Hilltop Times – Hill Air Force Base Weekly Newspaper Since 1948

Roy Gate traffic flow patterns will return Jan. 23 to similar traffic directions as the other gates.

The Hill Air Force Base 4-H Theater Club is holding auditions today, Jan. 5, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Base Theater. Auditions are open for youth in middle school and high school only. Rehearsals will be held throughout January on Mondays and Thursdays from 5:15 p.m. to about 7 or 8 p.m. with the final performances to be held Feb. 1-2. To participate in this original play you must attend the auditions. The Hill AFB Theater Club is a free club for military youth, their friends and other youth with base access.

On Feb. 2, at The Landing (formerly known as Club Hill) a prayer breakfast will be held in conjunction with the National Day of Prayer.

Gen. (Ret.) Robert C. Oaks, former commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Training Command, will keynote the event to begin at 7:30 a.m.

Tickets will be available from the chapel until Jan. 31 and from first sergeants until Jan. 27. Please RSVP by Jan. 30.

The theme of the event is "Faith, Freedom and Prayer."

Cost is $5 per person.

The 75th Medical Group Clinic will be closed on Jan. 16 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The next Warrior Call will be held at The Landing (formerly known as Club Hill) on Jan. 27. Senior Master Sgt. (Ret) Shawn Whitten will be talking about an Airman's experience at Abu Ghraib.

Hill Air Force Base will be accepting applications for a Voluntary Early Retirement Authority/Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay (VERA/VSIP) from Jan. 3 through Jan. 24. Applications will only be accepted through Hill AFB's VERA/VSIP Interactive Program Web site (https://wbhill03.hill.afmc.ds.af.mil/vera_vsip/). Check this web site for more information.

The applicants selected and approved for VERA/VSIP are expected to be off the employment rolls by April 30. It is unknown at this time how many buyouts will be offered.

New Year's Eve Lock In, Dec. 31 will feature activities for ages 9-18. Ring in the New Year among your friends at the Youth Center from 7:45 p.m. on Dec. 31 to 8 a.m. on Jan. 1. Cost is $30 for members and $35 for nonmembers and includes games and activities, pizza and a light breakfast.

The Landing (formerly Club Hill) will be ringing in the New Year from 8 p.m. with hors d'ouvres until 11 p.m., and will include a midnight toast, followed up by a breakfast buffet -- all of this plus a DJ to dance the night away. Cost is $50 per couple, $25 individual, $60 for nonmember couples and $30 for nonmember individual.

Through the Defense Commissary Agency, commissaries at bases everywhere can provide at least one $1,500 scholarship to a qualified applicant at each commissary.

Applications have been available since Dec. 1 and the deadline is Feb. 24 for applications. For more information and to learn how to apply, visit commissaries.com or militaryscholar.org.

Through the Defense Commissary Agency, commissaries at bases everywhere can provide at least one $1,500 scholarship to a qualified applicant at each commissary.

Applications have been available since Dec. 1 and the deadline is Feb. 24 for applications. For more information and to learn how to apply, visit commissaries.com or militaryscholar.org.