PALMER LAKE VFW POST #3915 | Issue 2020-04 1 PALMER LAKE VFW POST #3915 Congrat ulat ions t o: Scot t Hanson 7t h Dist rict Com m ander and Francesca "Frankie" Bill Depart m ent w w w.palm erlakevfw.org Auxiliary President NO ONE DOES MORE FOR VETERANS IN THIS ISSUE Auxiliary News St aying Safe The latest from our Auxiliary President Page 2 By Commander Jarrod McReynolds Prayer Corner Page 3 Comrades is your membership number and your last name. Community Service Page 3 Membership Page 4 I hope that this I encourage you all to test out Zoom and install the Newsletter is finding software on your computer, phone or tablet prior Youth Activities Page 4 you all Safe and doing to the members meeting to ensure you are able to Honor Guard Page 4 well. If you are get connected. Please also keep in mind that this Safety Page 5 experiencing any will be something new for all of us involved so issues during this period I urge you to reach out so have patience as we work through this as a team. Other Stuff Page 5 that we can assist, the VFW is a family and family The Cootie Corner Page 5 As some of you may have noticed our website has takes care of each other. Veterans Issues Page 6 taken on a significant change. This new site is tied While the Club is closed due to COVID-19 the VFW into District, Department and Nationals sites, and Legislation Page 8 is still open and operating. If that does not make receives news and calendar feeds from them. This Buddy Page 8 sense, then I ask you to take some time to review will allow our members stay more informed, and Veterans and Post Activities Page 9 our m ission. Planning for Memorial Day, and for current on what is going on in our great Poppy distribution continues, and if there are any organization. Americanism and Citizenship Page 11 Veterans or their families that are in need we Up-coming Holidays I close this months message with a plea for stand ready to assist in any way that we can. everyone to stay safe, ad remain patient during Dates to Note Our wonderful management team is taking the this time. We continue our missions, and we can Help Wanted & Contact Us time to complete many Club improvement projects only do that with all of our members, if anyone A new take on volunteering Page 12 during this outage so make sure to thank them knows of any member, Veteran or family member when the club is back open. that is need make sure they get in touch. They can The Canteen email, call, or use social media to connect with the COVID-19 is causing world wide changes, and we Calendar Page 13 Post. are going to change with the times. Our April 8th Members meeting will be held via Zoom. in order Commander to get the access information you will need to go Jarrod McReynolds to our w ebsit e and log in. Your login information Palmer Lake VFW 2817 Brookdale Drive, Brooklyn Park M N 55444 Phone: 763.560.3720 Cell: 651.307.6133 Fax: 763.560.0408 Email: [email protected] Website: www.palmerlakevfw.org PALMER LAKE VFW POST #3915 | Issue 2020-04 2 Auxiliary New s By President Tracy McReynolds Greetings Auxiliary members, I hope you are all well and staying healthy.These are some very unusual times that we have entered into. If for whatever reason you find yourself needing groceries or anything do not hesitate to reach out to any of us for help. I am sure by now you have realized we will not be having an April meeting due the Post being closed until 5/1 and the Governor's request for no gatherings of people over 10. We are hoping by May 12th our Post home will be open for elections and installation. If for whatever reason the Post is not open by that time we will have to do elections, installation and a meeting via Zoom.More info to follow around the 1st of May if that does happen. Please again let us know if you need any help with anything Thank you for your support, Tracy McReynolds Auxiliary Email: [email protected] Regardless of how you choose to volunteer your time, always remember to log your community services hours in our community service log on our website. Click Here Palmer Lake VFW 2817 Brookdale Drive, Brooklyn Park M N 55444 Phone: 763.560.3720 Cell: 651.307.6133 Fax: 763.560.0408 Email: [email protected] Website: www.palmerlakevfw.org PALMER LAKE VFW POST #3915 | Issue 2020-04 3 Prayer Corner By Chaplin Nate Gehl Bob Whitcraft, continues his fight with cancer, please continue to send prayers and well wishes to him and his family. It is with sad news that I inform everyone that Comrade Lynn Olkives has been moved to hospice care. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers. Lord, Please watch over all of our families during this time of stress and COVID-19 virus pandemic Help us to deal with the illness if it strikes one of our family or Palm er Lake VFW is not only a Vet eran?s friends and to help us all watch over the vulnerable organizat ion, but also a fam ily. We grow , people in our neighborhoods. w ork, laugh and m orn t oget her. Amen Com m unit y Service Senior Vice Jonell Wilson Greetings from your Community COVID-19 Service Chair. NOW IS THE TIME TO VOLUNTEER TO HELP DELIVER MEALS Palmer Lake Supports the ?Blue Star TO THOSE SHUT IN AT HOME, TO SHOP FOR ESSENTIALS FOR Mothers ? Chapter 7 ? North Metro? THOSE UNABLE TO SHOP FOR THEMSELVES, TO BABYSIT FOR THOSE WORKING FROM HOME AND DEALING WITH CHILDREN HOME FROM SCHOOL, TO HELP IN FOOD KITCHENS TO HELP FEED THE HOMELESS. I AM SURE YOU CAN HOW CAN I HELP? THINK OF MORE THINGS WHERE HELP IS NEEDED. ABLE There are many different way to help make a difference. BODIED PEOPLE WILLING TO CLEAN AT MEDICAL FACILITIES Regardless of how you choose to volunteer your time, always ARE SORELY NEED (AND THESE JOBS ARE PAID). EVERY DAY I remember to log your community services hours in our READ ABOUT BUSINESS THAT ARE LOOKING TO HIRE AS WELL. community service log on our website. Click Here Share t he Vet erans Crisis Line Num ber t o Save a Life If you have questions or have an idea on a Community Service Crisis Line. This confidential, toll-free, 24-hour-a-day hot line serves Veterans activity, feel free to send an email to the Commander (see link and their loved ones year-round. Reach qualified, caring responders: on the contact page). by phone at 800-273-8255, via on-line chat on their website, or Thank you everyone for your continued community service by text message at 838255. contributions. Palmer Lake VFW 2817 Brookdale Drive, Brooklyn Park M N 55444 Phone: 763.560.3720 Cell: 651.307.6133 Fax: 763.560.0408 Email: [email protected] Website: www.palmerlakevfw.org PALMER LAKE VFW POST #3915 | Issue 2020-04 4 Mem bership Yout h Act ivit ies Junior Vice Janet Schaak Program Chair Janet Schaak The 2019-20 theme is: What Makes America Great . Each year more than 132,000 students in grades 6-8 enter the VFW?s Patriot?s Pen youth essay contest. The national first-place winner wins $5,000 and an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. If you bring in a lead The first-place winner from each state t hat t urns int o a new m em ber, you w ill get competes for national awards totaling $55,000, with each your nam e in t he draw ing for a $100 Post Gift first-place state winner receiving a minimum of $500 at the card. We current ly need 3 New m em bers or national level. reinst at es t o reach 100%. We also sit in 8t h Established in 1947, our Voice of place for m em bership in our division. Dem ocracy audio-essay program provides Rem em ber w e need t o be in t he t op 50 t o high school students with the unique qualify for All-Am erican Post honors. Let 's do it opportunity to express themselves in t his year!!! regards to a democratic and patriotic-themed recorded essay. Each year, nearly 40,000 9-12 grade students from across the country enter to win their share of $2.1 million in educational scholarships and incentives awarded through the program. Honor Guard In Flanders fields the poppies blow Honor Guard Commander Robert Hystad Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields Palmer Lake VFW 2817 Brookdale Drive, Brooklyn Park M N 55444 Phone: 763.560.3720 Cell: 651.307.6133 Fax: 763.560.0408 Email: [email protected] Website: www.palmerlakevfw.org PALMER LAKE VFW POST #3915 | Issue 2020-04 5 Ot her st uff The Coot ies Corner By CCDB Terry Wagner Greetings All, Some Marches have been known to be snowy months but it looks like the big storm of this March was not weather related.