American Legion Post 155 Newsletter

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1 American Legion Post 155 Newsletter Issue 6 November December 2016 American Legion Post #155 Commander 1st Vice 2nd Vice Finance Officer Adjutant Chaplain Historian Sgt. At arms Service Officers Auxiliary Bob Beck Charlie Holmes Andy Carsom Rock Effron Don Hudson Bob Beck Jim Frederick Sam Haskett Tom Blanchford Doug Reynolds Steve Browne President Kym D. Olivares 1st Vice Joan Hause 2nd Vice Betsy Pope Secretary Cindi Trebing Treasurer Barb Duke Parliamentarian Linda Peine Chaplain Kathy Allen Historian Karen Todd Sgt-At-Arms Rose Nieten Executive Committee: Judy Holmes Shirley Browne ALR Director Charlie Holmes Asst.Director Bud Boyter- Secretary Judy Holmes Treasurer Teresa Perry Ride Coordinator Ty Nuckols Sgt-At-Arms Mike Perry Chaplain Connie DePadilla Communications Barry Schafer Historian Debbie Boyter Membership Teresa Perry Maddy Burrows From the Commander We now have planned for dinner and entertainment the 1 st and 3 rd Saturday of each month all the way to the New Years Eve Party on December 31 (Pitch-in & By Chance Band from 7-12 PM). Please check out the November and December calendar for the entertainment schedule. There will be several Veterans Day ceremonies on or around the 11 th of November that our Veterans will be invited to and we will team up with our VFW brothers to supply the honor Guard. Special will be sent out to members to detail event information. The 17 th of September was our Post fund raiser with great food, fun, music, and auctions. We were very successful and raised over $16, Thank you from all of us to all of our members and sponsors who donated and helped make this a great event. We are blessed to have so many talented members that rise up to help with projects that desperately need to be completed. The air conditioner is in and really makes a difference in the bar. The construction on the west side doorway, breezeway, and patio started on the 22 nd of October, please be aware and we apologize for any inconvenience. Our Post continues to enlist new Legion, Auxiliary, SAL, and ALR members. Remember to reach out and greet them. Join us for our Queen Of Hearts drawing on Fridays at pm. Our Treasure Hunt drawing has been moved to Saturdays at 8:00pm and will is open to the public. Our daily lunch specials and our dinners from Tuesday through Friday have been very popular and delicious. Come join us. Enjoy your Holiday Season and may you be happy, healthy, peaceful, and stress free. Post 155 will not be open on Thanksgiving and Christmas days so our staff can relax and enjoy their Holidays. S.A.L Our Post will begin marketing for advertising in our News Letter. See Craig for details. I continue to welcome your input, questions, and comments. My cell phone number is (317) Commander Craig Olivares and my address is boilerbob1946@att.net. 1st Vice J. R Gooch 2nd Vice John Benson God s blessings to America, our troops, and all of our Veterans and their families. Adjutant Don Merrick Finance Officer Bob Trebing Chaplain Tom Beck Bob Beck, Post 155 Commander Sgt-At-Arms John Henry Historian Jeremy Robins Hello Members and friends, Post Advisor Bob Beck Executive Committee: I am a Vietnam Veteran. I will be available to any member or non-member Veteran to advise them of their VA benefits. I also have information for spouses of veterans. Tom Ketchum Mike Perry Veteran Death benefits: Federal benefits apply if you are "Service Connected". Burial expenses $2, With $ for a headstone. And $ for plot allowance. Apply with your VA Advocate or County VA Service Representative. State Veteran Benefits: from your County Auditor up to $1, Military Honors, TAPS and US Flag, arranged by Funeral Director My cell phone number is , my address is tom.blandford@yahoo.com. You can call or me any time. Tom Blandford, Post Service Officer.

2 PAGE 2 AMERICAN LEGION POST 155 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 6 SAL Members, Our next steak dinner is on Saturday, November 5th and will feature our NY Strip, baked potato and salad bar for $14.00 from 6:00-8:00pm. The Tony Shaft Band will play from -11:00pm. We will be having a dinner on December 3, 2016, but the menu is still to be determined. I wish to thank all those who have supported the SAL by having dinner with us throughout the year. Also, thank those who have volunteered their time and energy to make this a very successful Now is the time to renew your dues for the 2017 calendar year. I wish all of our members, their families and loved ones a very safe and Happy Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year s. Craig Olivares/SAL Commander Ladies, December 9, :00pm-8:00pm the Auxiliary will be having a Christmas Bizarre as a fund raiser. If you have nice Christmas decorations that you would like to donate to be sold please bring them to the Post by November 15th. Or, if you would like to sell your own items you would pay $10.00 per table. If you have any question you can contact me at Santa will be visiting the Post on December 17th from 1:30 3:00pm. Santa is looking forward to seeing the children. Our next meeting is November 14, Don t for get to pay your 2017 dues. Kym D.Olivares, President Unit #155 Carmel American Legion Auxiliary West Main St NEEDS YOUR HELP HOMEMADE COOKIES AND CANDY NEEDED Help us make a Veteran s holiday memorable. The Auxiliary is putting together Goody Boxes for the HVAF Veterans. If you would like to donate homemade cookies and/or candy please deliver them to the Carmel American Legion Post on December 1. Thank you in advance for your generosity.

3 ISSUE 6 AME RICAN LE GION POST 155 NE WSLE TTER PAGE 3 HVAF (Hoosier Veterans Assistance Foundation) The HVAF Holiday Breakfast on December 3rd is fast approaching and we have been very busy collecting the items for the duffle bags. We are putting together 75 bags with all kinds of items for use and for fun. If you would like to donate items for the bags, we currently need microwave popcorn, hot chocolate, granola bars, cheese/crackers, large chocolate bars (no nuts), Hersey kisses, small bags of Planters peanuts, and of course, we accept monetary donations and we will do the shopping. (Items should be individually wrapped) You can leave your donation in the blue barrels at the Post. We will once again also be collecting homemade cookies and candies to wrap for each Veteran. If you would like to donate cookies/candy you can drop them off at the Post on December 1st. If you can t drop them off please contact me and we will be glad to pick them up. Also, remember they still need gently used winter coats, hats, gloves, warm/thermal socks and long johns. As always, your donations can be left in the blue barrels at the Post. We thank you in advance for your continued support. Our Veterans and the Auxiliary truly appreciate your help. Judy Holmes HVAF Committee Chairman, American Legion Unit #155 (317) (317) AMERICAN LEGION RIDERS Our Summer Cookouts are over for the year. We served an average of 55 dinners each cookout. Thank all of you who supported and supports the Riders throughout the year. Also, thanks to all the Riders who volunteered their time and worked to make each cookout a success. Grill will be fired up again May Hope to see you again next year. With the holidays upon us, we are again looking for a Veteran family that would like/need assistance with food, gifts, clothing, etc. We have our own built in Santa, now we just need a family. If you know of someone please let us know ( ). We are always very discreet with the information. Next riders Bike Night Dinner will be at Chuy s in Hamilton Town Center. We meet at 6:30 with dinner at. Reminder that our meetings are the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30. Charlie Holmes, ALR Director

4 PAGE 4 NEWSLETTER TITLE ISSUE 6 HANNAH UPDATE Since many of you were and have been so generous with donations, prayers and well wishes to help my greatniece Hannah, I thought I would give an update on her progress. I have been periodically posting updates on the bulletin board at the Post but for those of you who don t visit the Post often here is the latest from her Mom. My family is very grateful and thankful for everything everyone has done and is doing to help this precious little girl get back to as normal as possible. Judy Holmes INCHING ALONG Hannah continues to impress with her endurance. She is able to accept hours of therapy each day. I m still waiting for a lightbulb moment where she realizes that she wants to run, or wants to walk, or crawl, or laugh, or anything awesome that a three year old does. It seems sometimes that she s forgotten that her body is capable of lots of movement. And that she s supposed to do these things. But the truth is, maybe she has forgotten. Who knows. Her memory may likely be gone. However, she is still making that beautiful silvery snail trail. She has all but stopped grinding her teeth. She continues to swallow well, but not super quickly. She is still on a feeding tube. She s vocalizing more. And is smirking and smiling more also. She has started pre-school and seems to be thriving. I can see her face light up when she hears the other kids voices. She likes being part of a classroom and her teachers, aides, nurse, and school therapists are AMAZING! We use the cold laser almost every day. Averaging about 30 minutes each day. I do think that it s helping her progress in ways she might not have without it. (I mentioned in the last post, but in case any inquiring minds want to know more: And I am still blown away by the constant support of friends and family. Thank you to everyone who continues to reach out and lift us up. We are forever grateful!

5 ISSUE 6 NEWSLETTER TITLE PAGE 5 COLTS VS MINNESOTA TAILGATING BREAKFAST December 18, 2016 Tailgating starts 11:am Game is at 1:00pm Come join us for another Football breakfast/brunch tailgate. Jim Wilson will again be making his famous IT and Charlie Holmes will be making the gravy. May even be a few other items added to the menu. Hang around and cheer our Colts to beat the Vikings! Come learn to play Mahjong Pat Lesher, a fellow Auxiliary member, will be giving lessons on how to play Mahjong each Saturday in November at 10:30 AM at the Post. If you have any questions you can reach Pat at If you are interested, no need to call or register, just show up. Now available $10.00 gift certificates. Great for Christmas gifts. Please see the Bartender. WANTED We are in the process of getting as many s from our members as possible. One of the reasons is that we can drastically save on the cost of producing our newsletters. The April-May issue cost over $ Another reason to use s is, so we can communicate to our members weekly events, specials and notices. This will enable you to become more aware of activities throughout our normal news cycle. We will publish our lunch and dinner specials every Monday for the upcoming week, along with other events such as bands, special dinners etc. If you are interested, please call Craig at or Craig at: ClubManager@AmericanLegionPost155.org.

6 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 5 Mahjong 10:30am - SAL DINNER 6-8 Tony Shaff Band 7-11 Costume Party 12 Early Bird Bkst 8:30 Majhong 10:30am 19 Mahjong 10:30 LEGION Dinner 6-8 Felicia Joi Mahjong 10:30 NO TEXAS HOLD EM November Weekly Draw 3 LEGION Mtg. 4 6 COLTS VS PACKERS 4:30PM 7 Free Appetizers 6: Weekly Draw ALR Mtg. 6: Monthly Drawing 3:00 14 Free Appetizers 6: Weekly Draw COLTS VS TITANS 1:00PM 21 SAL Mtg Weekly Draw 24 CLOSED Weekly Draw

7 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 3 SAL Dinner 6-8 Roy Flanner Band 50 s ThemeCostumes 10 31NEW YEARS EVE PARTY BY CHANCE BAND FOOD PITCH-IN \ NO TEXAS HOLD EM December LEGION Mtg COLTS VS JETS 8: ALR Mtg. 6:30 Weekly Draw 8 9 Christmas Bazaar COLTS VS TEXANS 1:00PM Monthly Draw 3:00 12 AUXILIARY Mtg Weekly Draw COLTS VS VIKINGS 1PM Wilson s Tailgating Breakfast 11:00am 19 NO SAL Mtg Weekly Draw Santa 1:30-3:00pm Karaoke/Jayme 24 COLTS VS RAIDERS 4:00PM Treasure Hunt 6:00 CHRISTMAS NO TEXAS HOLD EM 25 CLOSED Weekly Draw 29 30

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