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POST EXAMINER
VOL. 65 ISSUE 1 CLICK HERE FOR BACK ISSUE JAN/FEB 2013
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Post #51 2012-2013 S.A.L. 2012-2013 Auxiliary 2012-2013
Commander: Larry Williams Commander: Ray Novencido President: Charline Shipley Adjutant: Ray Johnson Secretary: Mandy White
Chaplain: Jerry Patton Chaplain: Debbie Bates
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COMMANDER'S MESSAGE
HAPPY NEW
YEAR TO
EVERYONE!
As we are about to start a new year, I hope we will be more financially stable.
We sold the Mike Warren house to a retired Army veteran. The yellow house has been vacated and we are in the process of splitting up the lot in order to preserve our bus shed and alley if we decide to sell the house.
December has been very busy as always with parties and our charity food baskets (a lot of work has gone into this program). My sincere thanks to everyone who has helped with the food baskets.
Late December and early January bring several bowl games with the Oregon Ducks on January 3rd and Oregon State Beavers on December 29th; come on down to the Post and watch.
January 11, 12, and 13 will be the Department Mid-Winter D.E.C. which will be hosted by Santiam Post #51.
Please notice elsewhere on the website an announcement about the honor flights to take WWII veterans back to Washington, D.C. to see the World War II Memorial. These flights are special. They are provided through charitable contributions and would welcome support from any member wishing to help.
Lastly, we were unable to approve the changes to the Bylaws at the last general meeting due to lacking a quorum. We will try to complete this item at the January general meeting.
Larry Williams
Post Commander
commander@santiampost51.org
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
"....Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.... It's about learning to "dance in the rain"..!!
Psalms 1:1, 9:10 by David.
It is prayed that 2013 will bring you renewal of faith, hope and success and expanding love of family, friends and country.
I want to extend a big Thank You to all the volunteers who continue to step up and make all of the projects for our veterans and families the huge success they are! I look forward to another successful year with enhancements and upgrades to insure the success of our projects.
January calendar shows a Midwinter DEC the 11th and 12th with meetings and a Saturday dinner. Call the Post for registration. The District 3 meeting has been rescheduled to the 26th at the Albany Eagles with a noon lunch and the meeting to follow.
In February, I will appoint a Nominating Committee of 3 Auxiliary members at the General Meeting of the 19th. If you are interested, please contact me by written message dropped in the Auxiliary box at the Post. Election of new officers will be at the April 16th meeting at 7:00 P.M.
In March, we will host the Department President's visitation at our General Meeting on Tuesday, the 19th. We will also be serving dinner to our visitors.
Welcome to all new and renewed members! We have many wonderful and fun places to you to volunteer, so please let us know what your interests are by talking to us or leaving a note in our Auxiliary box at the Post. Thank you.
Charline Shipley
Unit President
president@santiampost51.org 1-12-13
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FROM THE ADJUTANT'S DESK
MEMBERSHIP DUES
ARE DUE!
MEMBERSHIP
Of our members, 150 have not renewed their dues for 2013. Your key card will not work as of January 1st. I would still like to make goal before the Albany Post. PLEASE get your membership dues in.
BULLETINS
A lot of members have not sent in the survey slip. Only 160 want the bulletin mailed to them and only 14 members will pick up the bulletin at the Post.
Apparently, 700 of our members plan to read the bulletin on-line! If true, this will save us a bunch of money!
NEW YEAR’S DAY TOM & JERRY PARTY
We will start serving at 12:30 pm. Membership needs to be paid to get in.
Ray Johnson
Adjutant
adjutant@santiampost51.org 1-1-13
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" CLUB 51 "
CRAB
FEED
COMING!
Hopefully everyone had a great Holiday!
So . . . Another year begins with a busy January. We will have a crab feed on the first Saturday, January 5th,
A Department Mid-Winter D.E.C. on the second weekend in January,
A Department Junior meeting planned for the third weekend.
Finally, the 40&8 Cheminot will be on the forth weekend.
On both the second and forth Saturdays of January, the band will start playing at 8:30 pm to allow extra time for the banquets being held.
In February, we will have a Super Bowl Sunday event on the first weekend (join us for fun and drinks) and the Sweetheart Ball on the third Saturday.
We also hope to start Texas Hold'Em on Friday nights in February. The card activities will be held in the back meeting room(s) and should not disrupt the normal Friday activities in the lounge.
If you are thinking of a party, think of us as a place to hold your function.
Doris Fuller—
Club Manager
manager@santiampost51.org 1-1-13
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SONS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION
NEW YEAR'S
TOM AND JERRY
PARTY
12:30 P.M.
At this writing, we are entering the Christmas and New Year’s Holiday season. On behalf of the S.A.L., have a happy and safe holiday.
On New Year’s Day, the S.A.L. will be preparing and serving the beverages at the Tom & Jerry party starting at 12:30 pm. Be sure to join us in the festivities.
The S.A.L. will be up-dating our bylaws; a committee will be formed for that purpose. If you are a member and want to suggest amendments, deletions, inclusions, repeals, etc., please contact me at 541-401-0386 or via our E-mail address.
Thanks to all S.A.L. members for your support, involvement, energy, and volunteerism during the past year.
Ray Novencido
Squadron Commander
salcmd@santiampost51.org 1-1-13
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A True Love Story?... WHAT A GUY.....
A couple was Christmas shopping at the mall on Christmas Eve and the Mall was packed.
As the wife walked through the mall she was surprised to look up and see her husband was nowhere around.
She was quite upset because they had a lot to do.
Because she was so worried, she called him on her mobile phone to ask him where he was.
In a calm voice, the husband said, "Honey, you remember the jewelry
store we went into about 5 years ago where you fell in love with that
diamond necklace that we could not afford and I told you that I would
get it for you one day?"
The wife choked up and started to cry and said,
"Yes, I remember that jewelry store."
He said, "Well, I'm in the bar right next to it waiting for you to finish your shopping."
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AUXILIARY NEWS
HELP US
MAKE
GOAL!
AUXILIARY NEWS MEMBERSHIP
Auxiliary membership is at 430 in to Department. Our goal is 614. We will be sending out reminder notices—please help us reach our goal by paying your dues. Also, remember that if you have not paid by the end of December, your key card will not work!
Mary Lou Chewning
Membership Secretary
membership@santiampost51.org
NEW YEAR’S DAY SMORGASBORD
Come down on New Year’s day to enjoy the Tom & Jerry party and smorgasbord. We will start serving food at 12:30 pm and at a cost of $4.00 per plate.
Mary Lou Chewning
Chairman
COOKIE BAKERS
In September we donated 102 dozen cookies, in October 114 dozen to Roseburg. Then we learned that the new Roseburg COSTCO started donating their baked goods to the hospital using up all of the freezer space they had used for the cookies we baked! While that was good for the vets there, it left us up in the air. So, in November we baked 120 dozen cookies not only for the Christmas baskets here, but the vets luncheon in December.
As of this writing, the future for Cookie Bake will be bright. We are partnering with Anita Allen and Troop Support here in town to bake and send cookies to the troops on the front -- mostly in Afghanistan. She will be helping us by funding the postage to mail these cookies to our men and women overseas. We will start this in January.
Donations: I want to thank Ric Olsen for delivering the cookies to Roseburg in September. Other donations came from several people (not enough room here to list); thank you for being so generous. Again we have had some bags of cookie ingredients without their names on them. While you may wish to remain anonymous, please know that we really do “thank you” as well. Please leave your name and address so we can thank you properly. Cookie Bakes are held on the third Monday of the month. We would love to have you join us for the next bake on January 21st 7 - 9:30 AM. We love to see familiar and new faces! Questions about helping or donating? Call Linda Helget, Chairperson 541-258-5960
Linda Helget
Chairman
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I DIDN'T KNOW THAT
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water.
When a human body is dehydrated,its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent
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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
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Welcome to the following new (or new to our Post) members. Come in to the Post home, show us your membership card, and receive a beverage on us.
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Richard Eckhardt
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Larry R March
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Thomas L. Summers
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Orion C. Brewer
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William R. Sturdivant
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Raymond M. Harris
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Timothy M Souza
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Arthur Herring
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Brian C Warner
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Samuel E. Comer
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George H. Cromwell
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Robert W. Davenport
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Larry G. Hannah Sr.
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Adam T. Passmore
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Gary Pike
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Michael J. Kelley
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Dave Hetzler
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Val J. Newman
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James F. Pointer
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Richard Barm Nix
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Edward Diggs
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Ronald E. Garber
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Robert A. Hansen Sr
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Marianne H. Dampmann
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Jerry L. Jones
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Danny J. Wilson
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Michael F. Martin
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Bernard F. Nofziger
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Allen E. Ball
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Milton C. Englke
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Michael R. Howe
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Darlene Greiner
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Holly Sutton
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Rachel Lee
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Mary Wilson
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Lorraine Hearn
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Ruth Gay
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Constance Scalp
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Heather Balzomo
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Donna Hanna
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SAL
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Jason B. Lay
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Kyle B. Atchley
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Lynn A. Piha
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TAPS
Sadly, we lost the following members recently. They will be missed.
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Robert E. Krejci (Korean War Vet)
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Jimmie Barker (Korean War Vet)
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Lawrence D. Forsythe (World War II Vet)
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AUXILIARY
Joyce Schlichtig
SAL
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Richard Hanberg
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F. Douglas Gatchell
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Play Taps
(Recorded at Arlington with two buglers playing at opposite ends of the cemetery.)
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CHRISTMAS BASKETS
I wish to thank the following for their donations:
Bi-Mart
The Grocery Outlet
Food Share (Sweet Home)
Rollin Oldies Car Club
Safeway
Wells Fargo
American Legion Auxiliary Unit #51
Lebanon High School JROTC
And, everyone else who helped and/or donated food and/or money. With all this help, we have been able to help over 41 families.
Ward White
Co-Chairman
Post #51
AN ADDITIONAL NOTE ON THE CHRISTMAS BASKETS:
We will have a complete report on the Christmas Basket Program in the near future and members will see it in New News. However, I would like to add to what Ward has said above. On behalf of the Post, we give a sincere thanks to Ward for his efforts in overseeing this program. He spent an immense amount of time seeing local merchants to solicit their help and coordinating the whole effort. Without him it wouldn't have happened. Further, the money invested by the Post and Auxiliary was multiplied significantly by other donations that he received. This a very needed service to our community and very cost effective for us thanks to Wards efforts.
John Green
Jr. Past Commander
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COMPLETE AND FINISHED
No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference between these two words.
In a recently held linguistic competition held in London, England, and attended by the best in the world, Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese man from Bachelors Adventure, was the clear winner with a standing ovation which lasted over 5 minutes.
The final question was: How do you explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED in a way that is easy to understand. Some people say there is no difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED.
Here is his astute answer: When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE. When you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED. And when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!
He won a trip to travel the world in style, and a case of 25 year old Eldorado Rum!
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SOUTH WILLAMETTE VALLEY HONOR FLIGHT
South Willamette Valley Honor Flight is one of 115 regional "Hubs" in 41 states participating in the national Honor Flight Network program honoring WWII veterans by taking them free of charge to Washington, D.C. to visit their National WWII Memorial.
SWVHF is a project of Honor Flight of Oregon, a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization based in Grants Pass.
Veterans and Guardians who assist veterans will visit the WWII Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Iwo Jima Memorial, Tomb of the Unknowns, and other memorials in the Washington, D.C. area. The trips are four days in duration. Guardians must pay their own expenses. The veterans go free.
Flights are scheduled for April 25-28 and May 16-20. Twenty-five WWII veterans from Lane, Lincoln, Benton, and Linn counties will be on each Honor Flight.
Any of our WWII veterans from Post #51 are encouraged to look into this program.
Any member wishing to support the program with a tax deductible contribution is encouraged to make a contribution through a local Umpqua Bank, under SWV Honor Flight, or go through the Flight's website at: http://www.swvhonorflight.org/
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NEEDING HELP
I am in the process of archiving nearly 4,000 photos depicting the activities and history of the Linn County Veterans Council (many thanks to the Albany Regional Museum and staff for gathering & preserving these). I am asking for donation of any printed information about old Veterans Day activities here in Linn County and the older the better. There is scant information from 1951 through the mid-sixties, but there are some years where we have neither almanacs nor information. Newspaper articles are helpful as well as photos that document the events and people involved. Of utmost importance are the first-person human interest stories that abound in conjunction with the events.
Any information you might be willing to donate or that we can copy, would be greatly appreciated. I can be reached at 541-401-1063 or at the following E-mail address: 46fordpu@centurytel.net
Louie White
Member Albany Post #10
Member Linn Voiture 891
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NEW "NEWS" PAGE
This page is called the New "News" page. It will keep you up to date on the Club's activities and happenings. These will be things we didn't mention earlier, recent changes, and other new items since the last Examiner was published.
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