Operation Blue Shield May Be Coming to San Angelo

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, said a press release Tuesday. This meeting will be held in the North Conference Room of the McNease Convention Center, 500 Rio Concho Drive, on December 14 at 10:30 a.m. Mrs. Toni Pickens, founder and CEO of Operation Blue Shield, will be at the meeting. A question and answer session will immediately follow.

Pickens 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. Additionally, she 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.

According to the press release, 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 in a common goal of positive, forward-thinking social infrastructure changes. They 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.

Citizens are encouraged to attend the meeting and welcome Pickens and Operation Blue Shield to San Angelo. More information is available at www.operationblueshield.com.