American Legion Post 379
1245 North Industrial Blvd
Bedford, TX 76021
817.267.6047
www.hebtxpost379.org
NEWSLETTER
COMMANDER’S MESSAGE
Our elections are over and your offices of the Year
2014-2015 have been installed. Congratulations to
the incoming Legion, Auxiliary and SAL Officers.
You each have been elected by your peeers. I look
forward to working all of you this coming year.
I'm asking that the three "C's" be our guide this year.
Let’s
COMMUNICATE,
COOPERATE
be
CONSIDERATE of each other. We are a "closed"
Post, we are not open to the public. You have had to
earn the right to come through our front door by
serving Honorable in the Armed Forces of the
United States. We need new members, yes, but we
also need more participation from our membership
starting with our Officers.
Let’s put the PRIDE back into Post 379. I'm proud to
be an American Veteran and I'm proud to me a
member of American Legion Post 379. I'm damn
Proud to have been elected Commander of Post
379, the largest Post in Tarrant County and the 2nd
largest in the State of Texas. With this new team of
Officers, I expect to be the Commander of the
largest Post next year.
There will not be a General Membership meeting in
July.
For God and Country,
David Eagan – Commander
[email protected]
AUXILIARY NEWS
There will not be an ALA General Membership
meeting on July 3rd. The next ALA General
Membership meeting will be held in August. There
will be an ALA Executive Board meeting on July
17th..
JULY 2014
I wish all of the new officers a very successful year.
Listed below are the new ALA Officers for the year
2014 to 2015:
President – Kathy Bigley
1st Vice - Mary Hall
2nd Vice - Doris Hammond
Secretary – Judy Davidson
Treasurer – Sharon Nesteriak
Chaplain – Tillie Owens
Sgt at Arms – Wendy Zelmer
Historian – Vacant
Executive Board:
Judy Evans
Marva McConnell
CC Cantrell
Karen Burks (Past Unit President)
I want to thank all of the American Legion Auxiliary
Officers and Members for all of the hard work you
did this past year. Because of each of you the Unit
was very successful of reaching their program goals.
We were able to take care of a lot of Veterans and
their families.
Please review the American Legion Post 379
Calendar for the meals that the Auxiliary will be
cooking in June. The proceeds go to all of our
programs for the year.
Signing off for the last time - God bless each of you
and thank you for supporting our past, present and
future Veterans.
Karen Burks – Unit 379 President
817-235-5717 [email protected]
JOIN US ON THE 4TH
We will be grilling up complementary hamburgers & hot
dogs and will begin serving about 1pm.
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
We rounded out the year with a 94% membership
within the SAL (132 members). With the help of you
and every squadron member I hope we can achieve
100% for the 2014-2015 year.
CELEBRATING & SERVING OUR VETERANS
You did it ladies! Once again we are the Largest
Auxiliary Unit in the state of Texas. We want to
continue to be the largest Unit in TEXAS to match
our Legion. But only you can make this happen.
Remember it is the price your veteran paid that
allows us to continue our programs to serve our
veterans and their families. Your renewals show our
support of Your Veterans and our Troops. It shows
in our numbers. THANK YOU, to all of you who
renewed for 2014 and welcome to our new
members.
We missed a lot of you at our June fish fry. We will
take a break for the month of July (due to the
holiday and other events at the Legion). Please join
us starting back in August (1st Saturday evening of
every month) for the SAL fish fry.
Currently we have suspended the SAL Meat Raffle
for the summer and will pick back up in September.
Everyone at the Post seems to enjoy the Meat
Raffle.
As I have said before, even if you are unable to
physically donate time, your dues help to continue
the above programs for our veterans and our troops.
By the time this Article comes out the Post would
have had their officer’s installation. It was a great
turn out. After the installation, the night was filled
with joy and happiness by all.
For those of you who have asked about paid up for
life membership, here are the current rates:
Age
18 – 24
25 – 29
30 – 39
40 – 49
PULF
$1,110.00
$1,059.00
$1,007.00
$ 889.00
Age
50 – 59
60 – 69
70 – 79
80 & Over
SAL 2014-2015 Officers:
Commander: David Owens
1st Vice: Terry Bigley
2nd Vice: Open
Finance Officer: Doug Bergh
Adjutant: Daniel Fallon
Historian: Logan Bradley
Sgt @ Arms: Robert Bowles
Legion Advisor: Jim “Bo” Riney
PUFL
$ 767.00
$ 612.00
$ 451.00
$ 296.00
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our JULY BABIES: Tessa
Barnhill, Jr. Aux.; Margie Cardwell; Molly Coyle;
Patricia Croxen; Clara Dwyer; Marion Edwards; Jan
Engle; Corinne Evans; Paula Fallon; Tarah Finch,
Jr. Aux.; Georgia Hill; Beverly Hines; Evelyn Leach;
Misti Luzon; Marva McConnell; June Montgomery;
Eileen Polen; Patricia Pulford; Shelly Rabe; Sylvia
Riney; Britney Roberts, Jr. Aux.; Shelby Rogers, Jr.
Aux.; Diane Rowlett; Michelle Tarbush; Rylee
Melacon, Jr. Aux.; Julia Zaunbrecher, Jr. Aux.;
Christine Clark; Barbara West; Michelle DeSpain;
Gena Oehlert; Cindy Hanson; Roxie Lunch, Jr. Aux.;
Layla Page, Jr. Aux.; Jayne Skoney; Bonnie
Whiting; Josie Laster; Pauline Lundquist; Debbie
Crawford; Vickie Whitaker; Sharron Riffle.
I encourage each one of our members to sign up
one new person this year.
Hope to see each and every one at the
Post….Happy 4th of July, please have fun with family
and friends and be safe!
Squadron Commander
David Owens
Regular events for the month:
Sunday – Happy Hour Prices all day
Monday – Special prices for the ladies
Tuesday – $1.00 Draft all day
Thursday – 1st Thurs General membership 7pm
2nd Thurs 40 & 8 7pm
2nd SAL Meets at 7pm
3rd Thurs Legion Executive Board 7:00pm
Friday –
See calendar for dinner & entertainment
Saturday – Breakfast Buffet 8:30am
Shuffleboard 2:00 PM
SAL Meat Raffle 2:30pm
See calendar for dinner & entertainment
Service not Self
Mary Hall, Membership Chairman
817/980-1900 - [email protected]
SAL NEWS
Greetings from your newly elected SAL
Commander, David Owens. I would like to take this
time to thank everyone for your support and look
forward to this next year.
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