Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 6:30AM– 7:00 PM, American Red Cross, Ft. Walton National Night Out, 9111 Sturdevant st. pensacola, FL, 511 Lovejoy rd NW, ft. walton, United States

 John Thomas Winskas Attended Event:

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 6:30AM– 8:00 PM, National Night Out, Ft . Walton , 511 Lovejoy rd NW, American Red Cross, Pensacola, FL 32503, United States

• Jogged to Route 45 bus stop at around 7:15am
• made it to the route 45 bus stop at 7:27am
• Waited for Route 45 bus and got on the Route 45 bus at 7:27am to attend.
• got on the route 43 bus after transfer
• missed copter rd bus stop
• got off the route 43 bus at University pkwy and ninemile rd.
• Jogged to the American Red Cross Pensacola Chapter building- 9111 Sturdevant st. , Pensacola, FL 
• Entered building through what I believe to be the north east entrance to the building (the door opposite the training room).
• Signed into the visitors log next to Terri's office
• looked at the desserts in the kitchen/cafeteria
• None of the desserts I put in the American Red Cross refrigerator to share were eaten.
• took out a veggie tray and put desserts I baked into it
• 1 of the 2 bags containing chocolate cookies & lemon bread
• 5 1x1" pieces of lemon bread
• 3-5 chocolate cookies
• a cup of popcorn
• put 5-7 protein 1/2 balls
• another 5 pieces of lemon shortbread
• put the bag of cinnamon & sugar sweet & salty popcorn in my backpack.
• put what was left of the 10-20 lemon shortbread pieces in my backpack.
• ate the crumbs and the protein bar I made earlier (that had partially turned to crumbs).
• ate a couple lemon bread pieces
• ate a handful of the cinnamon & sugar sweet & salty popcorn (hadn't gone stale yet as it was stored in the American Red Cross Refrigerator
• put my backpack in the conference room
• text Kelly & norm asking if they had a preference of vehicle
• the traverse was mentioned as their preference
• only the Fusion and F-150 were available
• I notified norm & Kelly that only the Fusion and F-150 were available.
• Norm ordered me to load up the national night out touch a truck supplies into the Fusion
• I loaded the cooler, bankers box, american red cross blanket & table into the trunk & back seat of the Fusion.
• I looked at and tried on a few American red cross shirts
• I initially picked a grey shirt but decided the black t-shirt looked better on me.
• I waited in the conference room for norm to arrive 
• Another person showed up and walked around the building with either a service or comfort poodle.
• I ran into them in the cafeteria for a moment when I was getting hot water for my matcha tea
• they took a piece of lemon shortbread from the dessert tray I set out: I was glad someone finally was able to enjoy my baking.
• I also ate a piece of lemon shortbread and maybe a protein 1/2 bite & a chocolate cookie or two.
• I took a nap around 11:00am until 12:15pm as I had not slept the previous night after working out.
• I attended the Escarosa Suicide prevention Coalition meeting from 12:30pm until I fell asleep sometime after 1:00-1:30 pm, as I tried to listen to the meeting but was too tired.
• I woke up at the end of the meeting around 2:00pm
• I ate the rest of my bag of monkfruit & cinnamon sweet & salty popcorn that I made the previous night
• Norm texted me saying he would be at the building to drive me to the Ft. Walton event at 2:45pm.
• Norm arrived 
• norm criticized my pants and instructed me that we would stop at walmart to pick up a pair of dickies
• Norm also ordered me to take 2-3 shirts and to remind him to take 2 stuffed animals from the DAT supply closet before we left after returning from the event.
• we left for the Ft. Walton event after I grabbed another bag of deserts that were in the refrigerator and put them in my backpack.
• Norm quizzed me with a DAT Scenario while I rode in the passenger seat to the event.
• The quiz reaffirmed why the onboarding & observation process is necessary.
• Norm and I stopped at Walmart along the way and norm grabbed a couple pairs of dickies pants and had me try them on to figure out my size
• I used to be a 36x32 loose fit and the 36 x 32 regular fit dickies fit really well with a bit of space to grow.
• norm tried to buy me 2-3 pairs of pants but I refused as 1 pair was enough to be presentable at American red cross events as requested.
• Norm and I arrived at the outdoor Ft. Walton event around 4:00pm
• We unloaded the cooler, bankers box, red American red cross blanket, and table from the American red cross fusion
•  Set up the American Red Cross table & blanket
• set out some of the national night out touch a truck event supplies on the blanket covering the table to give away
• 50 boxes of Crayons
• 50 Pencils
• 10 Composition notebooks
• a couple/ few hundred temporary tattoos
• a couple hundred wrist bands
• 100 glow in the dark wrist bands
• 40-100 multi color touch writing pads
• 1 package of cooling towels
• an organization representative from another tent saw that we didn't have a tent for shade and let us borrow an extra tent they had in their truck.
• I threw out the empty supply bags and water bottles from the american red Cross facility.
• I grabbed a burger, a hotdog, a bag of cheetos and a bag of fritos from the ft. walton sheriffs cookout table.
• I ate the bag of cheetos and put the burger and hotdog in a plastic bag to take home to my dad.
• Norm and I packed up what was left of the supplies and loaded the cooler, bankers box, red american red cross towel, and table into the american red cross fusion.
• We rode back to the american red cross NWFL pensacola chapter building at around 7:00pm.
• I fell asleep took a nap on the ride back to the chapter building.
• We arrived at the American Red Cross NWFL pensacola chapter building at around 8:00pm.
• We unloaded the cooler, bankers box, red american red cross blanket, and table and put them back where they were stored previously.
• I grabbed 2 more american Red Cross shirts per Norm's order earlier that day.
• I took the uneaten desserts that I had made (that had been in the refrigerator over a week to prevent them from being thrown out) and put them in my backpack.
• I was dropped off at home by Norm around 9:00pm but the exact time escapes me. 

I look forward to continuing to volunteer with the american redcross nwfl pensacola chapter