Monday, November 21, 2011
Nonprofit Adopt-a-Chaplain organization is now headquartered in Los Gatos.
- HOLIDAY GUIDE 2011
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Not every soldier thinks it’s important to have feminine hygiene products readily available, but to women who serve in the military overseas, those items are as precious as gold. And to Mike McNutt, well, it's just awful that any woman should have to think twice about it. So he takes personal responsibility to see to it that the Bay Area chapter of the Christian organization Adopt-a-Chaplain has plenty of those unmentionables to send out in its care packages. When McNutt, a Vietnam veteran, learned from an active duty female soldier that feminine products—pads and tampons—were in short supply at her base overseas, he marched into the nearest discount store, bought every package of pad and tampon on the shelf and took them to Adopt-a-…
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Operation Yellow Ribbon chairman Michael Frangadakis joins the state reserves in his late 50s.
Just after 9/11, Los Gatos Realtor Michael Frangadakis, 64, went to the U.S. Army recruiting office in San Jose and asked if there was anything an "old soldier from the '60s" could do to help the military as a civilian. A young buck sergeant gave the Vietnam War veteran a puzzled look and asked him his age. When he told him he was 54 years old, the sergeant and others in the room chuckled upon hearing that someone over the 42-age-limit wanted to join the reserves. "Needless to say, I walked out very embarrassed," remembers Frangadakis. But as the country went to war following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, Frangadakis wanted to do something to help the young men and women being deployed to the Middle East. In 2003, he started the…
Monday, July 4, 2011
List of Los Gatos, Monte Sereno soldiers serving in the Middle East grows every year, names to be read during Fourth of July festivities today.
The names listed in this article are of local military personnel serving or who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Their families are from Los Gatos and Monte Sereno and are sponsored by the Los Gatos Rotary Club, the Los Gatos Lions Club and Grateful Citizens. Every Fourth of July, town officials read the names during Los Gatos' day-long Independence Day celebration at the civic center and Los Gatos High School. According to local Realtor Michael Frangadakis, chairman of Operation Yellow Ribbon, the annual tradition shows respect for their sacrifices. This is considered the most poignant part of the festivities, which wind down for a moment at around 1:30 p.m. to have the audience gather in front of Los Gatos High School to say the …
Rev Dr christopher Flesoras
5:44 pm on Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Mike, A great story and a blessed service that you provide our State. The soldiers, their families as well as our veterans are grateful for your service in the CSMR. Hopefully, more will be inspired to offer their time and talent through your example! God bless you as well as those that you serve. more ›