The Aurora Navy League Council 247 will hold its monthly dinner meeting Tuesday, April 17. The meeting will be held at Grandma’s Table Restaurant, 1700 Douglas Road, Montgomery.
A reception will begin at 5:15 p.m. followed by dinner at 6 p.m.. The dinner includes a choice of three entrees, fish, chicken, or beef, soup or salad, dinner rolls, vegetables, dessert, and nonalcoholic drink. The cost is $20., all-inclusive. Alcoholic drinks can be purchased separately. A fourth, lower cost entree, a dinner salad, may be purchased for $12.. It includes soup, dinner rolls, dessert, and non-alcoholic drink.
The after-dinner speaker will be Larry Olson who will speak on CSI Chicago: My 33 Years of Tracking Down Criminals at the IRS National Forensic Laboratory. The IRS National Forensic Lab in Chicago is the national crime lab for the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, where employees receive evidence collected in tax and financial fraud investigations, and attempt to determine whether crimes have been committed. Captain Olson will describe the functions of the lab, and some of the more interesting cases he has worked in the past 33 years.
You do not need to be a member of the Navy League, or have a reservation, to attend the meeting, the general public is welcome. The Navy League is a civilian organization started by president Teddy Roosevelt to provide civilian support of the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine, and Sea Cadets.
Navy Captain Larry Olson, USN (Ret.) is a Minnesota native who attended the U S Naval Academy 1970-1974 on a nomination from senator Walter F. Mondale Minnesota. He was graduated in 1974 with a degree in chemistry, and married his high school sweetheart, Rebecca Lind, two weeks after graduation.
— Aurora Navy League Council 247