Auxiliary President – Ginny Lucero – 505-453-7401
In January we donated:
$150.00 to the Open Arms Pregnancy Center
$40.00 a month to help the Legion with the cost of printing the newsletter and calendars
Our mid-year conference will be held in Albuquerque at the Ramada Hotel on Menaul on February 8-9, 2020. We will get an update on reports and learn more about what each Unit is doing. If you would like to join us, please call me so you can get registered.
Our next bake sale will on February 8 during the monthly breakfast.
Monday, February 17 ladies lunch will be held at El Faro at 11:30 a.m. look for more information from Nancy and to sign up.
Our monthly meeting is Saturday, February 15 at 10:30 a.m. everyone is welcome and invited to attend.
Don’t forget that we have an aluminum can recycle trailer on Hwy 195 by the Amberjack sign. You’ll see a new recycle trailer as our high school students have repaired and repainted the can trailer.
We collect box tops (please make sure they haven’t expired) & Campbell soup labels for Education, as well as Bullock’s receipts.
For all other Post activities, please pick up a calendar and newsletter.
Membership – Linda Nenno
Thank you to those who have renewed for 2020. The dues are still $40/year, and help us continue the programs that serve Veterans and their families. Membership is our most important program, since without members, we cease to exist. Tell your non-member friends about us, what we do, and encourage them to join if they are eligible. Come by the Post and pick up a calendar and plan to attend some of our special events. Carry a membership application in your purse. You, as a member, know we have some really good things going on at the Post, and we always have a lot of fun, so spread the word. As of January 25, we have 316 paid members. That is 90% of our final goal of 350 by June 1. We CAN make it to 100% if we work hard. Remember, door cards changed January 1, and you will not be able to get a new one without a 2020 card.
Chaplains Corner Maurene Propst
PRAYER FOR AMERICA: Strengthen our devotion to Thy teachings and make us worthy of the citizenship, which these young people are fighting to maintain. Bless those in authority in our city, state, and nation with wisdom to know and strength to do their duties honestly and well. Hear our prayer, Our Father, help us and bless us. AMEN
PRAYERS FOR HEALING:
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THINKING OF YOU:
Caitlin Carlton
Marty Novak
Pat Knull
Susan McNutt
OUR CONDOLENCES:
Georgette Schoenberger loss of brother-in-law
Delilah Pacheco loss of mother in house fire
Linda Anderson loss of husband
O GOD THE STRENGTH OF THE WEAK AND THE COMFORT OF SUFFERERS, MERCIFULLY ACCEPT OUR PRAYERS ON BEHALF OF OUR COMRADES AND LOVED ONES WHO ARE ILL OR SHUT-IN. AMEN
Care Packages – Marty Novak
We sent 16 large boxes filled with salsa, socks, ramen noodles, hot chocolate, protein packs, jerky and much, much more to our deployed men and women. Thanks to all who came to help. The JROTC cadets were unable to join us to help pack the boxes in January because it was their first day back at school after Christmas break. They plan to join us again in February. We always appreciate these young people helping us with this project. One day we may be sending packages to some of them.
Thanks also to Pam Carlton and her kindergarten/1st grade class at Manzano Christian School for the cards they made for the Care Packages and to Becky Burcher for bringing us pictures made by the children from the Elementary School. These little “gifts” from the children are special to our deployed troops. One of the men, who shared in a box we had sent to someone else read the letter from Pam and the drawings her students made, was so impressed and touched that he called the school to thank them. Unfortunately, they were on break and couldn’t take the call, so he emailed them his thanks and a picture. He said he had “posted the letters and drawings on the bulletin board by the Operations Desk in the squadron as a reminder.” That’s why we continue to send these Care Packages each month.
Thanks to our American Legion Family for the help and support they give us, to the members, non-members, groups, organizations, and business of our community for their monetary donations, memorials and donations of supplies.
Our next Care Package day is February 12th. Come join us at 10:30 on February 12th and help us pack. We are usually finished in 1 hour. Anyone is welcome to come help us pack. It’s lots of fun.
What is a Veteran: A Veteran…whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve…is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America” for an amount of “up to, and including his/her life.” That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country today, who no longer understand that act..