{"id":179,"date":"2025-09-14T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:53:39","slug":"chapter-0682","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/chapters\/area-01\/chapter-0682\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 0682 Peninsula-Newport News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Charter Date:\u00a0<\/strong> 07\/01\/1958<br>\n<strong>Annual Chapter Dues:<\/strong>\u00a0 $8.00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Meeting Information:\u00a0<\/strong> 2nd Monday of the Month, except August and December<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Chapter Officers<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong>President<\/strong> \u2013 Michael Thornton<br>\n<strong>1st Vice President<\/strong> \u2013 Vacant<br>\n<strong>Secretary<\/strong> \u2013 Linda S. Sanders<br>\n<strong>Treasurer<\/strong> \u2013 Margaret W. Keator<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 560px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-186 alignright img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2025\/09\/Virginia-peninsula-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2025\/09\/Virginia-peninsula-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2025\/09\/Virginia-peninsula-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2025\/09\/Virginia-peninsula.jpg 894w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also, the Chapter August and December meetings are scheduled for the annual picnic and holiday luncheon.\u00a0 At least once a quarter, the Chapter plans to hold an evening dinner meeting so that active employees may attend.\u00a0 Morning meetings are held at the Midtown Community Center, 570 McLawhorne Drive, Newport News, VA, at 10:30 AM.\u00a0 Evening meetings are held at 6:00 pm in various locations and are advertised at least a month in advance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd874e3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bd874e3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<p><strong>Chapter Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6446ded elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6446ded\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<ul>\n<li>Schedule speakers at monthly meetings to address issues affecting Federal Retirees, Active Employees, and\/or seniors, and to provide information on community issues and State and Federal Legislation<\/li>\n<li>Publish a monthly newsletter<\/li>\n<li>Participate in area health fairs at local military bases and other federal agencies<\/li>\n<li>Conduct fundraisers for Alzheimer\u2019s Research<\/li>\n<li>Maintain Facebook and website for distribution of Chapter information<\/li>\n<li>Schedule day trips and training sessions for members and guests on topics of interest<\/li>\n<li>Schedule a picnic in August and a holiday luncheon in December with live entertainment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter 0682 Peninsula-Newport News meets the 2nd Monday of the Month, except August and December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":373,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-179","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions\/1008"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}