Welcome to VFW Post 2680!

 Commander

 Seth Culver  

Greeting Comrades,

Sorry for the late news line but we all know how life goes flying by us. I hope everyone is doing well and getting ready for Christmas, I know Home Depot is already in the Christmas spirit. And speaking of Christmas spirit we are going to have our annual Christmas dinner on December 7th. This year we decided to have it catered by Hangtown Grill and we will be starting at 1600 hours, we are still working out the logistics of everything, but we will need everyone who wants to come to RSVP by December 1st.  

On another note, Veterans Day is just around the corner, and we will be up at the monument for the ceremony. After the ceremony there will be a BBQ at the Veterans Memorial Building for everyone, so plan on coming out for this event. The event is sponsored by the El Dorado County Veterans Resources Center, and all the veteran groups are helping. If you would like to help for an hour or so, please contact me to let me know. We are going to have a recruitment table set up during the event so if you want to just come and hang out please do. If you would like to be part of the honor guard, let me know. We normally need rifleman and people to help fold flags.

We were invited to the Provident Christian school in Shingle Springs for a veteran’s event, and we did a flag folding ceremony at the close of the event. I would like to thank Primo, Peter Bell and Doug Shelstad for their help in making it a success. Mike Berkery represented us at Pinewood Elementary school in Pollock Pines; they even served him an awesome breakfast!!!

The Christmas parade is coming up, and we are going to be involved again, this year we are going to have a veteran’s float with all the branches there. Last year the USMC had the Toys for Tots float, and the various posts had floats, but this year we are going to combine things. Again, if want to come out and wave to the crowd and ride around please let us know.

Another event we are helping with is the Military Family Support Group (MFSG) Turkey giveaway. They will be giving out turkeys on 11/21/25 at 1030 at the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office parking lot. This is an easy event, and you get a lot of smiles and thank yous!!!

If you have any questions or want to get involved things please email me at vfw2680cc@gmail.com.

All my best,

Seth Culver

Commander.

Chaplain's Report 

Doug Shelstad

  Greetings friends, in the name of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!  At the beginning of the School year at Providence Christian School Pete, Mike, Primo and I taught the incoming fifth grade class how to fold the American flag. We also gave each student American flag lapel pins and they promptly put them on. They put the American flag and the Christian flag up and take it down each day. We really enjoy the kids and it’s one of our favorite things to do. At the end of the school year, we show the incoming class the proper way to raise and lower the flags. We demonstrate folding the flag, so the kids could see it. We also have one of the students play taps with our bugle. They really like it and so do we! Friday, November 7th we participated in the veterans program at Providence Christian School. We have been participating in this program for many years now. Primo,Pete and Seth opened the flag held it towards the audience and Max played taps. As the guys folded the flag I read what each of the 13th folds mean. Special recognition was given to us and we received a thank you card with a check of $100 for our post! It was an honor to represent all veterans and members of post 2680! By the way Mike, they had delicious cookies this year. It’s too bad the marine that complained about it wasn’t there! Thank you to everyone who prayed for healing for Liz. She had a successful Robotic surgery after six hours for bowel obstruction. She spent nine days in the hospital at home now healing and happy to be home. Thank you again for all your prayers and well wishes!  Please inform me if someone has a need or a prayer request. Let me know so I can respond appropriately. Until next time with Jesus, love and ours for you, Doug and Liz.