It's amazing how much we have accomplished in the few short weeks since we decided to move forward and start an Honor Flight Hub in Columbus, GA. A board of directors has been seated, officer elections held, an application to the Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley was made - and accepted, and a lot of paperwork has now been completed and sent off to The Honor Flight Network for formal petition to join the group.
We have a lot of work ahead of us, but the West Georgia Honor Flight Hub has a great board and an awesome partner in the Community Foundation. Betsy Covington, the Executive Director at the Community Foundation, has already proven herself to be an incredible partner. She understands how to navigate the complexities of operating a non-profit and has provided our board with invaluable insight and advice. The Community Foundation will handle most of our backoffice duties - the accounting, record keeping and administrative tasks that ensure that our donors' resources are used to fulfill our mission of sending WWII Veterans to Washington, D.C. Betsy, her staff and board, have taken a huge load off of our board and have allowed us to get off to an incredibly fast start.
The formal announcement of the formation of the hub will be on Tuesday, May 26th at the meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Columbus. Hopefully by this time we'll have applications printed, PSA's geared up and ready to run on TV and radio, as well as a story ready for the newspaper. By announcing our new organization on the 26th, we will be able to hopefully add to the wave of patriotism that comes from celebrating Memorial Day.
Our website should be up and operating in the next week or so: www.wgahonorflight.org . Special thanks to Reggie Luther and TracSoft for making this happen - again on a lightening quick schedule.
Finally, a word about this blog. I'll be using this blog to not only describe the planning that goes in to conducting an Honor Flight to Washington, but also to let veterans, guardians, volunteers andd families know what's going on. So stay tuned for an exciting ride!
This is a great ptogram, for which I am very grateful. As a WWII veteran, I had little ezpectation of ever visiting Washington to see the National WWII Memorial. Thanks to this great program and to my friend Dan Parker, I have a the opportunity to realize a dream. My grateful thanks to the West Georgia Honor Flight Program, Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley, Inc. and my guradian Dan Parker. Charles Maupin, Columbus, Ga.
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