Mayor, Nancy Gardner, and the City Council of Newport Beach, California proclaims May 13-19, 2012 to be Poppy Week. They honored the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 291 with a proclamation.

Auxiliary members and Officers were on hand to receive the proclamation:
Melveta Mason, Carol Burton and her daughters Morgan, Isabel and Devon, Karen Karanickolas, Auxiliary President Kendall Madsen, Miss Poppy for the 8th year Rachel Heidemann, her mother Deborah Heidemann, Poppy Chairman Margaret Myles, Jan Spriggs, Kim Philhart, and Maggie Nitz