West Orange County.
Sgt. Tovet was born in Orlando and grew up in Apopka. He and his wife, Krystina were high school sweethearts and are graduates of Apopka High School.
Sgt. Tovet enlisted in the Marine Corps in June 2006 and was deployed to Iraq in 2007. He was subsequently deployed to Afghanistan in 2011. He was seriously wounded from a IED blast while on patrol in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.
The explosion severely injured his left leg, hand, and right lower leg that required amputation of his left leg above the knee and surgical reconstruction of his hand and right lower leg.
Sgt. Tovet has served our country honorably and faithfully.
The reception is open to the public and all are invited and urged to attend.
Mark your calendar to join us and meet him.
