The Level of Excellence Award(LOE) has been received by our Chapter for at least the last 7 years excluding the Covid period. This is the 3nd year in a row for the 5-Star Award for our Chapter’s Newsletter and Website.
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1. Our Annual General Membership Meeting was held on Thursday, 8 Oct 2026 at the historical Dan’l Boone Inn with our members, spouses and guests enjoying a great country style dinner. Highlights included Treasurer’s Report, Legislative updates and upcoming events for the chapter. Our special guest speaker, David Jackson, President /CEO of the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce, gave us an excellent, knowledgeable update on what’s happening in Boone now and in the future. Thanks the all who attended this special meeting.
Our Chapter has a number of events scheduled over the next six(6) weeks which requires volunteers to help us achieve our planned goals.
- On Saturday, 24 Oct at 11:00, we are asking for volunteers to help us walk Mount Lawn Cemetery to check our decals on over 650 grave sites. The purpose: To make sure the decals, we originally placed three years ago, are still in good condition. This is in lieu of our chapter placing flags on these grave site on 7 Nov 2026 (see #2 below) for Veterans’ Day
2. “Flags Over the High Country ” Our chapter is scheduled to place 650+ Flags on Veterans grave sites at Mount Lawn Cemetery on Saturday, 7 Nov @ 11:00 and retrieve those flags on Saturday, 14 Nov @ 11:00. More details as we get closer but volunteers are needed, so plan now.
3. Veterans’ Day Program @ Boone Mall on Wednesday 11 Nov 2026. Watauga Community Band commences playing at 10:30. More details to follow.
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