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President's Message - November/December Vance McCrumb This year was our 37th year providing Dawn Farm with their Thanksgiving Dinner. Per John K, in 1988 the Chapter was looking for something we could do for the community. Dawn Farm was chosen and we have been suppling their Thanksgiving Dinners ever since.
Our shopping crew was Stan Harrison, Eric Downie, Roy and Bonnie Hall and me. Missing from the picture is Eric. He had a fender bender in the Meijer’s parking lot and didn’t make it to the Farm. As usual, I’m stuffing my face. For the last few years Meijer’s has donated us gift cards which we put to good use for Dawn Farm. Last year it was for $500.00. This year it was $250.00. The five of us met at the Ann Arbor Saline Road store on November 16th and spent $444.52 for 100 plus items. Dawn Farm does send us a wish list of items they would like for their dinner. We didn’t have to buy any turkeys this year because someone donated a couple to Farm. After we deliver the chow, we sat in their Great Room and snacked on coffee and cake. They tell us who they are, where they are from and why they are residents of Dawn Farm and how long they have been there. This year there was a Marine veteran resident. We in-turn, introduced ourselves, branch of service, years we served and where we went to high school, etc. We had our 38th annual Christmas party at the VA Hospital in Ann Arbor. Bill Coleman wore his Santa Claus suit again this year. This is the second year Bill has come as Santa.
Photographer Marcin Szczepanski took pictures again this year. I believe this is his third year of recording the event at the VA. Marcin is a professional photographer who has traveled the world as a photographer and is John and Jane’s neighbor. We had a couple riders from Rolling Thunder as well as Chapter AVVA members, Kirk Profit from Ypsilanti and a couple VA employees.
John and Jane Kinzinger presented Stacey a VVA-MVP Most Valued Performer plaque recoginizing Stacey’s 32nd year entertaining the patients at the Ann Arbor VA.
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