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Maine Veterans Spotlight 6/16/24

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Maine Veterans Spotlight 6/16/24

Episode 4: We’ll talk to a former Olympic athlete who’s providing much needed services and outdoor recreation for our veterans Kristina Sabasteanski she’s the director of veterans adaptive sports and you’re going to want to hear her story also today we’ll be talking to Amy Lainoff, Amy is the director of veteran and military student services at Southern Maine Community College and this is the 4th consecutive year that SMC has been named a military friendly school and for the first time SNCC received the gold award designation we’ll find out what all that means coming up we’ll also be talking to Sergeant first class Elijah Anderson Sergeant first class Anderson is a recruiter with the Maine Army National Guard and we’ll round out the show today with a gentleman who is a Vietnam era veteran spent some time in the Maine Army National Guard and currently volunteers his time as the vice chairman of the board for the national nonprofit based here in Maine Wreaths Across America that’s Mike Edgecomb.

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