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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes May 25, 2021 Page 15 Chair Doolittle: Maybe we then should order a second one for the West Hawaii. I think that would be appropriate. I don't want to just concentrate on the Hilo side. This is an island committee. Mabel can only arrange things on this side of the island. Can you arrange that for us, Marcie? Brinkley: Yeah, I can do that. Also, I wanted to say, Antonio said the various groups are going to gather at 8:00 am that morning on the 31st at West Hawaii to set up and put out chairs and telescoping poles and all that. So if anybody knows people on this side who would like to help out. HGEA is going to make leis and boys scouts are going to put out wreaths and flowers. It's going to be very nice. Lewis: On this side Waiakea High School is doing their leis again. Chair Doolittle: Any more announcements? Johnny: Mike, this is Johnny. There's a motorcycle Memorial Day Poker Run for the Midnight Riders. That's this weekend, May 29th. I just felt it was important because this organization, they just went to PTA, and they had about $2,000 worth of donations that they received that they were able to feed all the Marines and soldiers there. So they have a Poker Run this Saturday starting at 10:00 am (inaudible) in Kona and it's going to end at the Elks Lodge in Kona as well. It's a great organization, me being a motorcycle guy, I try go on the runs as much as possible. Chair Doolittle: I saw a big component of motorcycle, hot rods and classic cars on Sunday as I was going to green waste. Hiduchick-Nakayama: Yeah, that was our Ali' i run. If you guys are good with that, I can continue to share it with the group. I can probably just email it out once I get the information. Chair Doolittle: Please do. Lewis: That'd be great, Johnny. Then we can post wherever too. Chair Doolittle: Any additional comments, announcements, anything to add. Pomaika'i Bartolome: Hi, this is Pomai. I just wanted to add, I wanted to thank Colonel Deb Lewis for being willing and able to bring a vision to fruition through video that we are going to be sharing here at the Mayor's office through our social media handles and also through our website for Memorial Day. If you have a couple minutes, I wanted to share that with all of you before we leave the meeting today. Chair Doolittle: The floor is yours. Bartolome: Awesome, so I will get this video together and share my screen. Can you see the screen?