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Whitehall Food Pantry stocked for Holiday Season thanks to CAP

(Whitehall, OH) Area food pantries have seen an increase in need in recent months, but thanks to the local Civil Air Patrol unit, the Whitehall Community Food Pantry received much needed food items to restock their shelves. With over 1,000 food items collected during their 10th Annual Halloween Food Drive, cadets and officers restocked the shelves over the weekend of November 29th.

Says Major Lisa Warner, CAP, “One of our core values in CAP is service to others. We give back to our community in any way we can. If it’s cleaning up parks and streets to make them safer or helping those who are less fortunate than ourselves, this is what we try to instill in our cadets: honor, pride, and a commitment to others in our community, state and nation.�

The CAP Cadet Program focuses on Leadership, Character Building, Physical Fitness, and Aerospace Education. As cadets progress through the 16 achievement levels they earn increased cadet rank, awards, decorations, eligibility for national and international activities and the opportunity for flight and academic scholarships.

The Civil Air Patrol was founded on December 1, 1941, less than a week before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into World War II. CAP, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with more than 55,000 members nationwide. CAP performs 95 percent of inland search and rescue missions, as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center, and was credited by the AFRCC with saving 58 lives in 2006. Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counterdrug missions at the request of federal, state, and local agencies. Members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to the more than 22,000 young people currently participating in the CAP Cadet Program.

The Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker Composite Squadron meets every Tuesday night from 6:30-9:00 PM at the Whitehall Community Park, 430 N. Hamilton Rd., Whitehall OH 43213. Visitors are encouraged to attend!

There are more than 1300 members in Ohio.

For more information about volunteer opportunities with the Civil Air Patrol, call 1-800-FLY-2338 or
2nd Lt. John C. Morgan, CAP at 740-625-6475. Information can also be found on the web at www.gocivilairpatrol.com

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