Walker District 6 Legionnaire of the Year

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Sunbury’s Col. Ben­son W. Hough Post 457 of the Amer­i­can Legion was recently noti­fied that post mem­ber Kim Walker was selected as Ohio Dis­trict 6 Legion­naire of the Year, an honor awarded annu­ally to one Dis­trict 6 Amer­i­can Legion mem­ber who has demon­strated out­stand­ing ser­vice to their local post and their community.

Walker cur­rently serves as the Post 457 Buck­eye Boys State and Buck­eye Girls State chair­man, as well as chair­ing the Post 457 Fund-Raising Com­mit­tee; and Walker was instru­men­tal in help­ing the post mem­ber­ship estab­lish the Ohio War­riors Schol­ar­ship Fund that awards schol­ar­ship money to col­lege stu­dents who have had a par­ent killed in the war on terror.

Walker is also the post’s Sunbury/Big Wal­nut Area Cham­ber of Com­merce rep­re­sen­ta­tive, and par­tic­i­pates in many other local com­mu­nity groups.

Kim Walker and her hus­band Mark are active in their church and are lead­ers in the Young Life Chris­t­ian fel­low­ship groups in the Big Wal­nut, West­er­ville and Olen­tangy school districts.

Walker served in the U.S. Air Force for nine years, and was hon­or­ably dis­charged with the rank of Cap­tain. Her pri­mary duties while serv­ing involved com­mu­ni­ca­tion satel­lite con­trol dur­ing Desert Storm, space sys­tem train­ing and other clas­si­fied satel­lite activities.

The Amer­i­can Legion Depart­ment of Ohio is divided into 14 dis­tricts. Dis­trict 6 con­sists of Delaware, Knox, Lick­ing, Madi­son, Mor­row and Union counties.

Dis­trict 6 has been rec­og­nized as one of the most active Amer­i­can Legion dis­tricts in the State of Ohio. Sev­eral mem­bers of the dis­trict have advanced to state and national offices.

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