Welcome to VFW Post 2680!

Greetings Comrades,

I wanted to start off this news letter with some exciting news. As many of you know the VFW, Elks, Rotary, Moose, Shriners and other benevolent organizations are struggling to stay afloat with the current generation of people, sadly they just do not volunteer like they once did and everyone is working to find an answer. Well luckily for us we have something that will benefit all of us in the VFW world. Our other Placerville post, Camradeo 10165 has asked to join us and create one large post. This makes a great deal of sense because we are both working to help worthy veterans, create a sense of comradeship among fellow veterans and make fun of the Marines. I attended 10165’s meeting and they were very enthusiastic about merging our post, they are willing to become Sierra Nevada 2680 and most importantly they are welcoming of our Auxiliary. The voted unanimously to merge with us and now we get to vote on the issue at our next meeting on March 13th at 1730 hours. I strongly encourage everyone to attend so we can vote on this. There are other details that will need to be worked out between the posts; election of officers, moving of funds, property and other such administrative items. We are hoping to get this done by the end of May.

On other news, the Bingo games are getting bigger and bigger each month as more people come out and play, we get a lot of complements on our games and the way we run things. So tell your friends, doors open at 1700 and games began at 1800. $10.00 for a full pack, $5.00 for a half pack and special pack. You can come out and help or just play we are just trying to make things social. And on the subject of social things we now have a pool table and fusball table back in the lounge area, nobody seems to know what happened to the other table. We are hoping to get some card games going as well.

The state convention is going to be help in Sacramento for the first time in 9 years, the dates are June 17 to the 21st, I will post more information as it gets closer, there is a process if you would like to attend as a delegate, please let me know and I will ensure you are there.

I am sure there was something else I wanted to add but seem to forget until after it is posted. It is tough getting old.

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.