The Level of Excellence Award(LOE) has been received by our Chapter for at least the last 6 years excluding the Covid period. This is the 2nd year in a row for the 5-Star Award for our Chapter’s Newsletter and Website.

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What a successful Valentine’s Day General Membership Meeting

It was so good to see each of you that attended the GMM last night.  What a delightful time of fellowship.   Thank you for taking the time from your day to be present.   To those that were unable to be there, you were missed and we hope to see you at the next event.   You all are always welcome at the Board meetings and we would love to have you there.

Thank you to everyone that helped out last night (which was about everyone!).   From helping with the last minute set up, flags included,  to the breakdown of the event space.  Again, Patsy Alley hit it out of the park with her floral arrangements of roses for the ladies.  And CAPT Jim Fisher was quite the photographer of getting everyone’s Valentine photo.   I’m afraid that I would surely miss someone if I started rattling off everyone that helped last night.   What a wonderful group of people!!  Thank you.   

It was great to meet our new NCCOC President Capt Donna Culp and hear her comments on the state of MOAA in North Carolina.

If you did not get your shirt last night, please email or reach out to me and I’ll arrange to get it to you.  If you would still like a HCCMOAA shirt, let me know and we will get one to you.

I will be mailing out the Pancake Fundraiser (April 18) packets in the next couple of days.   George will send out an email shortly about that.   We certainly hope to see everyone there in their new royal blue shirt!

After the Pancake breakfast, then comes the Memorial Day ceremonies, flag placement, Blood, Sweat and Gears, the July 4th Parade and then the annual summer BBQ.   Plenty of events to participate in and fellowship with your comrades.  

As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please reach out to me.   We hope to see you all at the next event.  

Thank you to everyone for a wonderful evening last night.   —

Melanie Trado

High Country Chapter President

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What a very successful November for our High Country Chapter

We placed over 652 Flags on Veterans grave site at Mount Lawn Cemetery with 40 volunteers on Saturday 8 Nov 2025

We conducted our 19th Annual Veterans’ Day event at Boone Mall on Tuesday, 11 Nov 2025. Although our attendance was down a bit due to weather, our guests had the opportunity to remember and honor all our veterans with a inspiring invocation from Chaplain Jim Fisher and appropriate Veterans’ Day remarks from LTC Zack Jones, Professor of Military Science, AppState ROTC.

And finally, 17 volunteers retrieved our flags from MLC. on 15 Nov. We will inspect and store flags for Memorial Day 2026. Hope to see everyone again.

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