Way - Whitehouse Memorial AMVETS Post 35 Inc

Commanders Message June was a busy month for the Post. The month of May ended with a bang as we had our Annual Golf Scholarship Tournament on May 10th raising $7,500.00 for next year’s scholarship winners. My personal thanks to all the vol-unteers that helped make this event the success that it was. A special thank you goes to all the Ladies Auxiliary members who coordinated this event and all the other volunteers. This event could not be the success it is eve-ry year without these volunteers. June 12-14 we had 13 AMVET Delegates at the AMVETS De-partment of Florida Annual Con-vention. A good time was had by all and there were several excel-lent training sessions on Saturday afternoon that I think were bene-ficial to both our seasoned of-ficer’s and our new ones. Check your calendar in the news-letter and you will see there is always something going on at our post. So come on down, have fun and get involved.

Yours in Service Craig Sarrasin Commander

Amvets, Ladies Auxiliary, Sons’, and Riders’

105 John King Road Crestview, Fl 32539

850-682-8435

www.amvetspost35fl.com

July 2015 VETERANS HELPING VETERANS ISSUE 7

Auxiliary President Well summer is definitely here!! We have our Family Day coming up on the 17th of this month. It is going to be a great time. I hope to see a lot of you there. We will be serving Burgers “your way”, hot dogs, and all the fixins’ for $5.00 a plate. Mary Hafner has been working hard on this and she has a lot of games for everyone to play. All proceeds will be going to the Wounded Warrior Founda-tion in Tonya Bryant’s name. There were 5 Auxiliary members who went to the Department Con-vention on June 12th -14th. I would like to congratulate Jerri Devoll on being our Department Chaplain again this coming year. And I would like to also congrat-ulate Wanda McDermon on being appointed our new Executive Secretary. She is replacing Linda Hoon who served for 6 years and has decided to step down. I am sure they both will do an amazing job in their positions. Our next meeting is Tuesday July 7th at 7:00pm. I hope to see you all there. I hope everyone has a safe 4th of July. Yours in Service Duan Marie Byrd Auxiliary President

Lois Flitcraft and Michelle Brack with the

“Catch of the Day!!!”

Javier Hernandez, Michelle Brack, Lois Flitcraft, Kevin Hicks, Craig Sarrasin, and

Bob Mofford.

Editor’s note: The deadline for articles in the news-

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Post Officers 2013-2014 Commander Craig Sarrasin

1st Vice Commander Darren 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

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 Carrol Bliegh

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 Byrd

2nd Vice President Biff Walls

Secretary Duan Byrd

Treasurer Shay Reeder

Chaplain Javier Hernandez

Sgt. at Arms Teresa White

Judge Advocate Christy Duncan

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

No Report

Riders I would like to take this oppor-tunity to inform everyone I was elected Chapter 35 Riders Presi-dent for the upcoming year and look forward to serving the Post in that position. The Riders will be busy in the next few months planning our annual USO Poker Run, which will be on the 19th of September. This event has grown each year and we hope for it to continue. We are also planning an event in mid- October, Horse Races on the deck. More to come on that, but I ensure you it will be entertaining and a lot of fun. The Riders membership has de-creased over the last few years, I would like to ask the members of the Post to talk to people you may know that ride and tell them about our group. This may help the Riders to increase our mem-bership and interest new members to the Post. Again, I look forward to the up-coming year as the Riders Presi-dent, feel free to ask me any question concerning the Riders.

Clay White Chapter 35 Riders President

Javier Hernandez telling Bob Mofford his fish story. LOL

Javier Hernandez, Lois Flitcraft and Bob Mofford

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Second Vice Commander Programs

“I was drivin' through Florida in late July

On a day hot enough to make the devil sigh…”

Sound like a song, but we’re here already! Summer, and a hot one! Come out to the Post for some cool refreshments and visit with good friends. There’s a lot going on this summer! For those who missed the Con-vention, I hope you’ll consider going next year. It’s a great expe-rience for you, and you’re able to learn a lot. You’ll also get to meet others from around the state and compare notes on some of their good practices – we really get some good ideas there. Glenn Rhyne is trying to get to-gether some horseshoe players, but first we’ll need to get the pits in shape. Some of it has been completed, but there’s still more to do. If you want to help out, or if you want to play, get in touch with Glenn. And a big shout out to those of you who helped with the Scholar-ship Golf Tournament! After it was all totaled, the programs re-ported for this event were around $36,000. Pat yourselves on the back, give yourselves a hand! Next year we’ll be able to present around $7500 in scholarships to local high school seniors. Fantas-tic job! I’m still looking for additional projects that we can get involved in as an organization. If you’ve got something you’d be interested in heading up, bring it to me and we’ll get it started! Yours in Service, Liz Westby dlwestby@cox.net

Canteen Manager

No Report

Javier Hernandez and Michelle Brack

Craig Sarrasin, Lois Flitcraft, Javier Hernandez, and

Michelle Brack

Trivia Question

First 5 people to tell the bartender on duty the correct

answer will receive a free beer.

Who was the only person to sign the

Declaration of Independence of the

4th of July?

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July Pool Tournament Winners

1st place

2nd place

3rd place

We would like to Welcome our New Members

Jordan Bennett NAVY Eddie Edson ARMY Matthew Knox NAVY Paul Mercer ARMY Leonard Smith AIR FORCE Donna Murray Auxiliary Betty Bright Auxiliary Anita Mercer Auxiliary Courtenay Shepard Auxiliary Linda Smith Auxiliary

Welcome to the AMVETS Family

June 9-ball pool tournament winners

1st place

2nd place

3rd place

No Picture Submitted

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The Gang Michelle Brack, Craig Sarrasin, Bob Mof-ford, and Javier Hernandez

Kevin Hicks, Craig Sarrasin, Javier Hernandez, Lois Flitcraft, Bob Mofford, and Michelle Brack.

Bob Mofford, Michelle Brack, and Javier Hernandez

Bob Mofford, and Michelle Brack

Lois Flitcraft and Michelle Brack

June Fishing Trip

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

7/1 Wine 1.75 7/2 Well Drinks 1.75 7/3 Jack Daniels 2.75 7/6 Well Drinks 1.75 7/7 Draft Dom. Pitchers 4.00 7/8 Beefeaters 2.75 7/9 CC 2.00 7/10 Well Drinks 1.75 7/13 Crown 3.25 7/14 Bloody Mary’s 1.75 7/15 Yukon 2.50 7/16 Well Drinks 1.75 7/17 Canadian Mist 2.00 7/20 Draft Dom. Pitchers 4.00 7/21 Well Drinks 1.75 7/22 Jim Beam 2.75 7/23 Beams 8 2.00 7/24 Beefeaters 2.75 7/27 Wild Turkey 3.00 7/28 Well Drinks 1.75 7/29 Wine 1.75 7/30 Draft Dom. Pitchers 4.00 7/31 Vegas Bombs 3.00

ENTERTAINMENT

Friday – July 3rd

MUSIC 5:00pm – Midnight

“Open Jukebox”

Friday - July 10th DJ/Karaoke

8:00pm – Midnight “U-R-1-2”

Friday – July 17th

DJ/Karaoke 8:00pm – Midnight

“U-R-1-2”

Friday – July 24th

MUSIC 5:00pm – Midnight

“Open Jukebox”

Friday - July 31st

MUSIC

8pm-Midnight

“James Tyler Findley”

Saturday – July 4th

MUSIC 5:00pm – Midnight

“Open Jukebox”

Saturday – July 11th BAND

8:00pm – Midnight “Grey Wolf”

Saturday – July 18th

MUSIC 8:00pm – Midnight

“Open Jukebox”

Saturday – July 25th

BAND 8:00pm – Midnight

HIGHLIGHTS!!!

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

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