RETIREE’S QUALIFYING DAY
The CCLEOANC held the HR-218 Class on Sunday, June 12, 2022 starting at 3pm and the students didn’t leave until after 11 pm!
We had 6 students last year (our 1st year) and we had 17 to attend this year! The break down was: 9 CCLEOA Members and 8 Visitors. Of those Visitors, we had 2 from Wilson County that traveled for more than 2 hours to attend. Some of their comments were, “This place is really NICE!” ; “If we didn’t live so far away, I’d join this Association!” ; “You guys are trying to DO a lot of things; you must have some members that have been here for a long time.” At that comment, our secretary, Cathy Judge, directed them to our Lifetime Members Plaque on the wall and they walked around and looked at everything on the walls! They even commented on how nice & clean we had the place! Then, comparing us to another LEOA, one of them said that when he goes into that one he fells like “wearing a hazmat suit because of the MOLD- You feel it crawling up all over you in there!”
As others entered, you could see the change on their faces, from the tense driver who was paying attention to everything around you to going into a nicely air conditioned, clean building of smiling faces and people saying, “Hello, glad you made it.”