New Year’s Greetings to Sunshine Chapter Members!

New Year’s Greetings to Sunshine Chapter Members!
I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday season. By now, you are probably ‘recovered’ from the holidays and are back in full swing with your normal activities. The Sunshine Chapter Executive Committee is already gearing up for another busy year in support of Soldiers. As always, your support and participation in our chapter’s activities is most appreciated!

Since my last message, our Chapter has conducted or participated in a number of events. In October, several of our members attended the AUSA Annual Meeting in
Washington, DC. We conducted Operation Holiday Cheer in November where we, thanks to the generosity of individual and corporate members, packaged and
mailed to deployed Soldiers nearly 300 holiday care packages filled with food and comfort items. We have already received a number of thank you letters and
photos from deployed Soldiers who received our packages. Thanks to all of you who contributed items or funds to offset postage or provided assistance in
packaging these times – your help made this event a huge success! Special thanks to Uno’s Pizzeria who held a “Dough Raiser” event to assist the chapter
with funding for postage for these packages! Also in November, we held a General Membership Meeting at the Citrus Club with GEN (Ret.) Gordon R.
Sullivan, AUSA President and COO, as our Guest Speaker. I am pleased to announce that he has already committed to returning next November!

Upcoming events include: Scholarship Golf Tournament on 7 March, Armed Forces Appreciation Night in May, and the Army Ball in June. We are also working to schedule our next General Membership Meeting in the February/March timeframe. Please check the chapter website at http://www.ausa-sunshine.org for more
details and please participate in our chapter events.
Thanks again for your support to our chapter and to our Soldier community. As always, please keep all of our men and women in uniform in your thoughts and
prayers. Have a Safe and Happy 2008!

Jim Taylor
Serving our Central Florida Soldier Community