Central Illinois business helps veterans get to appointments and enjoy outings

FORSYTH, Ill. (WAND) – Comfort Keepers is a locally owned business operating in Forsyth and Champaign. It provides services to veterans dealing with VA appointments and paperwork, along with a number of other services. “We do transportation. We can get them out. We just had a veteran last week. He wanted to go fishing and hasn’t been fishing in quite some time,” 20-year combat veteran and owner of Comfort Keepers Jayson Blunck told WAND News. “We went fishing for a couple of hours. We just had a blast doing it.”Comfort Keepers also makes sure veterans keep VA appointments.“It’s really important they meet their VA obligation with their appointments. Make sure they don’t miss them as well. So, we can get them to and from the VA; we have that as well,” Blunck stated.Blunck served in Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009. He was assigned to the Illinois National Guard in Decatur.