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# Agency employees continue Christmas tradition 

By Ken MacNevenDLA Disposition Services

                Battle Creek, Michigan  –              

For more than 30 years, Defense Logistics Agencyemployees and others at the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center have donated timeand money to make Christmas a little brighter for theircommunity.

Working through the Battle Creek, Michigan,Salvation Army, agency employees adopt families to provide Christmas gifts andfood for Christmas feasts. More people were supported in 2015 than last year, atotal of 221 people, according to the DLA coordinator, Tiffany Schmidt of theFamily & Morale, Welfare, and Recreation office operated by DLA InstallationSupport at Battle Creek.  Schmidt said that the 221 people were from 65 families plus 12 veteransliving in the Silver Star apartments at the local Veterans Affairs MedicalCenter.

“The Department of Defense has a long, rich history ofsupporting people around the year, especially over the holidays,” said DLADisposition Services Director Mike Cannon. “That’s especially true for those ofus here in Battle Creek where we have been doing this for many years,” hesaid.

Cannon’s remarks were made at the Salvation Army Center,as cart loads of wrapped gifts and foodstuffs rolled in on carts, all markedwith codes that designated which specific family would receive each cart’scontents.

He was joined by Don Phillips, DLA Installation Supportat Battle Creek’s acting site director. “We’re very proud that the FMWR staffhas played such a central role in organizing this great effort,” Phillipssaid.

The history of involvement of what is nowthe Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center in community giving for Christmas actuallypredates the existence of the Defense Logistics Agency and the center’sexistence as a federal office complex. It goes back to the Korean War when the federalcenter buildings were Percy Jones Army Hospital

Former Percy Jones staffer Connie Snydervisited the center during March 2015 and shared her memories about her work as acivilian broadcaster 63 years ago at the hospital’s radio station, WPJ. She told the story of howshe worked with hospital staff and patients at Christmas time to collect itemsfor the Salvation Army to distribute  to Battle Creek families in need.

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