Operation Blue Shield Headed to San Angelo Thursday

UPDATE Nov. 5: Due to predicted inclement weather in Dallas tomorrow, Mrs. Pickens and guests will be unable to travel to San Angelo tomorrow.  The planned meeting for Operation Blue Shield tomorrow and has been cancelled and will be rescheduled soon.  When the new meeting date and time is set, that information will be released in a subsequent press release from SAPD.

The Concho Valley Citizens Care organization, in partnership with the San Angelo Police Department, is sponsoring a meeting about bringing Operation Blue Shield to San Angelo.  The meeting will be held on Thursday November 5, 2015 at 10:30 am in the North Conference Room of the McNease Convention Center, 500 Rio Concho Drive.  The founder and CEO of Operation Blue Shield, Toni Pickens, will be in attendance for the meeting, and a question and answer session will immediately follow the meeting.

Pickens’ charitable and community contributions are vast. She is a founding member of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, serves on the advisory boards of Dallas Habitat for Humanity, the Baylor Health Care System Foundation, Texas Heart Institute, Amergy Bank-Dallas and Oklahoma State University. In addition, Mrs. Pickens serves on the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Steering Committee, the MD Anderson Living Legends Steering Committee, and the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Life Partner/Member.

Operation Blue Shield’s mission is to create, promote and fund programs designed to bring about the progressive change, trust and unity that our communities and our nation so desperately needs. Operation Blue Shield’s outreach programs connect, educate and empower community stakeholders (citizens, local businesses, public officials, non-profits, education, churches, first-responders and law enforcement) in a common goal of positive, forward-thinking social infrastructure changes.  In doing so, we serve to unify these groups in a shared commitment to public safety, increased accessibility to homeownership, an increase in small business, improved education and economic development (jobs).

Please join Concho Valley Citizens Care and the San Angelo Police Department in welcoming Mrs. Pickens and Operation Blue Shield to San Angelo by attending the meeting this Thursday.  If you would like more information about the various programs Operation Blue Shield is involved in please visit www.operationblueshield.com.