Tuesday, May 21, 2013
7 am – 1 pm
2 Drive-Thru Locations
Shasta Mall at the intersection of Hilltop and Dana Drive
&
Vet Hall on Yuba St next to downtown Post Office
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Remember, Aim High – Air Force!
Sequestration. Is it a government-created mess, as some suggest, or just what the doctor ordered?
Over the past few months, Washington politicians at all levels have scrambled to disavow responsibility for the mandatory $1.2 trillion in cuts to defense and domestic budgets over the next decade.
Perhaps, albeit quite unintentionally, they’ve actually stumbled upon the kind of strong medicine needed to save the patient.
With both republicans and democrats at the helm, the size of our federal bureaucracy has grown substantially and America continues her death spiral towards financial insolvency. Years of partisan squabbling, political grandstanding, and empty promises have accomplished nothing.
Remember the Gang of 6? The trillion dollar coin? A plethora of committees, commissions and studies? The Simpson-Bowles Deficit Reduction Plan? Pay as you go? Spending caps? Balanced budget amendment? All talk and no action.
Although sequestration probably isn’t the smartest way to run a government, it certainly is a first step in the right direction towards gaining control of the nation’s finances. A step that might not otherwise have been taken by our esteemed politicians.
Clearly, sequestration won’t be pretty and it won’t be easy. But that’s what you get when you’re over $16 trillion in debt.
Heck, if I had my way, we’d be upsetting all the apple carts with 15% across the board cuts.
Dare I Say, Let the Cuts Begin – - – Finally!
LOS ANGELES – The Department of Veteran Affairs is planning to turn an underused building on its sprawling West Los Angeles site into housing for 65 chronically homeless veterans.
The Los Angeles Times reports Sunday (http://lat.ms/V0l3y) that the $17.6 million project is scheduled to start in late January and be completed in the spring of 2014.
The project calls for renovating a 1945 building used for veteran silkscreening and printmaking programs and refurbishing it into 55 units, including 10 shared apartments and supportive services including job training. One wing will be designated for women.
The VA has come under criticism and a lawsuit over how it uses its West Los Angeles facilities. Critics say the department rented out some facilities to businesses instead of using them to house homeless veterans.
Something to consider over the holidays.
150 warm, dry, and furnished apartments still sitting empty at the brand new Redding Veterans Home, almost one year after being completed in January 2012 at a cost of $88 million.
$119,000 each month to staff and maintain this unused facility, including salaries, benefits and utilities, totaling roughly $1.43 million dollars a year.
3 to 4 more months of cold, wet, windy winter weather ahead for North State residents.
2,213 total individuals, representing 1,581 households, were homeless at some point in 2011 and 983 total individuals, representing 423 households, were imminently at-risk of becoming homeless. 315 children were homeless and 458 children were imminently at-risk of becoming homeless. 99 veterans were homeless (Source: City of Redding Shasta County Homeless Continuum of Care Council 2011 year-long homeless survey, www.co.shasta.ca.us/index/housing_index/coc_index.aspx).
If you feel the Veterans Home should be offered as a place of respite for the homeless, at least until such time as it is utilized for its intended purpose, please consider sharing your thoughts with Peter J. Gravett, Secretary, California Department of Veterans Affairs, at Peter.Gravett@cdva.ca.gov or 1227 O Street, Suite 300, Sacramento, CA 95814.
I did.
Dare I Say, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
December 15, 2012, 12:00 Noon
Northern California Veterans Cemetery
It is truly fitting and proper that we remember and honor the sacrifices of our fallen Veterans during the Holiday
Season with the placement of wreaths at their gravesites.
The Wreaths Across America program is based on an age-old tradition. Holiday Wreaths have long been associated with joy, triumph, honor, remembrance and eternity.
WAA Program ~ Master of Ceremony ~ NCVC Administrator Stephen Jorgensen
Presentation of Colors ~ California National Guard
National Anthem ~ Graycee Winton, West Cottonwood Jr. High School
Pledge of Allegiance ~ 3rd & 4th Grade Leadership Team, North Cottonwood School
Invocation ~ Pastor Rod Brayfindley, First United Methodist Church
West Cottonwood Jr. High School Project Presentation
A Time to Remember – Faith Laughlin
A Time to Honor – Marcus Kuchle
A Time to Teach – Jared Zambrana
Speaker ~ Michael Coffey, USAF (Ret)
Military Wreath Presenters
Taps ~ Josh Weyand, Enterprise High School
Loved Ones Wreath Placement
Retire the Colors ~ California National Guard
Pete Stiglich is a community and Veteran activist from Cottonwood, California. After 26 years of dedicated service, he retired as a Colonel from the United States Air Force in 2006.
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