About a half-dozen pups learning to become service animals recently visited the General Carl Spaatz National USAAF Museum in Boyertown. They were accompanied by volunteers and trainers from Tails of Valor, Paws of Honor, a Lehigh County-based organization that provides service animals to veterans.
June 14
Flag Day Ceremony: 2 p.m. at Keystone Villa at Douglassville, Independent Building, 1180 Ben Franklin Hwy East. Speaker is Mark Moore, senior pastor of Glossbrenner UM Church in Mount Joy, who as a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve Chaplain Service. Following 9/11, he was mobilized for military service, serving as deputy command chaplain at the headquarters of the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, and as deputy chaplain in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. Moore continued serving as the reserve assistant to the command chaplain of the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command, rising to the rank of colonel before retiring in 2009. RSVP required; call Tina at 610-385-5000.