{"id":11,"date":"2023-12-01T11:33:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:58:36","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NARFE Chapter 0869 Newport County<\/strong><\/span> began in 1963, and provides resources and expertise to help federal employees and annuitants at the local level.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to contact our officers with questions by selecting their title below. If you need to contact a committee chair, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Contact Us<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #000080\"><a style=\"color: #000080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">and we\u2019ll forward the request to the appropriate person. Also please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a> if you would like to volunteer for one of the open positions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our officers are:<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/contact-chapter-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>President<\/strong><\/a>: Ray Cheney<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/contact-chapter-vice-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Vice President<\/strong><\/a>: Don Hood<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/contact-chapter-secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Secretary<\/strong><\/a>: Patricia Pelton<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/contact-chapter-treasurer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Treasurer<\/strong><\/a>: Dave Ferkinhoff<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000\">Committee chairs:<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Alzheimer\u2019s coordinator: John Scott<br>\nCalling Committee: Mary Pedro<br>\nChapter Service Officer: Vacant<br>\nHospitality Committee: Vacant<br>\nPAC Coordinator: Vacant<br>\nSunshine Committee: Mary Pedro<br>\nDescriptions of the committee positions are provided in the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NARFE Officer and Chairperson Descriptions<\/strong><\/span> section of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/resources\/links\/\"><strong>Links<\/strong><\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/contact-chapter-webmaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Webmaster<\/strong><\/a>: Dave Ferkinhoff<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">NARFE Chapter 0869 Newport County<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">is a 501-(C)5 non-profit organization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter 0869 history, and general meeting info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0869\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}