WFNs,
The following is a partial list of events that the SKs can participate in during the upcoming fraternal year:
4 July - Independence Day Parade in Yorktown
14 July - Tidewater South Installation of Officers
Sep - Color Corps Training (date TBD) - emphasize marching in parades
Fall - Honor Flight (salute veterans when they return from DC)
First Weekend in November - Special Olympics (present Colors/honor participants)
11 Nov - Veteran's Day Parade
End of Nov - Norfolk Christmas Parade
Early Dec - Chesapeake Christmas Parade
Dec - Wreaths Across America
Jan - Color Guard Competition (tentative)
17 March - St Patrick's Day Parade (Oceanview)
April - NATO Parade (Norfolk)
Spring - Daffodil Parade in Gloucester
Spring - Honor Flight (salute veterans when they return from DC)
Spring - Color Corps Training (date TBD) - emphasize posting of the Colors
Memorial Day - Wreath Presentation Ceremony, Virginia Beach
Late May - Armed Forces YMCA Heart for Heroes fishing trip (need knights to assist some of the vets during the fishing trips)
Feast of Corpus Christi - various churches perform Euchartistic Processions and would like SKs in ORD to participate in the processions.
Please coordinate with your successors when planning for the upcoming year and consider participating in these events.
If there are any events I've missed, please let me know.
Vivat Jesus,
Ed Nettleton, Regional Marshal, Tidewater South