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ARCADIA, Fla. (KT) — Kentucky native Chuck Poe can identify with a familiar television advertisement that says “we know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two.”

And so young Princess Elizabeth, though heir to the throne, volunteered for military service in the Second World War, and worked in the maintenance of military vehicles. The woman who had the hefty crown placed on her head also knew how to change oil, repair a broken fanbelt, and get the dirt from under her fingernails.

Volunteers serve food for needy families every day in the basement of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Elgin. A startlingly multicultural collection of local churches and civic groups use the kitchen to help those in need.

It was Queen Victoria, Elizabeth’s great-great grandmother who most eloquently expressed the importance of leaders seeing God as transcendent and sowed the idea into her family heritage. Victoria once told a preacher that she wished Christ would come in her lifetime. “Why?” asked the minister. “Because I should like to lay my crown at His feet, she replied.”

Historic Landmarks Commission gets presentation of heritage document tracking social, business and building development and evolution, including discrimination challenges