2024 VBREA Annual Meeting at Meyera E. Oberndorf Library November 20, 2024
The VBREA Annual Meeting was held on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at the Meyera E. Oberndorf Library. Our guest speaker this year was Clara Hudson, Support Services Administrator with Virginia Beach Public Libraries Digital Services. Ms. Hudson demonstrated how to access the VBPL digital library. The online link is as follows: https://libraries.virginiabeach.gov/books-more/digital-library
Elections were also held during this meeting. This year's elections were for VBREA At-Large Director positions (5). Congratulations to the following who were elected to serve a two year term 2025-2026:
Keith Bernstein Nancy Moore Cathy Morse Kathy Smith Margaret Sullivan-Rucka
A state of the organization was presented by the VBREA Board and committee chairs. A PDF of this presentation is provided below:
2024 VBREA Annual Picnic at Virginia Beach Farmers Market June 12, 2024
2024 April General Membership Meeting at Dockside Restaurant
2023 VBREA Holiday Luncheon
The 2023 VBREA Holiday Luncheon was held on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, at the Virginia Beach National Golf Club. It was great to celebrate the holiday season with friends and former coworkers. Check out the slideshow below to see how a great time was held by all who attended!
2023 VBREA Annual Meeting
The VBREA Annual Meeting was held on Wednesday, November 15, 2023, at Haygood United Methodist Church. We were honored to have Paul Neudigate, Police Chief of the Virginia Beach Police Department, as our guest speaker. Chief Neudigate provided the following link to the VBPD Department Data website where annual and weekly reports about the state of policing in Virginia Beach are available to view. The link is: https://police.virginiabeach.gov/your-vbpd/department-data Elections were also held during this meeting. Congratulations to the following who were elected to serve a two year term 2024-2025:
President: Pete Leavitt Vice President: Joelle Talbot Secretary: Louise Pesnicak Treasurer: Donna Brehm
A state of the organization was presented by the VBREA Board and committee chairs. A PDF of this presentation is provided below:
The 2023 VBREA Annual Picnic was held on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at the Virginia Beach Farmers Market. It was great to catch up with former co-workers and friends! Several lucky members even went home with some fantastic door prizes! The picnic was catered by Pollards. A great big thank you to the VBREA Involvement Committee for organizing another great event!!
2022 VBREA Annual Holiday Luncheon
The 2022 VBREA Annual Holiday Luncheon was held on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, at the VB National Golf Club. The food was fabulous, visiting with fellow CVB retirees was enjoyable, and everyone went home with a door prize . . . some even went home with two!! A GREAT time was had by all! A very big thank you to the VBREA Involvement Committee for putting together another successful event!
2022 VBREA Annual Meeting
The 2022 VBREA Annual Meeting was held Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at Haygood United Methodist Church at 4713 Haygood Road, at 10:00 a.m. The nomination committee nominated and the membership voted in the following At-Large Directors for the 2023-2024 term: Twila Leavitt Nancy Moore Cathy Morse Two At-Large Directors remain vacant. Please consider volunteering and help to keep VBREA active!!
The annual state of the organization presentation was made. The Power Point presentation can be accessed by clicking the following link:
2022 donations approved by the Board to be distributed as follows: United Way for the 5/31 Tragedy Fund $500.00 Project Lifesaver $250.00 Senior Services $250.00
VBREA Annual Picnic June 15, 2022
The 2022 VBREA Annual Picnic was held at the Military Aviation Museum in Pungo. Lunch was catered by Pollards. The majority of our members who attended stayed to tour the museum. Many thanks to the Involvement Committee for organizing a fantastic event!