February 2,2008 Mtn Grove VFW Post 3770 Meeting
Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 02:16 PM
by IJK
Seventeen members gathered for the monthly meeting held today, Feb 2. Sr. Vice Commander Pete Proctor conducted the meeting as Commander Allen Dodds Jr was attending the Dept of Mo Council of Administration meeting being held this weekend in Jefferson City, MO. The meeting started promptly at 10:00 and was closed at 10:54. Although the meeting was short , it was constructive.
The cooks prepared a fine breakfast of sausage and French toast. The cooks are shown above Jr Vice Commander Jim Sweet (L) and Sr Vice Commander Pete Proctor (R).
Lined up filling their plates are Trustee John Dodds (L) and Adjutant Darrell Kochis (R) while Jr Vice Sweet (kitchen) checks on the French toast on the griddle.
During the meeting the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved with noted changes, the Quartermasters financial and bingo reports were given, the Service Officers report was given, reports pertaining to 'old business' were given, Comrade Overholser reported on the ambitious aims of the Mtn Grove YMCA to build an indoor swimming pool and the YMCA's need to update their bus-Comrade Overholser will find out more by next meeting, Comrade Kelley started a discussion about Post 3770 possibly joining the Mtn Grove Chamber of Commerce and since some questions were raised it was tabled until Comrades Kelley and Hawley obtain the answers to those questions by the next meeting. Under "Good of the Order" Sr Vice Proctor read "Thank You"s from the St James Veterans Home and the Mtn Grove JROTC for our recent donations to those organizations, read the Dept of Mo February General Orders to the members, reminded the membership of the upcoming District 18 meeting to be held at West Plains VFW Post 1828 next Saturday, February 9th, the upcoming "Pot Luck" Dinner to be held at the Post Home on February 16 at 12 NOON, informed the members of the "Color Ceremony" to be held on the Mtn Grove Public Square on February 15th at 9:00 a. m. in commemoration of the "Sinking of the USS Maine in 1898" in Havana Harbor, Cuba which got the United Sates embroiled in its first global war, the Spanish-American War. It was the veterans of that conflict that got the VFW started.
The next meeting of Post 3770 will be held at the Post Home at 10:00 a. m. on March 8, 2008. Breakfast will be ready around 9:00 a.m.
It was voted on and passed at the January meeting to make a donation to the newly formed "Mtn Grove Model Railroading Association". They were not ready for the donation then but Comrade Scott Overholser is shown accepting the donation from Sr-Vice Commander Proctor, on the MGMR Association's behalf today.
Post 3770 has a "Life Membership" drawing at the conclusion of each meeting. A name is drawn from a can which has all members names inside. The member must be present to win. If the first name drawn is not present then a second is drawn. If a winner is declared and the member is an annual member then the Post will pay the appropriate Life Membership fee but if the member is already a Life Member then a small cash award is given. Today the first name drawn was Comrade Kenneth Flinchum who is already a Life Member. Shown above is Trustee Kenneth Flinchum (L) receiving congratulations and a check from Quartermaster Kelley (R).
Cheerily
IJK
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