COMMANDER’S CORNER

Comrades & Auxiliaries,

February went fast and the club is doing a lot of stuff.

The Taco night is doing great and still a great deal. Thank you Ray!

The pool tournament is a monthly item and is a lot of fun. Thanks Nif!

Burger & Brew is going really good and burgers are fantastic. The beer is also good and cold.

Steak night is happening 2 nights a month.

So come on down and enjoy good food and beverage of choice and have lots of fun.

Bobby Ness had a benefit for Fred & Becky Hackney the 13th of February and it was a great success. Thanks Bobby!

The club will be building on to the kitchen this year and making a pantry and storage this spring.

So that’s what happens in the VFW when we all work together.

The 8-Mile Band will be playing on Snow Rondi, February 27th at 8:00 pm.

Remember to pray for our vets, active service people and their families.

Your Commander

Pat Russell

 

VFW POST OFFICERS

Commander – Pat Russell

Sr. Vice – Jim Dress

Jr. Vice – Francis Richter

Quartermaster - Ray Rozak

Adjutant – Dennis Douglas

Judge Adj – Lynn Schmidt

Chaplain – Rocky Frank

Surgeon – Ron Ness

Officer of the Day – Bill Haggerty

Trustee – Wes Newcomb

Service Off – Mike Youngman

 

AND NOW FROM

“THE LADIES AUXILIARY”

 

Welcome to March!

February was a very busy month. We started out with our Mid-Winter Conference at the 1st of the month. We had a great time and meeting. We went to the Commander’s Homecoming on Friday night at Post 10252 for George Ison. We were all glad to see him as he was in the hospital just a week before with heart problems. He had five stints put in and still made it to the Mid-Winter. You can’t keep our Department Commander down!

We had our meetings on Saturday and everything was good. We went through the minutes of the previous convention of June 2009 in Fairbanks along with our Treasurers report. Then discussed old and new business, etc. Our program chairman reported on what was happening and how everyone is doing. If you have any reports, lets get them in.

We had a very successful Benefit for the Hackneys with a spaghetti feed and auction. Thanks to those who were able to help and for all the donations given for the auction. Special thank you to Geri Eskelson & Lori Sullivan for helping me cook the spaghetti sauce with meatballs and sausage. Thanks to Fred Eddy for being the auctioneer.

And thank you Ray & Pat for your help. Special Thanks to Pat for helping me clean up the dishes at the end of the evening. Thank you Ron for letting me dedicate my day to this project. I Love You!

I hope everyone had an enjoyable time.

Have you been back to the kitchen lately? It’s looking pretty good thanks to the following:

Di Griner, Mary Bartlett, Sandy Dress, June Picard, Brenda Repp, Nancy Alex Schmoker, Marcia Doner, Bettyann Steciw and her kids Fawna, Anna, Billy, Julianna, Shelly & Cory and myself. We worked a couple of days on getting everything up to par. We still need to keep working on it but overall it is looking lots better. Lets all pitch in to keep it clean and if you do any cooking back there, please clean up after yourself.

Thanks Connie & Andy for letting us use the shelf unit. It has made a bid difference on having a place to put everything.

We will be getting a new pantry and storage room this spring to store all our kitchen items and extra papers that we need to keep. I should help make everything a lot better.

You should get this before the end of the month so things happening for Snow Rondi will be the Parade on the 27th with 8-Mile Band playing at 8:00 pm. Come march with us in the parade and dance the evening away. There will be finger foods to snack on in the evening. On Sunday we are having our Fish Fry starting at 4pm. Ladies, if you could bring something for Saturday night and Sunday for the Fish Fry it would really help.

We are having our Steak Night on Sat., March 6th. On the 20th we will be having a Pig Roast sponsored by Steve & Chris Calebreese from BBQ-TO-GO.  If you haven’t been to one of their BBQ’s your missing a fantastic meal.

St. Patrick’s Day is on Wednesday, the 17th. We will be serving Corned Beef and Cabbage starting at 5:00 pm. Come in and celebrate with us.

The Fish Fry is on the 28th of the month, and don’t forget Monday night Tacos and Friday Burger & Brew every week.

 

Four of our sisters received awards at the Anchor Point Chamber of Commerce. Margie Youngman received the Citizen of the Year Award, Vi Hall received the Senior Citizen of the Year Award, Geri Eskelson received the Employee of the Year Award and Theresa Bicondova received the Business of the Year Award. Way to go sisters. We love you!

The end of the season is coming up quick for those who are in post and auxiliary offices. Do you want to run for an office? Let us know so we can put your name in the hat. We will be starting things at our March meeting and voting on them in the April meeting. Our installation for officers is on Memorial weekend, May 30th. New auxiliary members, we need you too!
Do you know anyone who would like to become a member of the Ladies Auxiliary, be sure and get them an application to join!

 

Hope to see you at the Post!

Until next month, Bobby Ness

Ladies Auxiliary President & News Editor

 

 

Identification Statement:

 

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Virl Pa Haga Memorial

Veterans of Foreign War

PO Box 374

Anchor Point, AK 99556-0374

 

 

LADIES AUXILIARY OFFICERS

President – Bobby Ness

Sr. Vice – Nif Henley

Jr. Vice – Patty Eddy

Treasurer – Di Griner

Chaplain – June Picard

Secretary – Carol Inman

Trustee – Margie Youngman

 

Men’s Auxiliary

You need to think about next years officers. The Election of Officers is in April and the Installation of Officers is in May. Do you want to run for office? Lets keep our Men’s Auxiliary going strong. Join in!

 

Men’s Auxiliary

President – Ken DeFrancesco

Sr. Vice – Andy Boyle

Jr. Vice – R.J. Austin

Sec/Treas – Tom Repp

Chaplain – Greg Alman

Trustee – George Buss

If your birthday is not listed here, please let me know and I will put it on my calendar!

Bobby 235-1287 or email me at: scuby@alaska.net

 

Birthdays in “March ”

Janet McCormick – 2nd

Lori Frasier – 7th

Peggy Schmidt – 8th

Barbara Keys – 16th

Jim Dress – 17th

Debbie Kratsas – 19th

Sue Williams – 21st

Peggy Campbell – 22nd

Herb Downs – 25th

Charlie Dinwiddie – 28th

 

 

POST MEETING

DATE:

March 14,  2010

    4:00 House Committee

    5:00 Men’s Auxiliary

    6:00 Post Meeting and Ladies Auxiliary

 

Daylight Savings Time Begin

Sunday, March 14th

Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead one hour so your not late for the meetings.

 

 

 

Join Us for

“STEAK NITE”

March 6th

6-8 PM

Bring your friends

And Family

 

We are having a FISH FRY

When: Sunday, March 28th              

Where: VFW Post 10221

Time: 4-6 pm

Come join us for

Halibut Chunks

French Fries, Salad

& Desserts

All you can eat!!!!

 

 

 

CRYPTOQUOTE

 

A X Y D L B A A X R

Is LONGFELLOW

One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three L’s, X for the two O’s, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints.  

Hint for below quote: K is the letter I and V is the letter G.              

 

 

A S J   L I D S O I   P J D D I P P T J U   Z Q I   O S O I M Z  

 

 

A S J   P Z F G Z   O S R K M V   Z S H F G Y   F  

 

 

H S G Z Q H Q K U I   V S F U.  

 

 

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MARINE CORPS LEAGUE

K-Bay Marines

Detachment 838

 

Join the Marine Corps League!

Meetings 2nd Sunday

@ 2:00 pm

At VFW #10221

ONCE A MARINE-

ALWAYS A MARINE

TACO NIGHT

 

Every Monday

5 – 7 pm

 

 

Burgers & Brew

Friday Nights

5:00 – 7:30 pm

 

And Now From Our

Senior Vice

 

Hello Sisters

 

Wow is this - could this- oh it can't be. Yep I know it's too early for spring break up but my words would be WOW what beautiful weather we are having for the end of February. For those snow bird sisters - we had 45 degree weather this last weekend and it just put a big hitch in my giddy up!! Did you know that one of our very own sisters won a pretty awesome award? The Anchor Point Chamber of Commerce puts on a Community Awards Ceremony each year and our very own Sister Margie Youngman took one home this year. Margie was honored with the Citizen of the Year award and it is very deserving of her. Congrates Margie!!

Mid Winter Conference was held at Anchorage VFW Post 1685 this year. The meetings were all held at the Millennium which made it convenient. It was great to see all the sisters I seem to only see maybe once a year twice if I am lucky. We were entertained by the ROTC kids from Bethel doing one of their dance routines(I am not sure I would call it a routine I know there is a correct word to use out there somewhere and if I would have remembered to write it down I would have gotten it correct) Uffda!! They did a great job with all their moves and stomping of their feet.  I always leave learning something new and this year was an opener. One of the special guests was the VOD winner of Alaska. Wow - This gal - you all would have been so proud of. She was quite a speaker and it was a true pleasure to be able to sit and listen to her words and comforting to know that there are youth out there that do know and keep it to heart what our veterans do. I am so proud. Sitting through all of the guest speakers and listening to their speeches put me back into perspective and gave me a true reminder why I am here. Convention is in Eagle River this year so if anyone is able to go, let's start thinking of it now so we can do some fun-raising get it "FUN" raising. There weren't a lot of Buddy Poppy displays this year but the ones that were present were very impressive. A challenge for next year - Buddy Poppy display. Hmmmmm

 

I would like to take a moment and recognize all of the kitchen cleaners that were able to put time in our kitchen and make it sparkle. Thank you thank you!! Also a thank you to all who are keeping the kitchen to continue to sparkle. Keep up all the good work.

 

God bless our Veterans and our troops and their families.

 

Jennifer "Nif" Henley

Senior Vice Ladies Aux

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer to Cryptoquote

 

You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.   ____ Samuel Johnson

 

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Contact the Post

at 235-4101 or 235-5582

or Bobby at 235-1287

 

We Have A “Web Site”

thanks to Tom Repp.

He has been putting together our Post Web Site.

Visit us at http://www.vfwpost10221.org

You will find our monthly newsletter on the web site, so if you want to receive our newsletter via the web sight and not by mail, please let me know. You can email me at bobby.ness@vfwpost10221.com

Check us out and see what we are doing!!!

 

When against one’s will, one is highly pressured into making a hurried decision, the best answer is always “No,” because “No” is more easily changed to “Yes” than “Yes” is changed to “No.”

___Charles Nielson

 

A final thought…

Those who are slowest in making promises are often the most faithful in keeping them.

___John Jennings