April 2006 Newsletter

Commander's Corner
Greetings to you all, the month of March was unpredictable in both the weather and Post activities. I am Proud to Announce that our Post Sgt at Arms Megann Marten and myself were presented with our Certificates for the District 13 Honor Guard. We along with members from a few of the other posts have been honoring our fallen comrades. We are the first Group in California to have been certified and presented with certificates and D.O. D. pins which we wear proudly. For those of you who did attend the St. Patrick's Day Dinner Dance I do hope that you enjoyed the meal as well as the entertainment.

Please take note that April 7th there will be No Friday night Dinner Dance, at present the numbers of patrons has been declining, so the option of shutting down to save expenses was done. On a good note on that date we will be having the Tap Industries Tool Show again, it came as a surprise and we took advantage of it. There will be many tools on sale, as well as other items of interest.

April 14th there will be No Friday Night Dinner as well, Since this is Good Friday. On April 28th we will again be having the "Attack Band" playing, and as last time from 7:00pm to 9:00pm it will be Country and Rockabilly, and then from about 9:30pm to 11:00 pm it will be Rock and Roll and some Blues music.

Dinner Tickets will be $15.00, dance tickets will be $8.00 so come out and check out something new.

If anyone is interested in Homeland Security the District does have a committee from a few of the other posts. I have the name and number of the District individual who is in charge of this committee, so if anyone is interested please call the back bar or call me and I will give the information.

A Car Show is scheduled for May 27th, Memorial Week End and we do have flyers now so, plan on coming down and enjoying the cars and our Bar-B-Q and Music, featuring ah you should have guessed the Attack Band
Fly your Flags Proudly and Remember our younger Comrades still on Active Duty.

Commander
Steve
Email = StephenV@Bridgewave.com

1st Vice Commander
Membership for 2006 edged up by one percentile to 90% of objective since the last report. Hopefully, with spring just breaking out, you holdouts will discover treasures socked away for the winter, which can now be used to restore your active membership (and get #X&/% me off your backs).

GOT A CAR IN THE DRIVEWAY THAT ISN'T BEING USED? CONSIDER DONATING IT TO THE BENEFIT OF YOURSELF AND THE POST. YOU GET A TAX WRITE OFF AND THE POST GETS A PORTION OF THE VALUE OF THE EVENTUAL SALVAGE OR SALE OF THE VEHICLE. CALL 1 800 916 7788 TO EXPEDITE THE DONATION. AND TELL A FRIEND…TELL A BUNCH OF FRIENDS.

I had a Saint Patrick's Day lunch at the post of the traditional corned beef and cabbage. Linda and Earl did a great job; the meal was plate licking good as usual and scarfed up by our Irish members (especially those whose names ended with a vowel). Lunch is an every Friday event and costs only $5 per person. You can earn some brownie points with your "Honey" by bringing (him/her) out over to the Post and having lunch with us.

We our still expanding our membership roster to include Email addresses. As soon as Ralph debugs the system we will start E-mailing The "Howdy" to your homes. In the mean time, members who have computers are encouraged to provide their email addresses to the Post if you have not done so. Please email you screen name, telephone number and address (as it appears on the address label of the "Howdy") to me at VICECOMDR@YAHOO.COM.

See you at the membership, first Wednesday in April.

1st Vice
Jim Smith, VICECOMDR@AOL.COM