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2025 SCOPE Annual Banquet
Saturday, September 27, 2025
5:00 - 6:00 PM Social Hour
6:00 - 7:00 PM Dinner
7:00 - 8:00 PM Guest Speakers
Cash Bar
Games, Raffles & Auction items
The Banquet Emcee will be Bob Lonsberry:
Bob Lonsberry is a conservative American radio talk show host, columnist, and author. An Army veteran and marathon runner.
He has been a newspaper reporter, columnist, photojournalist and editor, as well as a magazine writer and commentator on radio (Radio talk-show host at WHAM, WSYR, WGY and WAIO) and television and a television reporter and manager. He is the author of The Early Years, a collection of newspaper columns, as well as a collection of essays, and four short novels.
Lonsberry is a native of Canisteo, New York.
Michael Henry is seeking the 2026 GOP Nomination to challenge NY Attorney General Letitia James.
Guest Speaker: John Walsh
John E. Walsh, Jr. is an American television presenter, criminologist, victims' rights activist, and the host/creator of America's Most Wanted. He is known for his anti-crime activism, with which he became involved following the murder of his son, Adam, in 1981.
Walsh was born in Auburn, New York. He graduated from Auburn's Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School and he then attended the University at Buffalo, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.
The Walsh family founded the Adam Walsh Child Resource Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to legislative reform. The centers merged with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), where John Walsh serves on the board of directors.
The Walsh family organized a political campaign to help missing and exploited children; John's and Revé's efforts eventually led to the creation of the Missing Children Act of 1982 and the Missing Children's Assistance Act of 1984.
Walsh continues to testify before Congress and state legislatures on crime, missing children, and victims' rights issues.