Way - Whitehouse Memorial AMVETS Post 35 Inc.

Commanders Message July was a fairly quiet month for the Post after all the activities in June. Independence Day saw a good crowd at the Post that day as we grilled burgers, brats and hot dogs. August 31st is the end of our membership year and renewals have started already. Annual members need to renew by Sept 1st to remain current with their membership. We will be gearing up for the fall festivities leading into our holiday season. We will be having a vote at the August General Member-ship Meeting on changes to the Post Constitution and By-Laws. In October we always have Hal-loween Parties, and then Novem-ber brings our Veteran’s Day Ser-vice at the Memorial Wall by the courthouse. This year the parade will be the same day as the cere-mony. I will need volunteers to assist in setting that up. That leads right into our Meals-0n-Wheels for Thanksgiving and Christmas along with our Christ-mas Party. Check out the calen-dar and our website for other up-coming events. Yours In Service Craig Sarrasin Commander

Auxiliary President Boy is it HOT out there!!! I hope everyone is staying cool this summer. Don’t forget school starts August 17th so please watch out for the kids in the morning standing outside wait-ing for their buses. We have a box at the post next to the pull tab machines for any donations for local school kids who cannot afford school supplies. Some of the things you can pick up are: scissors, crayons, pencils, paper, glue, folders, erasers, highlight-ers, rulers, pencil bags or boxes. We would really appreciate it if while you are out shopping if you could pick up some of these supplies and bring them to the post. I know the kids would ap-preciate it as well. Thank you in advance for your help with this yearly program that we do. If you have any questions you can contact me or our Child Welfare Programs Officer Carrol Bleigh. I would like to thank everyone who came out and participated in our Family Game Day. I was a great success. This is something we are going to do every year, however, we will be changing the date for next year so it is not so hot outside and we will be able to enjoy ourselves a little bit more. We will also be changing the charity every year as well. And a special thank you to Ron

Amvets, Ladies Auxiliary, Sons’, and Riders’

105 John King Road Crestview, FL 32539

850-682-8435

www.amvetspost35fl.com

Jon Brackett, JV Vaughn, and Neil Siddall for standing out in the heat and cooking. You guys did an awesome job!!!! And thank you Glenn Rhyne “U-R-1-2” for providing us with the en-tertainment. These four guys were outside all afternoon in the heat. Thank you for your support of The Ladies Auxiliary. We really do appreciate it!! We have a lot of things coming up in the next few months at the post. Please keep your eyes open for flyers and things in the calen-dar. Our next meeting will be 1 September @ 6:30 pm at the post. I hope to see you there. Yours in Service, Duan Marie Byrd Auxiliary President

August 2015 VETERANS HELPING VETERANS ISSUE 8

Kids enjoying the outside with toys and games on

Family Day

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Post Officers 2013-2014 Commander Craig Sarrasin

1st Vice Commander Darrin Cogan

Membership

2nd Vice Commander Elizabeth Westby

Programs

Chairman Board of Trustees Bill Hafner

Finance Teresa Kimbril

Adjutant Teresa White

Judge Advocate John Wolford

Provost Marshall John Vaughn

Chaplain Dennis Wise

Quartermaster Bruce Regan

Historian Bill Hafner

P R O

Sons Coordinator Suzy Taylor

Lounge Manager Sherrie Scanlan

Trustees

1 Yr.Member Kelley Schwendt-Kevin Sparagowski

2 Yr Member Clayton White-Dennis Wise

3 Yr Member Ron Brackett-Earl Van Valkenburg

Ladies Auxiliary President Duan Marie Byrd

1st Vice President Mary Hafner

2nd Vice President Carol Bleigh

3rd Vice President Pam Sparks

Secretary Pam Apelskog

Treasurer Jerri Devoll

Chaplain Karen Mofford

S.E.C. Jerri Devoll

Scholarship Tammy Kaim

Americanism

Son’s Of AMVETS Commander Kelly Durgan

1st Vice Commander Joel Hughes

2nd Vice Commander Hippie Reynolds

Adjutant Vacant

Finance Dean Westby

Provost Marshall Joel Givens

Judge Advocate Jim Meager

Chaplain Vacant

PRO Kevin Fitzgerald

Historian Brian Simonds

AMVET Riders President Clayton White

1st Vice President Duan Marie Byrd

2nd Vice President Biff Walls

Secretary Duan Marie Byrd

Treasurer Shay Reeder

Chaplain Javier Hernandez

Sgt. at Arms Teresa White

Judge Advocate Christy Duncan

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Many thanks to all the folks that put in so much effort for the Fam-ily/Game Day, good time, good food. Speaking of effort…on1 Aug and every 1st Saturday of each month we will be having a work party (Not work camp) starting at 0800 and will include a lunch for the folks that help out. As you all know there are always things that need done and there will be a list posted for both inside and outside so we can be productive no matter the weath-er. Please come out and help, re-member, this is YOUR post, help us all be proud of it. Last but not least we have one more re-quest. There are a number of people that willingly sacrifice their time and effort for so many things around here to be a suc-cess, one of which is the Wednesday night bin-go. Please be respectful, consid-erate and thankful that they are there for your enjoyment. As al-ways don’t forget the suggestion box, good, bad, ugly, or other-wise. Thank you and hope to see you at the Post. Bill Hafner, Chairman

Riders Not much news from the Riders side of the house. We are still working on our annual USO Pok-er run, which will be held on the 19th of September. I would like to solicit the help of Post mem-bers to help obtain raffle prizes and auction items for the event. I know we all frequent local busi-nesses on a regular basis. On you next visit ask for a donation, any-thing would be appreciated. Horse Races on the deck are also still in the planning stage and hopefully we can do that some-time in October. I would also like to welcome are two new members to the Riders, Paul Mercer a new member to our Post and Jill Holstein a member of Post 78 in Valp. I’m positive both Paul and Jill will be an asset to the Riders. Again feel free to approach me with any question/concerns about the Riders.

Clay White

Willie still going strong at 93 years young. Thank you for your

support Willie.

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Second Vice Commander Programs

August already, where is the year going? I know you're getting ready to send the kids and grand-kids back to school, but remem-ber to stop by the Post to keep up with the activities going on there. With the kids going back to school, you may also want to take a look at continuing your educa-tion. Many colleges and universi-ties are offering scholarships, in-cluding UWF. This isn't just for the Veterans, it's for family mem-bers too! Flyers are on the bulle-tin boards, take a look. Keep doing those programs, and report them! Yours in Service, Liz Westby dlwestby@cox.net

Canteen Manager

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19 August 2015

Mary Clark singing Karaoke at Family Day

Waiting in line for Burgers and dogs.

Enjoying a great lunch

Nikki Patterson and her daughter Autumn singing

Trivia Question

First 5 people to tell the bartender on duty the correct answer will re-

ceive a free beer. What year was the title

of National Guard formalized?

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July Pool Tournament Winners

1st place Virgil Talbott & norm Hullinger

2nd place Craig Sarrasin & John Wolford

3rd place Richard Byrd & Preston Yutzey

We would like to Welcome our New Members

Todd Files Air Force Richard Jones Air Force Levi Lawson Army Travis Owens Army Kyle Portman Air Force Israel Root Air Force Casey Owens Auxiliary

Welcome to the AMVETS Family

June 9 Ball Tournament Winners

1st place

Susanne Scanlan

2nd place

Richard Lovering

3rd place

Del Lallathion

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Auxiliary Family Day

Our Cooks for the day!!! Ron Jon, JV, and Neil

Our Entertainment Glenn Rhyne “U-R-1-2”

Our Bartenders Suzy and Joni

Playing Corn Hole Pam Sparks and Tammy Kaim

Kids singing Karaoke

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Drink Specials 11:00 am to 4:00 pm Only

8/3 Well Drinks 1.75 8/4 Draft Dom. Pitchers 4.00 8/5 Wild Turkey 3.00 8/6 CC 2.00 8/7 Well Drinks 1.75 8/10 Crown 3.25 8/11 Bloody Mary’s 1.75 8/12 Yukon 2.50 8/13 Well Drinks 1.75 8/14 Canadian Mist 2.00 8/17 Draft Dom. Pitchers 4.00 8/18 Well Drinks 1.75 8/19 Wine 1.75 8/20 Beam 8 2.00 8/21 Beefeaters 2.75 8/24 Bloody Mary’s 1.75 8/25 Well Drinks 1.75 8/26 Wine 1.75 8/27 Draft Dom. Pitchers 4.00 8/28 Vegas Bombs 3.00 8/31 Jack Daniels 2.75

ENTERTAINMENT

Friday – July 31st MUSIC

8:00pm – Midnight “James Tyler Findley”

Friday - August 7th

DJ/Karaoke 8:00pm – Midnight

“U-R-1-2”

Friday – August 14th DJ/Karaoke

8:00pm – Midnight “U-R-1-2”

Friday – August 21st

MUSIC 5:00pm – Midnight

“Open Jukebox”

Friday - August 28th

DJ/Karaoke

8:00pm - Midnight

“U-R-1-2”

Saturday – August 1st BAND

8:00pm – Midnight “Serious Jones”

Saturday – August 8th

BAND 8:00pm – Midnight

“The Twins”

Saturday – August 15th BAND

8:00pm – Midnight “Aftermath”

Saturday – August 22nd

MUSIC 8:00pm – Midnight

“Jason Tyler Findley”

Saturday –August 29th

BAND

8:00pm-Midight

“Finga Faya”

HIGHLIGHTS!!!

Way - Whitehouse Memorial AMVETS Post 35 Inc. 105 John King Road Crestview, Fl 32539

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