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Air Force Clubs

award $36,000

in scholarships

2

Air Force Inns

Selects Eight

Finalists for

Innkeeper

Award

4

Luke’s CDC Wins

Best in Air Force

6

IMCEA Trade

Show

7

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From Ventura

Foods

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1130 – FSOS – Europe -

Carry Out Programs:

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1300 – Sysco - Best Hiring

Practices

1400 – DUNI Napkins -

Decorative / Festive

Napkin Folding

Techniques for

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1500 – NRA - Lodging

Day 2

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- High Speed Cooking

Methods

1030 – DUNI Meal Service

- Innovation for Carry Out

Programs: Speed,

Durability, Longer Shelf-

Life and No Dripping

1130 – Restaurant Equip-

ment World

1300 – Sysco

1400 – Celebrity Systems -

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place

1500 – Tork - Wipes & Towels for Food Service Operations

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Air Force Clubs award $36,000 in scholarships

By Shannon Carabajal, AFCEC Public Affairs / Published June 28, 2017

T he Air Force Services Activity has

awarded $36,000 in scholarships to

10 Air Force Club members or their family

members.

The 2017 Air Force Club Scholarship

Program offered five scholarships to each

of two groups: traditional and non-

traditional. A traditional entrant is a 2017

high school graduating senior registered at

an accredited college or university. A

nontraditional entrant has received a GED

or graduated from high school and is

currently enrolled or registered at an

accredited college or university.

A panel of judges scored submissions,

written or video essays highlighting a time

when the applicant was tested to live up to

the Air Force core values of integrity first,

service before self and excellence in all we

do. “Every year, I am inspired by the

remarkable Air Force stories told through

the submissions we receive,” said

Jonathan Boyd, AFSVA club operations

branch chief.

This year AFSVA increased the award

amounts and number of awards within

each group. The first-place award winners

in each category receive a $7,000

scholarship; second place, $5,000; third

place, $3,000; fourth place, $2,000; and

honorable mention, $1,000.

There were 135 total submissions.

Congratulations to the winners:

Traditional Group

1st Place: Da'Jahnae D. Provitt, daughter

of Master Sgt. Jessica M. White,

Youngstown Air Force Reserve Station,

Ohio.

2nd Place: Julia H. Sanderson, daughter of

Retired Lt. Col. Jason R. Sanderson,

Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota.

3rd Place: Hannah G. Sugatan, daughter

of Chief Master Sgt. Nathaniel S. Sugatan,

Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

4th Place: Hannah G. Ayre, daughter of Lt.

Col. Christopher L. Ayre, Cannon AFB,

New Mexico.

Honorable Mention: Grace E. Cotton,

daughter of Col. John J. Cotton, Kadena

AB, Japan.

Non-Traditional Group

1st Place: Margaret E. Svabek, spouse of

Senior Master Sgt. Don E. Svabek, Travis

AFB, California.

2nd Place: Staff Sgt. Reynaldo

Perez-Santiago, Vandenberg AFB,

California.

3rd Place: Staff Sgt. Philip A. Harris,

Yokota AB, Japan.

4th Place: Melissa A. Hohn, spouse of

MSgt Michael R. Hohn, Luke AFB,

Arizona.

Honorable Mention: Tech. Sgt. Sirrena A.

Drummond , MacDill AFB, Florida.

For more information about Air Force

Clubs, visit http://www.myairforcelife.com/

clubs/.

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E ight U.S. Air Force installations were

selected as finalists for the Air Force

Innkeeper Award.

The award, managed by the lodging branch of

the Air Force Services Activity, recognizes inns

that provide the best hotel-type lodging and

customer service to Air Force travelers.

“The objective is to encourage innkeepers to

improve their management and operation of Air

Force lodging facilities at the 88 Air Force

installations worldwide, with the ultimate and

intended beneficiary being the customer,” said

Maj. Adam Baker, Air Force

Lodging chief.

Representing the large installa-

tion category, which consists of

286 bed spaces and higher, are

Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona;

Eielson AFB, Alaska; Hurlburt

Field, Florida; and Incirlik AB,

Turkey. Dover AFB, Delaware;

Laughlin AFB, Texas; Mountain

Home AFB, Idaho; and Spangdahlem, AB, Ger-

many, represent the small installations.

Two teams are conducting evaluations in June

with winners to be announced late summer and

honored in November at the Air Force Lodging

Training Summit, MacDill AFB, Florida.

“The program promotes esprit de corps and

affords lodging managers and their teams the

opportunity to showcase mission sustaining

support operations to Air Force leadership,” said

Kevin Norton, AFSVA lodging recapitalization

chief. “The award promotes spirited competition

coupled with many new initiatives being adopted

across the portfolio as they are showcased to

the evaluation teams.”

The award’s emphasis is on celebrating the

success of nominees as they build and sustain

readiness and resiliency among Airmen and

their families, Baker said.

“Rest and relaxation starts with a great stay and

is important to every Airman,” the major said.

“Pushing for and celebrating excellence not only

benefits Air Force Inns, it promotes every family

and traveler having a great stay.”

Air Force Inns Selects Eight Finalists for Innkeeper Award By Steve Warns, AFCEC Public Affairs

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F or many parents, finding quality child care

can be challenging but those at Luke Air

Force Base can be certain their children are

receiving the greatest care. Luke’s Child

Development

Center was

awarded the Air

Force's best

Child Develop-

ment Program of

the Year for

2016.

Luke’s CDC

competed

against 100 other

CDCs across the

Air Force and

this designation

took an above

and

beyond effort of

the whole team.

"This award

validates all of

the hard work that our CDC team delivers day in

and day out," said Matthew Driver, 56th Force

Support

Squadron Airman & Family Services flight chief.

"This award also confirms for our customers that

their children are truly cared for here at the

CDC."

Today the Luke CDC serves about 240 children

ranging from six weeks to five years old in 19

classrooms throughout the year, but it wasn’t

always that way.

“Over the past two years, the Luke CDC has

gone through a major quality transformation,”

Driver said. “Closed classrooms were

re-opened, classrooms and environments were

transformed, the child care waiting list process

was enhanced and program enrollment has

increased by 65 percent.”

Ensuring standards are met at the CDC takes

constant work and dedication.

“We have amazing caregivers who are here to

love and develop every child that comes through

our doors,” said Brenda Ricker, 56th Force

Support Squadron

CDC director.

“We’re working with

children and mold-

ing their future. The

feeling is

priceless.”

Airmen can have

peace of mind

knowing their

children are being

cared for and

continue the Wing

mission– building

the future of air

power.

“As the CDC flight

chief it’s my

pleasure to work

with a team of

ultimate

professionals who genuinely care about our chil-

dren,” Driver said. “Ricker and I shared a com-

mon dream and vision for the CDC and our staff

have run with that dream and made it reality.

The time that I and the CDC team have put into

the facility has been paid back tenfold by the

smiles and laughter of the children who we

serve.”

Luke’s CDC Wins Best in Air Force

By Senior Airman Devante Williams, 56th Fighter Wing Public Affairs

Edna Ruiz, 56th Force Support Squadron child and youth program assistant,

watches children during supper June 7, 2017 at the Child Development Cen-

ter at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. The CDC was recently chosen as the Air

Force’s best Child Development Center of the Year for 2016. (U.S. Air Force

photo by Senior Airman Devante Williams)

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