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February 2020 Chapter Events

February 14, 2020June 19, 2024 by littlerockcentennialdar, posted in Events, Service

A few members of Little Rock-Centennial Chapter ASDAR, served cookies, coffee and handed out Valentine cards to veterans at Towbin Healthcare Center at Ft. Roots in NLR, AR., as part of National Salute to Veteran Patients Week. The Valentine cards were hand written by local elementary school students. National Salute to Veteran Patients week takes place all across the United States. Thank you to Central Arkansas Veteran Healthcare System, Voluntary Services Office Chief Micheal Dobbs for inviting us to attend.

Some of our members also enjoyed a wonderful evening hosting Bingo, serving snacks and visiting with veterans at Towbin Healthcare Center at Ft. Roots. The husband of one of our Chapter members also attended. We always look forward to this evening.

February 2020 Meeting

February 10, 2020May 11, 2020 by littlerockcentennialdar, posted in Meetings

Along with our February business meeting, our program was about First State Regent for Arkansas DAR, Kathrine Breckinridge. Pictured is our guest speaker, Heather Register Zbinden. She is the Outreach Coordinator for the Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History and Art at the Central Arkansas Library System. She has worked in public history for over 20 years and has contributed to projects at the Old State House Museum and the Central High School National Historic Site. We learned so much about our First State Regent!

January 2020 Meeting

January 31, 2020May 11, 2020 by littlerockcentennialdar, posted in Meetings

Little Rock-Centennial Chapter had a wonderful monthly meeting to kick off the new year. Our program was Adult Literacy in Arkansas. Our guest speaker was Nancy Leonhardt. Nancy is the Executive Director of Adult Learning Alliance, Inc., the umbrella organization for 25 community based adult literacy councils around the state of Arkansas.

2019 Veterans Shoebox Drive

December 31, 2019January 9, 2020 by littlerockcentennialdar, posted in Events, Service

Thank you to all the wonderful organizations and individuals that participated in the 2019 Veterans Shoe Box Drive. Eighteen hundred boxes were collected in total. In December, the boxes were distributed to Veterans at VA Hospitals in Little Rock, North Little Rock and Hot Springs.

The Veteran Shoe Box Drive is organized by the Little Rock-Centennial Chapter DAR and is sanctioned by the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Voluntary Services office. Chief of Voluntary Services, Mr. Micheal Dobbs, and staff coordinated the delivery of boxes to veterans. We were thrilled to have NSDAR Arkansas State Regent Junelle Mongno join us for the delivery. We were able to hand deliver some boxes to veterans at the VA and many were left for veteran patients on each floor of the VA hospitals. Little Rock-Centennial Chapter DAR prepared 145 shoe boxes for women veterans.

Thank you to Publishing Concepts Inc. in Little Rock for storing the boxes and publishing the shoe box flyer in the Life in Chenal Magazine. It was truly an honor to deliver boxes to veteran patients and thank them for their service. Thank a Veteran today and everyday.

December 2019 Meeting

December 31, 2019January 9, 2020 by littlerockcentennialdar, posted in Meetings

The program for the December monthly meeting of the Little Rock-Centennial DAR Chapter was on the 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower.

The guest speaker at this meeting was Mr. Elvon Lloyd. He is a member of the General Mayflower Society and the Arkansas Society of Mayflower Descendants. He has four ancestors that came over on the Mayflower. He is also a member of the New England Historical Genealogical Society.

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