Dear Fellow Comrades,
If you didn’t attend our Christmas Party, you missed out on a good time. We had 27 people attend this year and we had lots of great food. Thanks goes out to all the members who brought all the goodies. We held a very short side meeting to discuss upcoming events but no business meeting was held.
We are once again providing our local National Guard Troop Families with some Christmas cheer. We have been waiting to get information regarding a list of families in the Rice Lake area. With all the new security proto calls in place, we have been unable to get any kind of list. We talked to Sgt Odenbreit and he will get the gift cards to all the members. This should help brighten up their Christmas Spirit.
The entries for Patriots Pen and Teacher of the Year Awards have been judged at district. Our Teacher of the Year entry (Mr. Chuck Stene) has been forwarded to Department level judging. The Patriots Pen Entries (Grace Schock, Jordan Lundberg and Madison Glaze) did not score that high this year and none of them were forwarded to department. We should have all the official rankings at our upcoming 9th District Meeting.
As was mentioned before the Scuttlebutt will no longer be mailed out monthly to all members. We are still discussing it and we might be mailing a bi-monthly or quarterly letter but not yet sure. We are continuing to update the web site for the Veterans Center. If you see any information in error, please let us know. We have posted all the monthly VFW & DAV articles from the past two years. We will hopefully be adding all the past Scuttlebutt articles as well. A calendar is also being worked on and hopefully that will be completed in the next couple of weeks. The web site is www.rlvets.org and has links to many other sites. If anyone has any questions, please contact me.
The VFW 9th District Mid-Winter Conference will be held on 16 January at Altoona Wisconsin. Currently, Commander Ben Anderson, Herb Zimmer and I will be attending. If any other member would like to attend and needs a ride, please give me a call and we can make arrangement for you.
I continue to work on a list of members who have special skills and would like to be available to help Deployed NGU families if the need would arise. (Plumbing, electrical, auto repairs, etc) Please let me know if you are willing to assist. I now have three people who have volunteered. We sure could use some other help.
**** If you know of any member who is sick or could use some sunshine, please contact Steve Clark at 715-719-0218.
Upcoming Event:
- 16 Jan 10 - 9th District Meeting (Altoona)
- 19 Jan 10 - Monthly Meeting
- 05-06 Feb 10 - VFW Mid-Winter Meeting (Appleton)
- 16 Feb 10 - Monthly Meeting
John L. Fredrickson
Jr. Vice Commander