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Veterans Advisory Committee <br />Minutes December 8, 2020 <br />Page 12 <br />Chair Doolittle: Who's Kelcie? <br />Lewis: Kelcie Figueira, she's basically running that office right now. <br />Brittany Iyo: Deb, does anyone have contact information for her? <br />Lewis: Yes, you want me to send that to you? <br />Iyo: Please. <br />Lewis: Or send me a note to send you her contact information. <br />Iyo: Ok, thank you. <br />ANNOUNCEMENTS <br />Chair Doolittle: Do we have any announcements? <br />Hanato: Minoru Hanato, I'd like to request of the County to provide the small hand flags, <br />4 by 6 hand flags for the columbaria. Right now, they are providing the 12 by 14 flags for <br />the ground interment. But the columbarium we put the large flags and it looks terrible and <br />it falls down because the spaces are very small. Normally the County provides bigger <br />flags for all the cemeteries and they've been doing a great job. But because all of the new <br />columbarium that are in Hilo and Kona, it'd be better if we put the small flags in the <br />vases that are on the columbarium. <br />Director Messina: What size was that again you were asking about? <br />Hanato: the flag size is 4 by 6, the small one. The one we pass out during the parade. <br />Director Messina: Alright, sounds good. We'll take care of it. <br />Hanato: Another announcement, on the Kona side. On the 19th of this month were going <br />to have Wreaths Across America. Set up starts at 8:00 and the program starts at 9:00. All <br />the organizations, whoever can come down to represent each military service. They put <br />the wreath on every grave. This will be run by the DAV in Kona. But all the <br />organizations help and it's really good, really nice. <br />Lewis: We've received the additional wreaths. We don't request separate wreaths but if <br />there were any leftovers, we've received those in the past. <br />Hanato: Thank you that. Another announcement just before Veterans Day our honor <br />guard, the DAV, American Legion and the Boys Scouts went in and put in 6 -inch pipes <br />right next to the headstones all at the very corner which is everyone is at the same place, <br />so it looks uniform. On Veterans Day the Boys Scouts and Cub Scouts came out and put <br />the flags, when they put the flags in there, it was done within half an hour. It made a real <br />