Tag Archives: CalVet Team

PIONEER, TRAILBLAZER: VIRGINIA MAE DAYS WAS ONE OF A KIND AS CALVET DIRECTOR

March 9, 2020 · by · in CalVet Team, History, Minority Veterans, Women Veterans · 1 Comment

NOTE: As we honor women veterans during Women’s History Month, CalVet remembers one of its own. The late Virginia Mae Days served as CalVet’s director from 1975-81, retiring more than a decade before CalVet became a cabinet level department headed by a secretary. Her story, published on CalVet Connect last fall, bears repeating. In a […]

The monumental task behind building the California Veterans Memorial at the Capitol

November 8, 2019 · by · in CalVet Team, Events, History, MyCalVet, Veteran Memorial · Leave a comment

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. The dozens of images etched onto the California Veterans Memorial in downtown Sacramento’s Capitol Park say not only a thousand words, but might also leave visitors with a thousand questions. Who were the men and women depicted on the 28-foot-tall obelisk? Where and when did they […]

Are you ready? MRE Cooking Challenge is July 19th

July 4, 2018 · by · in CalVet Team, Events · Leave a comment

The 2018 MRE Cooking Challenge at the California State Fair is less than two weeks away, and our Secretary wants you to be there for the fun! Learn more about the MRE Cooking Challenge in this video invitation from CalVet Secretary Dr. Vito Imbasciani. Please forgive us for the digital glitch. Poppy, the California State […]

Sacramento’s Mather Veterans Village breaks ground on two new VHHP projects

April 13, 2018 · by · in CalVet Team, Events, Veteran Housing · 1 Comment

The sound of afterburners can be heard throughout the day from the nearby base at Mather Veterans Village in Rancho Cordova. But for the veterans who now call this place home, they’ll be listening to a new sound soon as construction begins on two new projects next door. Luckily for current residents, they have double-paned […]

Veterans Home Staffer Makes A Stellar Discovery

January 16, 2018 · by · in CalVet Team, Veterans Homes · 1 Comment

Last week, CalVet staff member Dana Patchick, of the California Veterans Home in Los Angeles, was featured in the February edition of Astronomy Magazine for a stellar sighting. Patchick located a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus, and was credited with the discovery.  That find earned him naming rights for what is now Patchick 5 (Pa […]