News Release

WARSAW — The Agnes Pruyn Chapman Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution met at noon Tuesday, June 24, at the Pizza Hut East in Warsaw.

The speaker was Sgt. Doug Light from the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department. He has been in law enforcement since the age of 22 and retired from the Warsaw City Police Department prior to being employed with the Sheriff’s Department as the public relations officer. He also teaches the DARE program in the public schools and is a school resource officer. There are approximately 130 employees in the Sheriff’s Department. They handled 2,000 service calls last month.

The Sheriff’s Department is also responsible for the jail, the Work Release Center and the community corrections program, which is monitoring with an ankle bracelet. The Work Release Center is growing its own garden this summer. JCAP, which stands for Jail Chemical Addiction Program, has about a 90% success rate. These and other programs try to help inmates make better decisions for their future.

Regent Kathy Gawthrop opened the business meeting by leading with the DAR opening rituals and reading the president general’s message. She gave the national defense report on drone flights and sightings, which showed a lack of security in some areas.

A number of award certificates were shown that the chapter earned this past year, which were handed out in May at the state convention. The group received a couple of thank-you notes and Liberty Tree invitations, which were passed around. Also, district meetings will be coming up in August for anyone who is interested.

Maureen Mauzy announced that a chapter member, Linda Stroup, passed away and services would be at Otterbein Methodist Church in Atwood.

DAR membership is open to all women who can prove an ancestor fought in or gave aid to the patriots’ cause during the American Revolutionary War. For more information, visit the DAR website at dar.org.