LoPresti First Saturday in October

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First Saturday at LoPresti
October 5th - Sebastian Florida (KX26)
http://www.speedmods.com/newsletter/09/fs-reminder-oct.htm

"LoPresti First Saturday on October 3rd, will be a Jerry Yellin, WWII fighter pilot and author of The Blackened Canteen"

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First Saturday is a family and youth event in Sebastian Florida.

EAA Chapter 99 will host a adventure area for future pilots of all ages. Flight simulators with a motion seat, displays and more.

If you have children, grandchildren or are part of a civic group
with a youth component --- Bring them along!


First Saturday Fly-in Event will be held Saturday, October 5th at our new facility in Sebastian. LoPresti Aviation will guest host speaker Jerry Yellin, fighter pilot and author of The Blackened Canteen, at our monthly event & charity breakfast. The full breakfast buffet begins at 9 am with steaming hot cups of coffee and everything from pancakes, eggs, & bacon to fresh fruits and delicious muffins. Breakfast is followed by Jerry’s presentation at 10-11:30 a.m. This month's event will benefit Jerry's personal charity choice, Homeless Family Center. (A $5 donation is requested) And don’t forget to view the LoPresti Fury while you are there.

Meet Jerry and the Homeless Family Center

Jerry was born in Newark, New Jersey on February 15, 1924. He completed high school in June 1941 and was awarded a full scholarship to Rider College in Trenton, NJ. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on Feb. 15, 1942, his 18th birthday and graduated from Luke Field in August, 1943 as a fighter pilot.

He was in combat in the Pacific Theater and Iwo Jima with the 78th Fighter Squadron and participated in the first land based fighter mission over Japan on April 7, 1945 and the last mission of the war on August 14, 1945. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with an Oak Leaf cluster and the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf clusters. He was discharged a Captain in December 1945.


Dan Mathis and Jerry Yellin

Jerry is author of two books, Of War and Weddings and The Blackened Canteen.

Praying for peace beyond borders
On June 20, 1945, just before the end of the war, 123 American bombers took off from the island of Guam for an attack on Shizuoka, a Japanese city at the foot of Mount Fuji, The raid destroyed two-thirds of the city, taking the lives of two thousand of its citizens. Twenty-three American airmen also died when two of their panes collided in mid-air.

That these twenty-three men were enemy soldiers mattered little to one Japanese person, who buried their remains next to the graves of the Shizuoka citizens killed in the attack, and erected a memorial for them there. Many years later, in 1971, another Shizuoka citizen learned of this . He began holding his own ceremony beside the memorial, praying for the souls of the the twenty-three Americans each year on the Saturday closest to June 20. This gradually began to attract local support, and spread among the people as a day of praying for peace. Having campaigned for peace for many years, this beautiful story strikes a deep chord with me. I hope it will become more widely known around the world and inspire other people too.

Yoko Ono -- Imagine Peace.
Homeless
Family Center

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The Homeless Family Center provides Emergency and Transitional Shelter for Homeless Families from Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin, and Okeechobee Counties. Our 4th Street facility can accommodate seven families in the Emergency Shelter and twelve families in the Transitional Shelter which translates into a total of 72 individuals that we may house on any given day. We are more than just a roof overhead as we partner with a dedicated group of individuals to provide services for our clients such as children's programs, employment training, and mental health counseling.

Our Mission is to provide opportunities for homeless families to end homelessness by achieving self-sufficiency through education, living wages, and permanent housing.

Online Donations Here

LoPresti First Saturday is about connecting aviation to modern America.

As a boy, Roy LoPresti hung around airports and airplanes every chance he got. However, what was possible and even common 60 years ago, is neither today. Roy bemoaned the loss of innocence and the lack of places for kids and pilots to meet. So we opened "LeRoy's Cafe" as a place for pilots and the community to "Hang Out". Later we added First Saturday to formally bring the two together once a month with a full breakfast, an interesting topic and a guest speaker. Any proceeds we generate goes to a charity or a worthy cause. In this way we get to give back to the community and provide a place for pilots to gather. Best of all we get to do what Roy wanted most...to share the dream of flight.

PLEASE RSVP
USING THE LINK BELOW.

LoPresti Facility on the East Ramp of KX26
Hangar opens at 9:am with
Coffee and Pancakes
Donations benefit:
"Homeless Family Center".
Tech Talk starts at 10:00am

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