Good Day Post #57
Member!
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDER:
Hi
everyone, we’re back!!! For those that
didn’t know, my wife and I were gone for a couple of weeks. One of which was in
Another
item we picked up on is that many Legionnaires are unaware of their benefits as
veterans and as members of the American Legion.
In past newsletters I have touched on a couple of our Legionnaire
benefits concerning insurance programs and discounts at certain pharmacies,
however, there are many more and we will be sending out a special mailing of
pamphlets to ensure you are apprised of them.
The discount on prescriptions is not in conjunction with insurance. If your insurance will pay for the
prescription, you don’t get an additional discount. However, if your insurance will not cover a
specific prescription, then you can use the discount by showing your Legion
card at participating pharmacies. As for
veteran’s issues and benefits, our newsletter editor has placed many tidbits of
information in the newsletters and will continue to do so as she receives the
information. Also, our service officer,
Al Walsh, is available to assist veterans, by appointment, in filling out VA
claim forms and helping find out other information from the VA that may fall
under his purview as service officer.
Finally,
thanks to all those that have renewed their membership and our new
members. As of this writing I am happy
to report that although there are still some members that have not renewed, we
have exceeded the 100 % membership goal.
If you are one of the few that hasn’t renewed I personally would like to
know why not and what we can do to improve so you will want to be a
member. Remember this is your post and
we are here to help veterans and the community.
Douglas Gorniak
Commander
POST NEWS
Our
post meeting was on 16 November and our next meeting is 21 December at
The
Post is having a 50/50 drawing for Christmas.
At the current rate of sales, the prize should be $50 for the
winner. Tickets are $1 each or 6 for
$5. Buy them at the Post. Drawing will be on 12 December during
Bingo. (Note: no tickets will be sold during Bingo.)
Here’s a good news
story: a member of our Post applied for
and got his Combat Related Special Compensation (
LADIES AUXILIARY
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT:
Happy
Holidays to All,
Where
this year has gone, I have no idea. Here
we are again in December and if I don’t get started there won’t be a visit from
Santa. Anyway, I would like to welcome
our newest member Rosemary Gorniak, our Commander’s sister.
We went
to the Fall Conference November 5-7 and had a very enjoyable time. I brought back a lot of packets on our
projects. Ladies, I need you to step
forward and help do these programs—one person can’t do it.
Don’t
forget our New Year’s Eve party and raffle.
We have some wonderful prizes and the winning tickets will be drawn on
New Year’s Eve at the party so buy tickets and good luck! You don’t have to be present to win.
On
this short happy note, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe and
happy New Year. God bless everyone.
Peggy
Gasdorf
Auxiliary
President
AUXILIARY
NEWS
Greeting and Happy Holidays to all our Legion Family from the New
Year’s Eve Dance Committee.
This
New Year’s Eve Dance on 31 December will be somewhat different. The Auxiliary will sponsor the Dance and the
Post will be in charge of the No-Host Bar.
Proceeds from each will go the respective departments.
R.S.V.P.
tickets for the Dance are different this year.
We hope the change will not inconvenience you. Enclosed with the newsletter are two
tickets. The tickets are for $10
each. Each ticket will admit one adult
to the Dance. Additional tickets are available
if needed.
If
you purchase the tickets but don’t plan to attend, please advise us. This will help us in planning seating
arrangement, appetizers and champagne.
At
this printing, plans are for the music to be canned so if you have a favorite
song on CD or cassette, feel free to bring it.
Be sure you have your name on both the case and the music. If you have any questions, please call Maxine
Bowling at
LETTER
FROM THE EDITOR:
Here
are a couple of scams everyone needs to be aware of.
I
want to thank Jim Boyd, one of our newest members, for passing this information
on to me. A new scam that has arisen involving credit cards and called “The Switch.” A couple of quick examples
of how your credit card could be switched for a similar expired card. Guy goes to the gym, puts his belongings in a
locker and goes and does his thing. When
he gets back to his locker he sees it open.
He checks through his wallet and all looks okay. A few weeks later he gets his credit card
bill with $14,000 worth of charges on it.
Calls the credit card company and they find no mistake and asked if his
card had been stolen. He says no but
when he checks his wallet, he finds that another similar expired card was in
its place. Bottom line, since he didn’t
report the card stolen earlier, he ended up having to pay $9,000 of the
bill. This second scenario probably is
more relevant to most of us. Man pays
for a meal at a restaurant with his credit card. When he gets it back, he just happens to look
at it and realizes it’s not his but a similar expired card. He calls the waitress and she looks
perplexed. She takes the card back,
apologizing. She hurries back to the
counter under the watchful eye of the gentleman. All the waitress did whilst walking to the
counter was she waved the wrong expired card to the counter cashier and the
counter cashier immediately looked down and took out the real card. No exchange of words...nothing.... She took
it and returned it to the gentleman with apologies.
Verdict:
make sure the credit cards in your wallet are yours! Check the name on the card every time you
sign for something and is taken away for even a short period of time. Many of us would just take back our credit
card without even looking at it, thinking that it has to be ours.
For
your own sake, DEVELOP THE HABIT TO CHECK YOUR CREDIT
Another
scam that I’ve been made aware of comes from more Legion family members, John
and Paul Smith. This one involves the
phone and calling the area code 809. How
does it work? You’ll receive a message
on your answering machine or page asking you to call a number beginning with
the area code 809. The reason you’re
asked to call will involve something with a family member or that you’ve won a
prize. If you call from the
Thanks
again to Jim Boyd and John & Paula Smith for emailing me the warnings on
these scams!
MONTHLY
TRIVIA: November Newsletter: Are you required to destroy the
This
month’s question: Are there penalties
for the physical desecration of the
ITEMS
OF INTEREST (if interested in an item listed, contact the Post for further
information)
TRICARE
Retiree Dental Plan (
Retirees
Action Office (RAO) Bulletins, dated 30 October: DFAS to mail out 1099R and
Scholarships
for Military Children program enters 5th year.
The scholarship program is open to unmarried children under the age of
21 (23 if enrolled in school) of active duty personnel, Reserve, Guard and
retired military. Eligibility will be determined using the Defense Enrollment
Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) database. Applicants should ensure that
they, as well as their sponsor, are currently enrolled in the DEERS database
and have a current ID card.
[Source: Air Force Retiree News,
President
signs bill that eliminates
VA
expands benefits for ex-POWs. The
decision benefits former POWs with strokes and most heart diseases. Those veterans will be automatically eligible
for disability compensation for those common ailments, and their spouses and
dependents will be eligible for service-connected survivors' benefits if these
diseases contribute to the death of a former POW. [Source:
Air Force Retiree News,
UPCOMING
EVENTS TO PUT ON YOUR CALENDAR:
24-25 December
2004, NO POST SOCIAL
If
you have an article or piece of information that you think would be of interest
to the whole Post, let me know and I will include it in the first newsletter
after receiving the information. You can
get me the information by emailing me, dropping it off at the Post or mailing
it to the Post at
Do
you have an email address? Have you sent
it to me? If not, please do so. My email address is rockin_g@netzero.com
Make
sure you let me know who you are when you send me the email so I know whom the
email address belongs to.
Yvonne Gorniak
Yvonne Gorniak
Editor
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