{"id":270,"date":"2004-10-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/article\/women-to-be-honored-during-veterans-homecoming-2004"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"women-to-be-honored-during-veterans-homecoming-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Women To Be Honored During Veterans’ Homecoming 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Branson\/Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce & CVB together with the Branson Veterans’ Task Force welcome all women veterans and active duty military women to Veterans Homecoming Nov. 5 -11, 2004 and plan to honor them during a special day of camaraderie and fun on Nov. 8. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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The purpose of the event is to honor women veterans and active duty military women, and to give them the opportunity to meet other women from around the country who share similar backgrounds and experiences, according to Mary Slivka, chair of the Women Veterans’ Welcoming Committee. The Nov. 8 event will include an 11a.m.<\/ST1:TIME><\/st1:time>luncheon at the Radisson Hotel with guest speaker Brigadier General LaRita Aragon, Air National Guard, who, as a school teacher and single mom, enlisted in the Air National Guard and worked her way up the ranks.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/O:P>
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Following the luncheon, the women in attendance will have the opportunity to Ride the Ducks, visit Stone Hill Winery and tour the American Presidential Museum.Dinner will be held at the Lodge of the Ozarks at 5:15p.m.<\/ST1:TIME><\/st1:time> Several local entertainers are expected to stop by the Lodge of the Ozarks to welcome the women to Branson. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/O:P>
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Branson Veterans Task Force sponsors have donated gifts for the Nov. 8 event which will be given away at the luncheon and dinner.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/O:P>
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For more information on the women veterans welcoming event and to book travel arrangements, please contact Mary Slivka, Inside Sales Coordinator at the Branson Chamber of Commerce and a US Navy veteran at (417) 334-4084 ext. 317.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/O:P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Day-long event is scheduled for women veterans and active duty military women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows-attractions-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}