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Advocate asks Ohio Senate to designate March 9 as '6 triple 8 Central Postal Battalion Day'
Summary
Charlinda Scales, a veteran and executive director of the O Taste Foundation, urged the committee to pass Senate Bill 17 to honor the 6 triple 8 Central Postal Battalion and cited a $6,000,000 kitchen incubator project partially funded by the American Rescue Plan and a grant from Sen. Sherrod Brown.
Charlinda Scales, founder of Mutt Sauce and executive director of the O Taste Foundation, testified in support of Senate Bill 17, a second‑hearing proposal to designate March 9 as '6 triple 8 Central Postal Battalion Day.' Scales told the Ohio Senate Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee that the 6 triple 8 unit — a World War II unit of minority women who ensured delivery of millions of letters to service members — deserves formal recognition.
Scales described the 6 triple 8’s service and the local effort to preserve their legacy, including a kitchen incubator project tied to that history. She said the incubator was a roughly $6,000,000 project funded in part by the American Rescue Plan and a grant from U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown; the incubator supports veteran and minority food entrepreneurs and employs full‑time staff.
“We ensure that their contributions are permanently woven into our nation's history,” Scales said, urging the committee to approve SB 17. Committee members thanked Scales for her testimony and for the economic development benefits the incubator provides; the hearing concluded with no vote recorded and the bill remaining in committee.
Provenance: Topic introduced at SEG 476; testimony spans through SEG 576.
