Good Day Post #57
Member!
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDER:
Well,
another year has passed and it has been a good one. We hit a 112% on membership making us the
first in the district to reach the 100% goal.
Thanks to all of you. Now, for
those of you that didn’t make the New Years Eve bash hosted by the Auxiliary,
you missed a great time. Thank you
ladies we’re looking forward to the next one!
This
past Sunday although a good day for me because I won at bingo, was also a sad
day because we had to say see you later to Richard and Alva Brown. They purchased a residence in North Dakota
and this was their last bingo with us.
They have been members for a couple of years and their input, insights
and company will be missed.
Now
I would like to solicit your help if possible.
Along with the Ash Fork Food Bank, we are having a big event for the
town on 12 March, a
Douglas Gorniak
Commander
POST NEWS:
Our
post meeting was on 18 January and our next meeting is 14 February at
Post
Social hours for the second and fourth weekends have changed. Instead of starting at
Enclosed
also are five Pancake Breakfast tickets for February 19. The breakfast is from
Look
for more information on the Blood Drive on
Tickets
are on sale for the Fourth of July 50/50 raffle. Winner will be drawn at the BBQ and need not
be present to win. Tickets are on sale
now at $1 each or 6 for $5. They will be
sold any time the Post is open (except during Bingo).
LADIES AUXILIARY:
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT:
Dear
Auxiliary Sisters,
Congrats
to the Raffle Winners: Wes Gorton, $50;
Mary Jane Gorton, Stain Glass Window Hanging; Janet Huckaby,
Indian Oil Painting; and David Eklof, American Flag
Pillow.
If
you missed the New Year’s Eve Party, you missed out on a lot of fun and neat
door prizes and yummy food. I would like
to thank everybody that pitched in and helped with everything. You all helped make it a great evening.
Now
for some changes. Our next meeting will
be on February 14th, which is a Monday. The March meeting will be on March 7th
at
Lucy
has knitted a beautiful lighthouse afghan.
We will be holding a raffle from now until May or June when we pull the
lucky ticket. All monies will be donated
to the Homeless Vets which is our Department President’s project this
year. Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5.
Welcome
to our newest members, Karen Peters and Sherie
Mercier.
We
will be having a Craft Show in May or June so start making those crafts now so
you’ll have lots to sell. We will be
renting tables, we’re not sure how much yet.
More information at a later date.
Peggy
Gasdorf
Auxiliary
President
LETTER
FROM THE EDITOR:
I
received an email from my sister-in-law, which hit on something very
important. What do you do if you think
you are having a heart attack and you are all alone? HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain
in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your
jaw. Since many people are alone when
they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating
improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before
losing conscious. What do you do? ANSWER: Do not panic, but start coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, the
cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the
chest. A breath and a cough must be
repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until
the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep
breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and
keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it
regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a
hospital. Article published in Journal of General
Hospital Rochester.
I want
to thank all of you who braved the weather and came to the Spaghetti Dinner on
7 January--snow and all. We had about
half the folks we normally have so I still consider it a success considering
the weather. I especially want to thank
my kitchen crew: Ed Newcomb, John Sydow
and Will Popp. Thanks guys, you did a
terrific job. I want to thank Barry
Sharp for tending bar and the Commander, can’t seem to remember his name, for
handling ticket sales at the door. I
also want to thank the Girl Scouts who acted as our servers. We have plenty of spaghetti sauce left over
so we will be planning another dinner sometime next quarter.
Have you been
thinking you want to do something for our troops overseas but aren’t exactly
sure what to do? How about sending them
some books? BOOKSAMILLION.com has a
program called Books for Troops. This unique program lets you select and purchase books for members of the U.S.
Armed Forces serving overseas. First go
to their website and then click on the Books for Troops icon. You simply buy the books of your choice from
the list provided. BOOKSAMILLION.COM
will address and send your books to the soldiers - and you pay no shipping
charges on the books you buy for the troops!
At least once each week, BOOKSAMILLION.COM will gather, address and ship
the books purchased for the troops. For
more information, check out their website.
Thanks-a-million for supporting the U.S. troops!
MONTHLY
TRIVIA: January Newsletter: How many steps
does the guard take during his walk across the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier and why? 21 steps. It
alludes to the twenty-one-gun salute, which is the highest honor given any
military or foreign dignitary.
This
month’s question: How often are the guards changed at the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier?
ITEMS
OF INTEREST (if interested in an item listed, contact the Post for further
information)
If
it’s been at least a year since you registered with the VA in Prescott and you
haven’t had appointments, make sure you re-register with them. Even if they turned you down it’s important
you re-register. If they open up to
Group 7 eligible veterans, you want to already be registered.
Are
you an atomic vet? Were you in Hiroshima
or Nagasaki in Japan after WWII or a participant in nuclear-weapon tests
between 1945-1962 in New Mexico, Nevada or the Pacific? Do you have cancer? Twenty-one cancers have been linked to
radiation exposure and the VA offers Health care and compensation. [Source:
VFW Magazine, Nov/Dec 2004)
Retirees
Action Office (RAO) Bulletins, 1 January 2005, contains the following articles:
Concurrent Retirement and Disability Payments (CRDP)
Payment Increases; CRDP Accelerated CR For Individual Unemployability Mulled; Combat Related Special Compensation Backlog Resolution; DFAS
1099-R,
RAO
Bulletin 15 January 2005, contains the following articles: CRDP Update 30 (Decision still pending on IU
Vets); Reservist Disability Pay; VA Home Loan Update 04. (Significant changes
signed into law); National Guard Bonus Increase;
The
new Veterans Identity Card is available.
All the vet has to do to get the new ID card is to go into the
enrollment office at the VA in Prescott.
They will need to see your old card to get certain info from it. Then they will take your picture. It will take approximately 4-6 weeks to
receive the new card and in the meantime, you will continue to use your old
card. Thanks to Carol Miller for the
specifics! NOTE: HOLD OFF GETTING YOUR
FRAUD
WARNING: The
tsunamis that hit South Asia are being hailed as the worst natural disaster in
this century. Fraudulent e-mails seeking
financial support for tsunami victims are surfacing in one of two forms. Individuals
from phony, foreign organizations are sending e-mails seeking money to support
relief efforts, and crooks are posing as victims' bankers seeking to collect
donations for relief efforts. In this form of identity theft, known as "phishing," hackers request victims' credit card
numbers and other personal information.
Over the Internet, fraudulent charities are creating Web sites and
selling items through online auctions, stating that proceeds will aid victims in
Asia.
While it is impossible to tell which of these newly formed charities will use
donations to aid tsunami victims, adhering to the following guidelines will
help ensure that donations go to help relief efforts.
-- Ask for the name of the charity, and
verify that charity officials authorized the solicitation. Find out more by
contacting the Better Business Bureau.
-- Do not give out financial information such as social security, credit card
and bank account numbers.
-- Do not give cash. For security and tax record purposes, it is best to pay by
check made payable to the beneficiary, not the solicitor.
-- Ask for a receipt showing the amount of the contribution and stating that it
is tax-deductible.
-- Find out more about fraudulent charity schemes online at www.ftc.gov.
The
Combat Military Medically Retired Veteran's Fairness Act of 2004 (HR 4637)
authorizes the payment of special compensation to members of the Armed Forces
retired due to disability with less than 20 years of active service who were
awarded the Purple Heart. The act states that such payments shall be made
without regard to special rules applicable to other disability retirees, which
require offsetting reductions. Current
status of this bill:
http://vote.military.com/military/issues/bills/?bill=6778421 Contact your representatives
Thunderbirds
(The US Air Force Demonstration Squadron) Air Show schedule: 12-20 March 2005, Luke AFB; 2-3 April, Davis-Monthan AFB.
UPCOMING
EVENTS TO PUT ON YOUR CALENDAR: (all events
at Post 57 unless otherwise noted.)
6 February 2005,
District Meeting at Golden Valley,
11-12 February,
Post Social,
13 February 2005,
Bingo, doors open
14 February 2005,
Post and Auxiliary Meeting,
19 February 2005,
Pancake Breakfast,
20 February 2005,
District Meeting at Golden Valley,
25-26 February,
Post Social,
27 February 2005,
Bingo, doors open
11-12 March 2005,
Post Social,
12 March 2005,
Easter Feed the Town Meal, 3-6 pm
13 March 2005,
State Commander’s Brunch, 10:30—correction in month
13 March 2005,
Bingo, doors open
19 March 2005, District
Picnic at Bullhead City,
25-26 March 2005,
Post Social,
26 March 2005,
Blood Drive, 12:30-5 pm
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 P.O. Box 45 or calling me 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