Maine Veterans Spotlight 6/16/24

Posted on June 12, 2024 by dmartignetti

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.

Josh Filler- Segments 5 and 6

The phones continue to be open for the final hour of today’s show hosted by Josh Filler. If you didn’t have a chance to chime in, not only will Josh be back hosting the show next Saturday, but he will ALSO be covering for Matt for the WGAN Morning News on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, where there will be PLENTY of time for your calls!

Josh Tabor- Segment 2

Josh Tabor founded an organization called “Maine Girl Dads.”

Find out what his group is about and how they aim to protect young girls from some of the many issues they face in modern society. Josh Filler welcomes him onto the show to discuss the organization in more detail, along with what they are doing.