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American Legion Berryhill Post 165 |
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Berryhill Post 165
September 2008 newsletter
Not receiving your newsletter via email. Send your email address, with member # & your name to Post 165 Adjutant Pat Hanley at theamericanlegion-post165@charter.net.We’re back!! The newsletter staff took the month of August on vacation. You can expect to see this newsletter sent via email around the 25th of each month for the upcoming month. Commander’s Corner: I have been working these past several months with your Post Executive Committee and Building Corporation to address present & future needs at Berryhill Post 165. I will soon be meeting with our Long Range Planning Committee (Nels Cronkright, Wilson Coomer, Steve Tracy and myself) to look at future needs of our membership. I will also be naming chairpersons and staffing committees for the balance of the year. If you are interested in serving on a committee at Berryhill Post 165 please call Adjutant Pat Hanley at (989)488-2025. I will also be having Hanley call our newer members, from all "war eras", with the intention of directly asking for your assistance in this matter of committee work as well as for the express intention of boosting meeting attendance. Thank you again for re-electing me to be your Commander. Please consider helping me to serve Berryhill Post 165, The American Legion to the best of my ability. Chuck Kaminski (989) 662-0263 VA HOSPITAL BINGO In 2008, Berryhill Legion members have been to the VA hospital in Saginaw this year in January, March, April & June to hold a bingo for the infirmed. I’ve had the honor to go twice this year on this excursion. To see the looks on the faces of those hospitalized and to hear their words of appreciation for our time spent with them, is something you should experience. The Auxiliary went to the hospital in May & will be going again on Wednesday, September 17. Call Deb Northrup at (989) 915-9479 for time & commitment. If you are interested in helping with VA hospital bingo in 2009 please call Steve Tracy at 989-835-3733, as we will begin assembling teams and setting dates. New Legionnaires Berryhill Legionnaire membership goal for the 2008-2009 membership year is 718 members. As of Thursday, August 27, we have 420 paid Legion members, which is 58% of our goal. This number includes 3 new members Cathi Sue Johnson (active duty Army), Eric D. Bailey (Vietnam/Army), Randall L. Hock (Vietnam/Navy) & 1 transfer Larry A. Patton (Vietnam/Air Force). Please welcome these new members to Berryhill Post 165. CALENDAR Bingo (every Monday evening 5:00 to 9:00) Burger night (every Thursday 5:00 to 7:30) Open Euchre (every Wednesday 1:00 pm) Euchre (every Thursday 6:30 pm)(see note on page 2) Trivia Night (every 2nd and 4th Tuesday in Patio Room at 7:30) ---- September Events ----September 3 Legion meeting 7:30 Auxiliary meeting 7:30 SAL meeting 7:30 ---- October 11 Harvest Dinner – 4 pm to 8 pm (See details on page 3 in SAL News) October 31 SAL Annual Raffle at Halloween Party – 8:30 pm (See details on page 3 in SAL News) ---- November Events ----November 1 Holiday Bazaar & Bake Sale – 9:30 to 4:00 (Proceeds to benefit our Veterans)
As of August 27, 2008, the fall schedule is still being assembled. If you have items that you would like to appear in this newsletter calendar, please email to theamericanlegion-post165@charter.net by the 24th of each month. Thanks – Pat Hanley.Thursday evening Euchre We are resuming, Euchre on Thursday evening at 6:30 pm. This event will be held in the large banquet room and will coincide with "burger night". Anyone interested in playing please call me at 989-835-6954. Rosie Howden Fisher House (where "wounded warrior" families can stay while surgery and convalescence takes place). You can help!!! Call Steve Tracy at (989) 835-3733. RE/MAX Balloon Festival this year (September 12-14) will be an occasion for honoring our troops, especially those who have served in the Gulf hostilities since August 2, 1990 to the present date. You have no doubt read the articles in the Midland Daily News concerning this event & the quite impressive CNN Warrior One Hummer that was used by embedded CNN journalists in 2003 to cover the war in Iraq. It has been overhauled and customized and will be shown at the balloon festival with medallions being sold to further support Fisher House (all proceeds to wounded warriors and the families during convalescence). Wayne Crosby & Pat Devereaux of RE/MAX of Midland addressed the membership at the August 6 regular meeting concerning RE/MAX annual fall balloon festival. Crosby asked the membership to assist RE/MAX in guarding this special Hummer that RE/MAX Co-Founders Gail and Dave Liniger purchased for $1 million dollars, all proceeds to Fisher House. Steve Tracy moved that our post provide volunteers to guard from 1 pm to 10 pm on Saturday, September 12, at the fairgrounds. Chuck Kaminski second. Passed unanimous. Other organizations will be taking other shifts. If you would like to represent Berryhill Post 165 in this support of our wounded troops please call Steve Tracy at (989) 835-3733. Call now, as the list is being assembled.
See "CNN Warrior One Hummer" at RE/MAX Balloon Festival, September 12-14, 2008. Holiday Bazaar & Bake Sale Saturday, November 1st 2008 9:30 to 4:00 At American Legion Post #165 5111 Hedgewood Drive Midland, Michigan 48640 $25.00 for space & a table is provided if needed on a "first come" basis Lunch will be available For more INFORMATION call Rei Li at (989) 835-3733 No refunds if cancelled after October 15th Set up time is Friday 5 to 8 p.m. or Saturday 7:30 a.m. PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT OUR VETERANS SAL NEWS We have 2 Major Events coming up:
(A MAXIMUM OF 2,800 TICKETS WILL BE SOLD) To ALL SAL MEMBERS: We also need help selling the Raffle Tickets. It's real easy to sell 20+ tickets when they are only $2 each & $6 for images. Please step up and sell some tickets. If each SAL Member sold 20 tickets we would have a sell out. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS. If you can help, please e-mail: salpost165@gmail.com with your name and phone number and we will contact you for your availability. Brian Cashin SAL Finance Officer/Adjutant This newsletter currently takes no paid advertisement. We currently have 223 email addresses that receive this local newsletter during the last week of each month with news about Berryhill Post 165. If any members would like to advertise contact Pat Hanley at theamericanlegion-post165@charter.net .As 2009 membership cards are mailed to Legion members, Adjutant Hanley is enclosing a member data sheet, requesting members to return their email address, as well as updating/correcting items such as "branch of service" and "war era". The cost to Berryhill Post 165 for this email newsletter is zero. If you are aware of a SAL or Auxiliary member not receiving have them send their email address to theamericanlegion-post165@charter.net.Bingo at the American Legion. In December we will be at the end of our first year of rotating bingo teams at Berryhill. For over 15 years it used to be that Bob & Vi Walker, Margie Kelly, Eva Havens, Grace Chase, Kim Thousand, Pauline Robinson, Kay & Larry Bishop & some others carried the load every week. We currently have 32 members on a 4 week rotation. IF YOU WOULD VOLUNTEER, MAYBE WE COULD MOVE THAT ROTATION TO EVERY 8 WEEKS. Ambitious aren’t I, well if you don’t think big and you don’t ask, then no one is going to know that you need help. Call Steve Tracy at (989) 835-3733 or Pat Hanley at (989) 488-2025 to volunteer to work bingo at Berryhill Post 165.
"Families of Men and Women on Active Duty – Thank you from Berryhill Post 165!" Pat Hanley – Post 165 Legion Adjutant
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