By Christopher Dresnek
Post 3063 is lucky enough to have a Victory Garden this year thanks to the hard work of Comrades Tiffany Cavin and Anthony Rose.
A Victory Garden is a meant to enhance national food production during war, and their war is on food insecurity. The state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food is what defines food insecurity, and as Comrade Anthony mentioned, it is something his friends and family have dealt with for a long time.
In addition to learning about Victory Gardens and food insecurity, Anthony also learned how to finally grow something besides tomatoes.
Comrade Tiffany will harvest vegetables before meetings
and have them available for pick up. She has tomatoes, corn, various squash, greens and many other tasty veggies to try.
Feel free to talk with her about her passion project, it has been a labor of love and one with which she hopes to spread the message about food insecurity.
Basic Life Saver Course
When Comrade Rose was in the military he was one of his brigade’s BLS (Basic Life Saver) instructors and went on to the same role at Madigan Army Hospital. After he got out of the service it seemed a natural fit to be able to continue using those skills.
He came up with the idea of teaching BLS and making it a fund raiser as a way of giving back to the school who welcomed him so warmly upon his discharge, Seattle Central. The scholarship is named for Anthony Diaz, the school’s Veteran Certification Official, and has raised more than $2,000 so far.
Please contact comrade Comrade Rose at [email protected] to donate to the scholarship or take a future BLS course.