The Tigard Post A monthly newsletter of American Legion Post #158 FEBRUARY 2015 VOL. 17 ISSUE 2 8635 SW Scoffins Street • Tigard, Oregon 97223 www.americanlegion158.com 503-624-2332 POST OFFICERS Commander Jim Waggoner 1st Vice Commander Kent Erickson 2nd Vice Commander Tom Curran Adjutant Bernie Healy Finance Officer Gary Baldwin Service Officer Tom Startin Sgt. at Arms Dean Johnston Chaplain Dick Gallien Historian Tom Harris Judge Advocate Jim Holton E-Board at Large Amber Stevens Joe Bustos AUXILIARY OFFICERS President Brenda Sherlock 1st Vice President Helen Sullivan 2nd Vice President Susan Hughes Commander Jim Waggoner Greetings, If you have been in the Post lately you will see us updating our facility. I would ask if you could please have patience while these updates are taking place. This month there will be no reason NOT to come to your Post. We have a special activity going on every week. Starting with The Sunday Super Bowl game and Potluck. The Starry Nite Players will be here on Legion Steak night, the 7th (what a Hoot they are). Then the Auxiliary Valentines Dinner, the Americanism Dinner, the Legion Prime Rib Dinner, and finishing off the month a 50’s-60’s Sock Hop. It will be a great month! Note that beginning in February our Breakfast menu has changed. The price for the standard breakfast remains the same, however we had to make some changes to reflect our costs. Last, I would like all members to consider the servers that volunteer here are just that, non-paid volunteers and should be treated with patience and respect. God Bless, Jim Secretary Nancy Scott Treasurer Phyllis Parent Chaplain Joanne Harris Historian Georganne Dorr Sgt. at Arms Sandy Watson “E” Board Nora Pirrie • Jane Erickson Junior Past President Joanne Harris S ONS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 1st Vice Legion & S.A.L. Membership is 85% (goal). 584 for American Legion 2015, SAL membership at this time is about 65% of goal. Take advantage of Dual membership, only 15.00 a year for current Legion members. Kent Erickson This month is Blue Shirt meeting night. Kent Commander Bret Lieuallen 1st Vice Commander Kent Erickson 2nd Vice Commander Jeremy Howard Adjutant Bernie Healy Finance Officer James Waggoner Sgt. at Arms - OPEN Chaplain Jim Haworth Historian Brent Sherlock 2nd Vice Tom Curran New Year’s Party was a big success. Thank you Riders and Legion members for your help. Next up will be Jim Holton’s Crab Feed January 31st. Tickets are $19.00 presale and $20.00 at the door. I can always use volunteers for Legion Steak Dinners and servers Friday and Monday nights. Be Well, Tom The Tigard Post PAGE 2 Adjutant Bernie Healy FEB 2015 From The National Commander Mike Helm: Because of its dedicated members, The American Legion is the nations largest and most powerful veterans service organization. Strength in numbers allows us to fight for--and win--legislation benefiting veterans on Capitol Hill. Our large membership fulfills vital missions on behalf of veterans and active-duty service members in every community across our great nation. It is the combined strength of the Legion, Auxiliary, Riders and Sons of The American Legion that honor those who served in ways no one else can-from laying flowers at grave sites to raising funds to help military families in need. Your membership plays a critical role in sustaining American Legion programs, such as those that provide comfort items for wounded service members,scholarships and programs for young people, as well as immediate financial assistance for veterans coping with the aftermath of natural disaster or economic trouble. Your continued membership is so very important to keep our programs and services strong. If you have not renewed please do so now. Thank you if you are a current member. Please help us by reaching out to get your comrades to also renew. Are you a member that likes your post but would like to see some changes made, why not run for an office? Talk to one of the nominating committee Bob Sullivan, Joe Bustos or Mac McLaughlin and tell them what office you would like to run for at the April elections, or have a member nominate you from the floor the night of elections. NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE YOUR 2015 DUES PAID IN ORDER TO ATTEND THIS MEETING-YOU WILL BE ASKED BY THE SGT. AT ARMS TO SHOW YOUR 2015 MEMBERSHIP CARD WHEN YOU ENTER. NEW MEMBERS: Key Cards If you have trouble opening the door with your card, please follow the steps below: • When you insert your card in the lock, you will feel it stop. • When it stops, give the card just a little more of a push. • You will hear a buzz - just pull the door open. DO NOT PUSH THE HANDLE DOWN AS THIS WILL LOCK THE DOOR!! Beavers Salute Brandon M Praye - Brian R Blair Dennis C Dimbat - Steven T Young Kyle J Volk and Douglas D Bessert Oregon State Athletics has begun a new initiative this year called BeaversSalute throughout the year choosing games from various sports that we are offering free admission to all active and veteran members of the United State Armed Forces and up to 3 family members. At these events we will also be providing BeaversSalute lapel pins to all military. Below is the list of upcoming events. Please call our ticket office at (541) 737–4455 to reserve your tickets. Welcome to the Post! 1/17 – Wrestling vs. CSU Bakersfield @ 11am Dennis W Hearn - Mitchell S Matthews Allen Chamberlin - Edward Pavese John Hanan II - Bruce C Logan and Jon Carleton New SAL Members January 50/50 WINNER: Bruce Scott The #158 LOSER: Matt Dailey 1/19 – Women’s Basketball vs. Washington @ 5pm 2/21 – Men’s Basketball vs. Colorado @ 8pm Amber Stevens Administrative Assistant - American Legion Department of Oregon (& member of 158, Executive Board Member At Large) FEB 2015 News From The Auxiliary PAGE 5 Auxiliary President 1st Vice President Brenda Sherlock Helen Sullivan I hope everyone is staying warm and healthy this winter. It’s cold outside but we have a warm atmosphere inside the Post. Come down on a cold evening and spend time with friends. Come join us for a special Valentines Dinner on Saturday, February 14th. We will be having our Americanism Dinner on February 17th. If you would like to hear from our Department President Linda Liebenow, the participants of Girls State, the Fireman and Policeman of the year while having a great turkey dinner then please join us. Our District 1 President, Ardis Snyder, was with us at our last meeting and shared lots of information from the DEC meeting that she attended the previous week. There is always something to learn at the monthly meetings so please join us. 2nd Vice President Susan Hughes Another great month! Hope everyone had a great Holiday season. Our January Auxiliary breakfast was great, and our 15th annual Chili Cook-off was so much fun. It was hosted by Millie Healy. Our Unit President, Brenda Sherlock won 1st place and the people’s choice award. SAL member Pete Mapham won 2nd place and Phyllis Parent won 3rd place. I want to thank our judges, Joanne, Brenda, Rose, Byron and Steve and everyone else who donated food and desserts. Also thank you contestants. February 1st is our breakfast and February 14th Valentine’s Dinner. February 17th is Americanism Dinner. Hope to see you at the Post. Susan Hughes If you haven’t paid your 2015 dues, please do so soon, because if you come to the Legion, your card won’t work to let you in. Also, you aren’t eligible for the Saturday night drawing if your dues are delinquent. Further, the bartenders will ask to see your 2015 card. Be sure to come to the Legion on Saturday, February 14 (Valentine’s Day). The Auxiliary will be serving steak, potatoes and the trimmings. And best of all, Bernie will be cooking! Rainy Day Work Party! On Saturday the 17th Jack Galbraith had a work party to clean the post yard. If you remember it was raining quite good! Well, the work party went on despite the weather, 7 members did a great job on the yard. When you see any of them you might want to thank them. Along with Jack there was Pete Mapham, Byron Prickett, Ralph Queahpama, Bob Beasley, Steve Kimball and Harold Martin. It was mentioned that Carolyn Wojan had some credit with the landscaper and she offered to let him use it for the clean up. JANE B. ERICKSON, AEF (Auxiliary Emergency Fund) Chairman Button, Button Who’s Got the Button? Please bring any buttons (shirt, blouse, dress or pants) you don’t want to the Post for me to use for a fund-raiser in March to benefit the AEF. Put my name on them and I will get them! Joanne Harris, Chaplain As Auxiliary Chaplain, please let me know of any sickness or distress. You can send me e-mail at [email protected] or call 503 625-5143. American Legion Post #158 Post Office Box 23482 Tigard, Oregon 97281-3482 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION US POSTAGE PAID PORTLAND OREGON PERMIT 435 February Events February 1 - Superbowl Potluck February 3 - E-Board Meeting - 7pm February 4 - S A L Meeting - 7pm February 7 - Starry Nite Players - 7-9pm February 10 General/Auxiliary Meeting - 7:00 pm February 17 - Americanism Dinner - 6pm February 19 Legion Riders Meeting - 7:00 pm February 28 - Sock Hop with 50/60’s music “The Boneheads” post 158 tigard, or You know they say it takes a village to do a lot of things and I am here to assure you it does take us all working together to accomplish the task of 150 Christmas Baskets. We did assist 150 families in our community to have a better holiday time than they would have without all us working so diligently to provide their baskets. There is not enough space in our bulletin to individually thank each and every one of you who contributed so much to the preparation and distribution of the baskets and toys. Many of you spent time from a few minutes to many, many hours to assure this program was a success and I thank you all for your help. I learned a long time ago not to try to publicly thank everyone as you take the chance of forgetting someone and then their feeling are hurt. I just have to say how much I appreciate the support from those of you who started the process with donations for toys back in August to the folks who were hanging in there until the last basket was picked up on Monday the 22nd. It takes a great deal of coordination with many folks in the Legion, in the Auxiliary Unit, in the community and the businesses who support us with donations of space and time. Some of you donated time to the shifts in the grocery stores as we gave out information about our community involvement and asked for donations of food or cash. Many of you came and wrapped on the 10th and the 18th so we had great toys to give out with our baskets. Some of you were in the community when we had to load groceries, then unload them at the Post and put them all away and handle them several times in between. We could not have delivered the amount of baskets we did without the people willing to drive and help in the low income housing areas. I just want to thank you again for your very hard work and your commitment to the people in our community. We did a good job and we should be proud. ~Larrie