Auxiliary President – Sharon Pierson  

• NMSVH Resident’s Dinner night: February 5^th we were pleased to welcome 7 residents and 2 helpers from the veteran’s home for Wednesday night dinner. Sue Barr sang “God Bless the USA” and several Post members and visitors from the Veteran’s Home formed a circle, holding hands and sang along. The residents are a joy to work with and they appear to have a good time. If you haven’t had a chance to stop by the Post on the first Wednesday of the month and welcome these visitors from the NMSVH then you are missing out. Please join us on March 5^th and say “hello, thank you for your service”.
• Mid-Winter Conference: We had 4 representatives at this year’s Mid-Winter conference in Roswell: Nancy Palladino, Liz Foster, Linda Nenno and Sharon Pierson. We all had a great time, learned a lot, joined Unit 44’s “Chain of Unity” to everyone else’s, collected little “aliens” and laughed at the “Spud” skit performed by the District Presidents – great job Liz!.
• Buddy Baskets: Eva Baca and Sheila Pickett have delivered 3 more Buddy Baskets to veterans just arriving at the Oak Street project. These 2 members have turned out to be great shoppers and are doing a wonderful job for our Unit and District 7.
• Poppy Poster & Americanism Essay Contests: We have received our first batch of Americanism essays and are getting closer to the cutoff date. Calls we’ve received from various schools, with questions, etc, suggests we should have another great batch of essays and posters! We’ll have a very short turnaround time so we can certainly use some help. All the essays and posters are due to us by April 1^st and we must have our winners chosen and turned in to Department by April 15^th so, please if you are interested in judging either essays or posters please contact Sharon Pierson at (575) 740-3639 or skpierson@live.com.

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• Potholders: Whew! We’ve got a great group of gals churning out potholders like crazy and we’ve already sold nearly $150 worth of them – and that is just at the Post! We’ve sold so many we need to make a lot more so we’ll have enough to sell at the Craft Fair at the end of March. If you’d like to join us at the Post for “potholder making sessions” just give me a call (575) 740-3639 and I’ll let you know when the next session is. If you don’t sew, we’ll hand you a pair of scissors, if you don’t like cutting out material you can press seams with the iron, and if you don’t want to do that just come have a drink at the Post and visit with us while we work!
• Certificates of Appreciation: We’ve been out and about presenting certificates of appreciation to local businesses for supporting the American Legion Auxiliary and our Unit and for selling products “Made In America”. So far we have given certificates to

1. The Herald & the Sentinel – for all the articles and photos they publish for Post and Unit 44 on a regular basis
2. Angie Majewicz – for all her hard work on our web site, you should check it out because she has made us look fabulous
3. Elephant Butte Post Office – for processing all our Care Packages every month and doing it with a smile
4. Family Dollar Store & Martha’s Gifts – for selling products made in the United States.

If you know of an individual or business you feel should receive a Certificate of Appreciation from Unit 44, please let me know and we’ll make it happen.

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  NMSVH Valentine’s Day Party:  Two unit members spent an afternoon decorating the Veteran’s Home cafeteria for Valentine’s Day and several members were on hand to help with the Party. Jan Bill, one of our newer members, made a hand beaded bracelet for each female resident – thank you Jan, they loved them. We served refreshments and passed out goody bags, red beaded necklaces and handmade cards. The highlight of the Party was the crowning of the NMSVH “Sweethearts”.
  

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Auxiliary President – Sharon Pierson  

• NMSVH Resident’s Dinner night: January 8^th we were pleased to welcome 9 residents and 2 helpers from the veteran’s home for Wednesday night dinner. Jim Carrons did a wonderful rendition of “God Bless the USA” and everyone at the Post – including our visitors from the Veteran’s Home – got into the spirit by singing along and joining hands. A big thank you to Brian & Sally Nikiforow, Kathy Norton, Cyndi Wipf, Ginny Lucero, Johanna Roberts, Marty Novak and so many others for not only welcoming our visitors but helping them get seated and served their meals and drinks. Thanks also to the bar staff for their continued patience and assistance every month. It is a group effort to host these veterans each month but well worth the effort when you see the smiles on their faces and hear the heartfelt “thank-you’s” as they leave.
• Bake Sale: We continued with our fundraising bake sales on January 11^th and raised more than $100 this month for our Girls State and Junior’s programs. I know everyone was really tired of baking after the holidays  . . . but, thank you, thank you, thank you! Everyone gets a break from baking this February (since we’ll be at Mid-Winter conference) but I hope those who do not attend the conference will still participate in the “Virtual” bake sale to be held on February 8^th at the Post.
• Buddy Baskets: As most of you know this is an ongoing District 7 project this year and Eva Baca and Sheila Pickett, 2 of our Las Cruces members, have stepped up and are preparing the Buddy Baskets for the Oak Street Veteran’s Project in Las Cruces. They are also staying in touch with them and advising us of the needs there. Thank you Eva & Sheila for all the hard work!
• Poppy Poster & Americanism Essay Contests: This month we continued visiting local schools in preparation for this year’s contests. We also presented last year’s State and National winners with their checks and certificates.  We are expanding our efforts this year to include the Hot Springs High School, the TorC Middle School and the Hatch Valley Elementary Schools. Several members spent (many, many) hours cutting and preparing posters for the Sierra County schools, as they could not afford to provide their students with poster board for the competition. Many more are needed and anyone who would be willing to help prepare the remaining posters please contact Sharon Pierson (740-3639). We are also looking for members to help judge the Poppy posters and the Americanism essays which are due to us on April 1^st. If you are interested please contact Sharon Pierson.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Chain of Accomplishments: Many of you worked on our chain for School of Instruction . . . well, now it is time to finish the job and prepare our chain for Mid-Winter conference. We’ll be gathering at the Post on February 1^st at 1pm to cut strips, write, staple, or glue our accomplishments into a chain to take to our Department President in Roswell. Please join us if you can and add your accomplishments to our chain.
• NMSVH Residents for dinner: The residents are again joining us on the first Wednesday of February for dinner (Feb.5^th). If you’d care to join us in welcoming and serving these wonderful and special individuals please do so. It is a very rewarding experience.
• BUNCO: Bunco is on February 13^th at 1pm – PLEASE join us for this fundraiser – it is a lot of fun and if you get the most Bunco’s, the most Funco’s or (believe it or not) the most losses, you win a cash prize!
• NMSVH Valentine’s Day Party: The veteran’s home Valentine’s Day party starts at 2:30pm on February 14^th and the staff is short handed and asking for our help. If you have the time please stop by and help serve refreshments and fun to our deserving veterans.
• TorC Veteran’s Wall / Museum: Ladies the museum desperately needs help. If you have any interest in helping out please give Maggie Allen a call at 740-1650. They have 2 shifts, 10:00am-1:00pm and 1:00pm-4:00pm, and need help EVERY day, including Saturday. If you can give 3 hours a week or more please call Maggie.
• Deck the Halls: On February 3^rd at 2pm well be decorating for Valentine’s Day and again on February 17^th at 1pm we’ll be decorating for Mardi Gras. We always have a lot of fun “decking the halls” and would love to see you there. Continue reading →