Veteran-Owned Subway On NBC Nightly News

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On Veterans Day, NBC Nightly News ran a piece on growing efforts to establish and promote veteran-owned businesses. The cameras stopped–all too briefly–at Don Johnston’s Subway sandwich franchise at the intersection of Bloomfield and Pompton Avenues. Johnston, you might remember, is a U.S. army veteran who served in Iraq who was so impressed by the Subway outposts set up for the troops that he decided to make one his own. Johnston appears and three-quarters of the way through the clip below.

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Virginia Citrano
Virginia Citranohttps://myveronanj.com
Virginia Citrano grew up in Verona. She moved away to write and edit for The Wall Street Journal’s European edition, Institutional Investor, Crain’s New York Business and Forbes.com. Since returning to Verona, she has volunteered for school, civic and religious groups, served nine years on the Verona Environmental Commission and is now part of Sustainable Verona. She co-founded MyVeronaNJ in 2009. You can reach Virginia at [email protected].

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