The weekend of June 8th and 9th, the Illinois AMVETS held their annual convention in Springfield.  At the convention, Clinton Post 14, one of its members, and one of its significant contributors were all presented awards for their outstanding help of AMVETS helping veterans and veteran families.

The first award was presented by State Commander Tucker to Post 14 for being the 2018 – 2019 Illinois AMVETS Post of the Year. At Christmas-time for the Illinois AMVETS, Post 14 hosted the “Red Sleigh” program and their joint effort with the other Clinton Veterans organizations provided a holiday meal program. For the reporting year 2019, the Post 14 members contributed over 3,000 hours of volunteerism and community service programs valued at over $50,000.00 to fulfill the AMVET motto of “Veterans helping Veterans.” 

Dennis Davenport as the Post 14 AMVET of the Year as well as a special award for his efforts in support of an Outstanding Service Award Project. Davenport saw the need to help the families of college-bound children and grandchildren of local Veterans and asked that AMVET Post 14 facilitate providing ten $1,000 scholarships for College and Trade School bound graduates. The Post established a Scholarship Committee to develop an application process, judge the applications, and present the awards. 2019 was the second year of the program, which has now touched twenty-one (21), Veteran families. This Scholarship Program has been a huge success, enabling Post 14 to be a part of “Veterans Helping Veterans.”

Finally, Exelon Nuclear and the Clinton Power Station Employees were awarded the AMVETS Outstanding Firm Recognition Award for the Year 2018-19, based on their support of not only the Clinton AMVETS Post 14 but also for helping all area Veterans.