Congratulations to Commander Chub Hensley and Quartermaster Jim Tenhoff for receiving White Hat All State Awards at the VFW Awards Ceremony at the Spring Convention in Rochester on June 10th. Commrades: This newsletter is number two of twelve. A few members spent four days at the VFW Convention in Rochester this last week. It was rewarding to hear post 7902 called out for a number of awards. One was for Mike Kral for the best newspaper article for a veteran, in the state, published in the Echo Press of Alexandria. Mike was surprised as well as all of us that were there. Great job Mike!! Another award was for continued growth for the post. A safety award and an outstanding quarter master award for Jim Tenhoff. He has done a great job for many years. Thanks!! Once again thanks for all those who have helped with the safety award. Representing our auxiliary, Kathy Fystrom was elected state president for the coming year. For someone to accomplish this speaks well for her hard work and dedication. Congratulations Kathy, we are so proud of you!! June has started off with a bang. We had a huge turnout for the last fish fry. Thanks to Jerry Kral and his gang that are so dedicated to help him every time. The Osakis parade on June 26th. We will have our flag retiring ceremony that Jim Tenhoff and Jerry Kral do every year at this time. We have a post membership volunteer dinner on June 29th. So you can see why I say June is a very busy month. Along with all these events is the job of mowing the lawn. The following people have taken turns mowing: Mike Kral, Mike Rooney, Chad Gulbranson and myself. I'll say it again, June is a busy month !! And July will be even as busy. So please help in any way you can. There is something for anyone who can help. It would be so appreciated. Most of our snowbirds are back and already been helping us. We also have help from people that aren't even members. Don't forget the replica of the Vietnam Nam wall will be in Sauk Centre at the Eagles Nest, from July 14 - 17th. Hope you can visit this awesome display. Your Post Commander Chub Dear Sisters, Happy Summer!! School is done and all the summer activities are in full swing. Vacation time and all the summer fun is about to begin. Enjoy, before long and it will over. The ladies attending our meeting voted to spend $100.00 for the Osakis Festival Parade. This is the last meeting for me, Delores starts at the next meeting. Please everyone, step up and help her out as you have helped me. Thank you everyone, for all your support and help over the years. My officers are super, they make it so easy. Thanks so much. It has been a good memory! Next meeting is July 20, at 7:00 pm Servers are Jan F., Lyla E., Shelly T. Loyally, Your Past President- Ginny Earl July Birthday Celebrants Happy birthday to the following July birthday celebrants: Erma Ahrens, Lucille Barber, Alice Bladt, Gene Boisvert, Lloyd Campbell, Sandy Chapman, Alton Fiskness, Ryan Fraser, Betty Hinrichs, Carolyn Holty, Phillip Jence, Allan Karl, Joe Ketelboeter, Brenda Kral, Mike Kral, Nick Krebsbach, Fred Larsen, Rose Larson, Richard Loxtercamp, Connie Maxey, Helen McLain, Joan Melchert, John Pekar, Joan Pollard, Shelly Schnitzler, Dennis Tomford, Calvin Uhl, & Myron Wegener. Don’t forget to visit the Club on your birthday for a complimentary beverage. Please contact either Helen McLain (320-859-4384) or Mike Kral (320-859-5643) if your birth date in not included. Remember membership night on Fridays from 6:00 – 9:00 PM. During this time, alcohol beverages will be served to all Vets and Auxiliary members at a fifty-cent reduction. Also, all Vets & Auxiliary members who attend the Post or Auxiliary meeting will receive a fifty cent reduction on alcohol beverages after the meeting until closing. The courtesy of displaying a membership card to receive this price break would be appreciated by the bar personnel. Remodeling Fund
Thanks to all who continue to respond when called to help with our many volunteer activities. Membership has voted to construct 10 X 20 foot storage shed on the east side of the Club. This building will be used for general storage and to house a Club lawn mower the purchase of which we are currently researching. Building will start ASAP. Fundraisers for the month of July are: fish fry on the 8 th & roast beef dinner on the 29 th . We’re still looking for enterprising individuals to start a new monthly activity. A monthly chicken dinner would be fantastic. Once per month is not a great commitment and being involved with projects usually is satisfying and fun.
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Comrades, This week was another first for me. I was asked to show my support by handing out poppies to the public. What a nice feeling that was to see young and old stop by and pick up a poppy and to say thank you for all we do. So next year if any of you can follow the example of Pat Mohor and many others who have done this for many years, I'm sure Kathy and Denny Fystrom would thank you as well. We will install our elected members once again. Offices are about the same. So therefore it shouldn't be hard to remember. I will be commander once again for ONE more year. Also, with the help of Mike Kral, Jan Flolid, Tune (Donald Tonn), Steve Mihalchick and Jim Tenhoff and all the others that do so much for our Post, we will move forward. We had a large turnout for our Fish Fry and Seniors dance. We really need to show our appreciation to the workers that do this every month. If you have never been to a fish fry I would suggest you do!! Stop by and watch the crew at work. I hope this information gets to you by Memorial Day so everyone can be reminded the service will be held at the Armed Forces Memorial Site. We will honor our fallen veterans Shelly (Manager of our club and her crew are working hard to make sure our club is a nice and friendly place for people to visit and relax and enjoy themselves. (Thank you Shelly). Keep a close eye on your June and July calendars as we will be having a number of events coming up that we would like everyone to attend. This is my first of twelve newsletters for the second year. If you would want me to include something in the newsletter, contact me and either me, my wife or daughter will get it in the newsletter. Don't forget a very important event going on , June 11th come help our Manager Shelly and Jeff Schnitzler celebrate their SPECIAL day !!!! Dear Sisters, What a beautiful day and evening we had, maybe the cool weather is behind us now. Got your flowers planted?; Some of your garden? Had to mow lawn a few times already too. Things always look so nice this time every year, and thinking forward to planting at the grave sites, and getting ready for Memorial Day. This year it is going to be held at the Veterans Memorial Site, south of town. Cindy Eischen and crew will have lunch following at the Post. Please bring a pan of bars to share. It will be appreciated. For business- installation of officers was held, monies spent was $50.00 for St. Judes Bike Ride, going for children's cancer centers. Also $200.00 was sent to Todd County for Battle Point. They are raising money to put a paved walk to the fishing pier, so easier to get to the pier. It was stated in the last magazine from National, that the dues probably will go up. So ladies hurry and buy a life membership at this years prices!! We also voted to accept 2 new members to the Auxiliary, one of them being a male. Good job Cindy! The husband and wife saw the sign over the bar area and started to ask questions, loved the area and our organization and want to be a part of it. Next meeting is June 15th at 7:00pm. Servers are Barb T., Tammy E., and Carol K. Loyally, Ginny Earl June Birthday Celebrants Happy birthday to the following June birthday celebrants: Jesse Becerra, Chelsy Butkowski, Pat Cahill, Vance Emerson, Cole Erie, Denny Fystrom, Mae Garvin, Hope Helms, Gladys Henderson, Peter Klick, Bernard Kreemer, Delores Macy, Sandy Maher, Carol Marthaler, Michael McCurdy, Sheryl Mostad, Ron Nelson, Laurie Neumann, Leann Repp, Shelly Triebenbach, & Mike Yurecko. Don’t forget to visit the Club on your birthday for a complimentary beverage. Please contact either Helen McLain (320-859-4384) or Mike Kral (320-859-5643) if your birth date in not included. Remember membership night on Fridays from 6:00 – 9:00 PM. During this time, alcohol beverages will be served to all Vets and Auxiliary members at a fifty-cent reduction. Also, all Vets & Auxiliary members who attend the Post or Auxiliary meeting will receive a fifty cent reduction on alcohol beverages after the meeting until closing. The courtesy of displaying a membership card to receive this price break would be appreciated by the bar personnel. Hello Comrades and Sisters:
We finally got some summer-what a joy Here are some Totals for our Poppy Campaign for 2016. Poppy Day $830.88 Poppy Cards $466.00 Poppy Mailing $954.00 Grand Total of $2250.88 This total is $40.54 higher than last year. However it is the best poppy day we have ever had. All these funds will be spent wisely on Veterans Programs. Thank you again to all the volunteers that helped with this program. A special thanks to our Cindy Eischen for filling in for us this year. If you have forgotten to mail in your donation it can still be done. Just mail to the club marked Poppy and we will get it. Loyally Submitted-Kathy and Denny Fystrom Comrades: I am sorry I neglected to inform all of you , that our dear friend and longtime member Roy Helms passed away. Roy was a big supporter of our post whether in Alaska or in Osakis. Roy and his wife Hope were visitors to Osakis area two or three times a year. His pleasant and friendly smile will be missed by all. . This month has been a time to make all of us proud to be a member of our VFW Post. I saw a church group and many other workers come together for a family in need. Our community responded so well. I have seen this same response for other families or organizations in the past. I am so thankful we have a nice building to hold these events. The members of our post have been a great asset to our community, always willing to provide to our community. Thank you everyone who has helped in any way. It is time to elect members to fill our commanders and other offices in our post. It would be appreciated to see A few new faces in these jobs. But if not we will do what we have done in years past. We will do the best we can and be thankful we have the same ones step up once again. These people don't do this for fame and fortune but rather they do it for the pride and dedication to our post. We need more help to make sure it stay that way. With the hard work of all the people that take care of our charitable gambling, we have been able to donate about $65,000 to many good causes. Whether you believe in the charitable gambling or not at least part of the money is used for many good causes. I hope you will continue to support our post. Commander: Chub Hensley Dear Sisters, This meeting had lots of sisters turning out for our April meeting. It was a great night and a great meeting! With summer coming and nice weather, let’s get our sisters out for the evening. Monies were spent to the following, annual bike rodeo-$125.00 and Department President gift-$25.00. For business we draped the charter for Doris Harth, The Osakis Brownie Troop gave several cookies (girl scout cookies), several cases to be given to Veterans in St. Cloud. It was a "Give Back" project. Silent auction items are wanted for a money making dinner for "Meals on Wheels". May 15th will have a dinner at Community Center to raise monies for the program. Please donate items for this event. It will go for a good cause. Election was held and the following people said they would hold the office. President-Dolores Butkowski, Sr. Vice-Carolyn Holty, Jr. Vice-Kathy Fystrom, Chaplin-Marty Kern, Treasure-Cindy Eischen, Conductress-Barb Neumann, Guard-Lois Neumann, Trustee-Ginny Earl. Thanks to all the ladies who stepped up to take an office. We want this great organization to continue and we have the ladies to do it!! Next meeting is May 18th at 7:00 pm; servers will be Marty K., Vicki H., and Janice H. Loyally, Ginny Earl May Birthday Celebrants
Happy birthday to the following May birthday celebrants: Muriel Bonner, Phyllis DeCann, Lee Christopherson, Joseph Dietrich, John Flolid, Kearney Frank, Francisco Gomez, Geri Grossell, Ken Grossell, Chad Gulbranson, Don Jensen, Gearld Johnson, Julie Kakac, Polly Kallhoff, Benjamin Kral, Jerry Kral, Chuck Maher, Ruth Meier, David McLain, Roland Musolf, Erika Niehoff, Brenda Nelson, Richard Patrick, Dorothy Paulson, Lindell Quam, Harriet Siebell, & Skip Stirzl. Don’t forget to visit the Club on your birthday for a complimentary beverage. Please contact either Helen McLain (320-859-4384) or Mike Kral (320-859-5643) if your birth date in not included. Remember membership night on Fridays from 6:00 – 9:00 PM. During this time, alcohol beverages will be served to all Vets and Auxiliary members at a fifty-cent reduction. Also, all Vets & Auxiliary members who attend the Post or Auxiliary meeting will receive a fifty cent reduction on alcohol beverages after the meeting until closing. The courtesy of displaying a membership card to receive this price break would be appreciated by the bar personnel. |
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