Edition No. 93
Arts and Culture
Detroit Harvest Fest & Food Truck Rally will be lining the Dequindre Cut from Jefferson to Wilkins with 50 fantastic food trucks!
Community and Family
Less than one ten-thousandth of one percent of the over 200 million people who have joined the Boy Scout ranks since 1910 have been honored with the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. A War Memorial board member is now one of them!
Detroit Harvest Fest & Food Truck Rally
The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy welcomes guests to its Detroit Harvest Fest & Food Truck Rally October 1 and 2, 11 a.m. until 8 p.m.
The event will feature 50+ food trucks, six music stages and fun activities for the kids including free inflatables, mask-making with Arts & Scrapes, character meet and greets, computer coding and STEM education with Code Ninjas, DNR Outdoor Adventure Center will be featuring reptiles and amphibians and so much more. Families can even get a head start on trick-or-treating and pumpkin decorating!
New this year for adults, Cirque De Freight Yard at the Dequindre Cut Freight Yard will feature buskers, tarot card readers, great cocktails and a live music stage.
Admission at the gate is $5 for ages 3-64 and free for those under three, active or retired service members and older adults over 65.
The Dequindre Cut is located between Orleans Street and St. Aubin Street and runs from Mack Avenue to Atwater Street at the riverfront. The event will run from Woodbridge Ave to Wilkins on the Dequindre Cut. Learn more are the button below!
War Memorial board member, Air Force general, recognized as Distinguished Eagle Scout
During the Sept. 20 On My Honor Gala at the Troy Marriott hotel, Brig. Gen. Rolf Mammen was presented with the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award by The Boy Scouts of America Michigan Crossroads Council. The War Memorial board member was recognized along with former Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite. The award acknowledges Eagle Scouts who have received extraordinary national-level recognition, fame, or demonstrated eminence within their field, and have a strong record of voluntary service to their community.
“I’ve been a student of leadership my entire life,” Mammen said at the gala. “Every day, even today as a general officer of a large organization, I’m still a student of leadership. I have mentors out there that I listen to and talk with regularly.”
Mammen is commander of the 127th Wing at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township. He has been on The War Memorial Association Board of Directors since 2013.
In his remarks, the one-star general thanked War Memorial Board Chair Donna Hoban, Board Secretary Mary Lamparter and Ron Lamparter, and President and CEO Charles Burke, all who attended the gala.
Notable Distinguished Eagle Scout honorees include President Gerald R. Ford, Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, and film director Steven Spielberg.
Growing up, Mammen was in Troop 34 out of Ferry Elementary School in Grosse Pointe Woods. He was in Boy Scouts from 1976-1982, until he graduated from Grosse Pointe North High School.
To read more about Mammen and the honor, visit the link at the button below.
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