Newsletter

Yes, we are hiring bartenders! Come in and ask our bartenders for an application. Any

questions, please contact Lacee W.

Please check the Volunteer board on our east wall for volunteering opportunities.

Thank you for all that you do for the post! It takes a village!

March has arrived and Spring is quickly approaching. It is time to thaw out and to get

out and enjoy the beautiful weather Colorado has to offer.

Tuesday March 25th is “NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR DAY”. Only 3,468 Medals of

Honor have been awarded to the country’s soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and

coastguardsmen. The Medal of Honor is the highest military award for valor in the

United States and was created in 1861. There are three versions of the Medal of Honor;

one for the Army, one for the Navy, and one for the Air Force; Personnel of the

Marine Corps and the Coast Guard receive the Navy version.

Saturday March 29th is “NATIONAL VIETNAM WAR VETERANS DAY” this date honors

the men and women who served and sacrificed during the longest conflict in United

States history. On March 29,1973, combat and combat support units withdrew from

South Vietnam. Generations later, Veterans of this period are gaining the respect that

was not so freely given upon their return. Involving five U.S. presidents, crossing

nearly two decades and 500,000 U.S. Military personnel, it left an indelible mark on

the American psyche. Let us all continue to work together in 2024 to make our post a

success. Let us continue committing ourselves to supporting,

Also, let us continue to commit ourselves to supporting each other.

THE BACKBONE OF THE AMERICAN LEGION ARE THE POST VOLUNTEERS.

Our post needs volunteers for many upcoming events in 2025. Be sure to volunteer as

often as possible. We need YOU to promote your post! Bring in your family and

friends. We have lots going on that you can participate in. Be sure to sign up to

volunteer on our east bulletin board.

April is election month. If you are interested in running for a position on

the executive committee, please contact the nominations coordinator

George McCambridge before March 31st, 2025.

NEVER FORGET THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION.

VETERANS, CHILDREN AMERICANISM, NATIONAL DEFENSE.

Manny Madrid – Post Commander

Our upcoming events will be the Soup Supper and Bake Sale to be held on March 15th,

the Tamales sale to be held on March 29th, and our Cooking for a Cause dinner in

support of our Sponsor A Puppy Event. This dinner is being prepared by Amie and

Chris Mann and will be held on April 29th. There will be more to come regarding the

dinner event. Please refer to the Post Facebook page as the flyers for these events are

posted with the information you need to know. There are also sign-up sheets posted

on the bulletin board for volunteers and soup and baked good items.

It is crucial that we have volunteers step up for each of these events as we cannot

continue to have the same volunteers supporting every event. We will need baked

good items, soups, and of course people to come forth and help at these events. This

is your Auxiliary, and every member should be doing something to make us

successful and support each other.

The Post has requested that each group also consider helping to improve the financial

position of the Post as well as improve our membership across all groups. Their plan

is to have the membership bring in a dish that can be reheated and used to bring back

our luncheons.

As we all know, Veterans in the past had made it their mission to come to the legion to

enjoy a home cooked meal for lunch. We can no longer offer this option to our

Veterans. Our goal and ongoing support are to our Veterans. If the membership

across all groups could commit to bringing in a dish periodically and used for lunch it

would show our Veterans, we do care about them and want to see them back at the

Post. Consider whatever it is you can do to make this happen in support of our

Veterans.

On March 19th, the Auxiliary will be purchasing a cake to celebrate the American

Legon’s Birthday. Come in and enjoy a piece of cake to celebrate this momentous

event.

February was a slow month for events. We are starting to create gift baskets to raffle

off and are based on the standard Holidays. Valentines was the first of these raffles.

On behalf of Shannon, our basket queen, I thank those volunteers who brought in

items for the basket. She reported we made over $200.00 on the basket.

February Volunteers

Amie Mann Kathy Flaherty Kathy Macke Patty

Bishop

Audrey Hamby Shannon Speer Deb Stewart

Trina Craddock Marlene Stafford

God Bless You All!

Kathy Macke - Auxiliary President

608-214-0000

ksmacke@gmail.com

An Irish Prayer

May God give you....

For every storm, a rainbow

For every tear, a smile

For every case, a promise

For each trial, a blessing

For every problem life sends, a faithful friend

For every sigh, a sweet song

For each prayer, an answer

Have a wonderful St. Patrick's Day everyone!

May the luck of the Irish be with you!

Lori Mudry

Auxiliary Chaplain

Hello Sons,

A thank you goes out to the volunteers that made our chili cook-off a success. Thanks

to all who supported our event.

We will quiet down for a couple of months now until our April meeting, which will be

on the third Monday, the 21st at 6 pm. In the meantime, there are plenty of activities,

events, food, and libation. Come on out to volunteer when you can and help keep us a

vibrant organization in the community.

We have lots of shirts in all sizes. If you'd like to show your pride in your SAL

membership, please consider buying a shirt and wearing it to events at our post.

Have a great month guys!

Tony Souders - SAL 4 Commander

 March 1st - Poker Night - 6pm

March 11th - Meeting - 6:30pm

March 16th - Breakfast - 8am to noon

March 22nd Support our post: the riders will be grilling burgers, brats & hot dogs with

beans and potato salad. Silent auction & live auction. This is to help our post. Please

bring silent & live auction items for us to sell. 1-3 band starts at 3:00pm until 6:00pm.

We all need to work together to keep our post going. If we need something pricey, we

don’t have the money. We need a cushion. Let’s do this.

Mick Dillan – Rider’s Director

Things have been pretty slow in the last month as we only did one funeral, travelled

approximately fifty total aggregate miles with eleven man-hours involved.

Fortunately, we missed all the bad weather.

Anybody interested in joining our vital and fun organization can call me at (970)219-

4546 or George McCambridge at (970)493-6412.

Terry E. Hartfield

2025 is upon us! Get your cards renewed before the first of the year or you shant be allowed to belly up at the bar!

instant credit with National Headquarters is to go to legion.org and click the RENEW button.

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