Good
Day Post #57 Member!
If
you missed the 18 May meeting, you missed the elections! Here are our 2004-2005 officers:
From
the left:
Douglas
Gorniak, Commander; John Sydow, Senior Vice
Commander; Herb Cowper, Sergeant of Arms;
Yvonne
Gorniak, Finance Officer; Spence Estus, Chaplain;
Dick Bowling, 3-year Trustee; Ty Narada,
2-year Trustee; Barry Sharp, Adjutant; Al Walsh, Service Officer. Missing are Terry Roberts, Junior Vice
Commander, Jim Roscoe, Historian and Ed Newcomb, 1-year Trustee
The
Auxiliary also had their elections but didn’t take a photo of the officers
since all of them were re-elected for another year. The officers for the Auxiliary are: Peggy Gasdorf,
President; Bernadine Sydow, Senior Vice President;
Dolly Sharp, Second Vice President; Maria Gregolynskyj,
Secretary; Maxine Bowling, Treasurer; Dorothy Cowper, Chaplin; Kelly Walsh,
Historian; Ann McCullough, Executive Committee; and Lucy Kreutzer, Sergeant of
Arms. Congratulations to all of you!
And
as far as elections go, Lucy Kreutzer was elected District President and Barry
Sharp was re-elected District Junior Vice
Commander. CONGRATULATIONS to you
both!!!!
Our
next meeting is 15 June at
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDER:
As your new Commander, first I would like to say
thanks to all of you for putting your trust in me. I would also like to thank to the departing
Commander Frank Cedillo for a job well done. Last year we had a great recruiting year. We picked up quite a few new members thanks
all that recruited new members but especially to Yvonne Gorniak, who received
her Brieden Ranger pin for recruiting 5 new members
and Barry Sharp who is waiting for his pin.
This upcoming year I hope will be the year of participation. We have already seen an increase of about 100
% in participation at Legion meetings, averaging about 18 members. We are hoping to see even more at meetings,
as well as, to the quarterly social. In
our short two years here there are many members my wife and I haven’t met yet,
so come out to the social and let us shake your hand and personally thank you
for being a member of Post 57, and see some old friends that you may not have
seen for a while and just talk. I hope
to see many of you at the May 29th Prayer Breakfast to help us Honor
our WW II Veterans, something that has been too long in coming. I personally am looking forward to hearing
our guest speakers share some of their personnel experiences from that era. Finally, over the next year I plan on having
Commanders Comments in every issue of the Ash Fork Legionnaire hopefully
covering a variety of subjects of interest.
Douglas
Gorniak
Commander
LADIES
AUXILIARY
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT:
I wish to thank each and every one
of our hard workers. There are so many
to thank for all they have done, it’s hard to name all of you. Just to name a few; to Ann, “Queen of Trash”
and her crew, who put on our Yard Sale; to Bernadine, Vice President, the
mistress of the Cash Register and membership, for the great meals for our
meetings; to Maria, our Secretary, for the beautiful records of all our
meetings; to Maxine, our “Lady of all Trades”, for being our treasurer,
carpenter, decorator, painter, etc.; to Dolly Sharp, for all the wonderful food
and donations, for always standing by in case Bernadine or I can’t make it to a
meeting; to Dorothy Cowper for all the heavenly prayers and yummy cakes she
makes; and to our Past President Lucy, for the beautiful sweaters and donations
of all her wonderful cooking. To all of
you, thank you so much.
Without our members, we would be just another
Auxiliary. However, ours is very
special. We have been first in
Good luck to all my officers and
thank you for taking the office you have been elected to.
One last thank you goes to our Post
for being there, backing and supporting our Auxiliary. Thanks to Commander Doug, Adjutant Barry,
Finance Officer Yvonne and all the officers and members of Post 57.
Don’t forget our Bake Sale on 12
June. We need donations and buyers.
Peggy
Gasdorf
Auxiliary
President
POST NEWS
The
Post is finished!! The Post is
finished!! All we are waiting on is the
inspector to do the final inspection. If
you haven’t seen it, stop by during business hours (Mon-Wed,
The
Spaghetti Dinner went great! If you missed
it, you missed some good food and good company.
Look for the pictures in the Ash Fork On-Line. Georgia Herhold was
there with her camera. As with every
first time project, we had a learning curve.
Keep the garlic bread warm in the oven, good idea. Keeping it set at 350, bad idea. And we also had a delay because of cooking
more noodles. I think we have those
“problems” under control and we should do much better next time. If you were there and even if you weren’t, if
you have any inputs to help us do a better job, just let us know!! We will be having another one soon, so stay
tuned!
Poppy Program. The Auxiliary will be out with
the Poppies at different locations. Make
sure you stop and introduce yourself, get your Poppy and maybe make a donation. All funds go to support veterans’ programs.
Don’t
forget, our Prayer Breakfast to honor our WWII veterans is 29 May, Prayer
Breakfast,
Memorial
Day Ceremony at Cemetery, 31 May 2004.
The ceremony is at
Pioneer
Day is 5 June and we will be marching in the parade. Meet at the Post at
Rummage Sale and Bake
Don’t
forget out Community Social, which starts at
Independence Day Barbecue, 3 July,
Compact
Remote Control Stereo System (Turntable, AM/FM Receiver, 3-Band Graphic
Equalizer, Dual Stereo Cassette Deck with matching speakers
Tickets
are enclosed for both the barbecue and the raffle. Please purchase what you need and try to sell
the rest. On the raffle tickets, have
the purchaser put their name and phone number on the half of the ticket to be
put in the drawing jug and give the other half of the ticket to them. If you need more tickets, just let us know
and we will get them to you. Winners of
raffle need not be present to win.
LETTER
FROM THE EDITOR:
As
we honor our WWII veterans and are soon to celebrate Independence Day, it
brings to mind the oath that our newest citizens take when they celebrate their
independence as a citizen of this great nation.
My Father took this oath in 1944 when he became a citizen. He was a pilot in WWII with our allies in
I hereby declare, on oath, that I
absolutely and entirely renounce prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of
whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support
and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of American against
all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required
by the law; that I will perform non-combatant service in the Armed Forces of
the United States when required by the law; that I will peform
work of national importance under civilian directions when required by the law;
and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or
purpose of evasion, so help me God.
How many of us would be willing to take this oath
today? I hope this answer is each and everyone of us. I
know I would.
MONTHLY
TRIVIA: Who has been a member of
post 57 the longest? Answer next
newsletter.
ITEMS
OF INTEREST (if interested in an item listed, contact the Post for further
information)
Are
you eligible for Medicare (including disability recipients)? Are you a low income senior (individual less
than $18,000 or household less than $24,000 per year)? Then the Arizona CoppeRx
Card can save you money on prescriptions. (Information from State of
VA Secretary to Announce CARES Decisions. CARES stands for Capital Asses Realignment
for Enhanced Service. Decisions include construction
of new medical centers in
Attention
Retirees: The Air Force has changed its
Space A Lodging policy. Depending on their projected occupancy, they
may take reservations up to 30 days in advance for up to three-night
accommodations. And Priority 1 customers
will not “bump” Priority 2 (space A) customers with confirmed reservations or
once they are assigned quarters for a specific period of time. The only exception to this would be in times
of contingency, emergency, or when the installation commander determines higher
priority exists. (Information from Air
Force Retiree News)
VA
Announces Changes for
The
American Legion Post 87 in
RAO
Bulletin 15 May 2004 contains the following articles:
Are
you a service-disabled veteran interested in opening your own business? New regulations create contracting
opportunities. (Source: SBA News Release Number
Military Retiree? Updates to
TRICARE include Uniform Formulary final rule published. All beneficiaries who are eligible for
TRICARE For Life will soon receive a letter from the
Wisconsin Physicians Service (
Interested
in seeing the USAF Thunderbirds? They
are scheduled to be at Nellis AFB,
UPCOMING
EVENTS TO PUT ON YOUR CALENDAR:
29 May 2004, WWII Prayer Breakfast,
17-20 June 2004, Department
Convention in
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
Post 57