Dorcheat-Bistineau Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution met at the Dorcheat Museum on October 19 th for our annual DAR Day of Service project. The chapter packed birthday cake kits to donate to Joe LeBlanc Food Pantry. The kits contained boxed cake mix, icing, Sprite, candles, and other birthday party items. In September and October they filled out 40 Christmas cards to send to Military Missions in Lexington, Kentucky. The cards will be added to Christmas care packages that are sent to deployed service members each year. Military Missions has website at https://militarymissions.org/. The hostess and speaker for the meeting was Jessica Gorman, Director of the Dorcheat Museum and one of the chapter board members. She explained how to safely clean cemetery headstones with D/2 Biological Cleaner and a soft brush, and how using other methods such as bleach and power washing ruins headstones.

DAR is a volunteer organization dedicated to education, patriotism, and historic preservation. Any woman age 18 years or older who can prove lineal, bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) is eligible to join DAR. For more information, contact them at
dorcheatbistineau@yahoo.com.