from the Auxiliary President, Gorda Olsen

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1 President Gorda Olsen st Vice President Sheri Hornnes nd Vice President Maryalyce McCabe Treasurer Joan Guse Secretary Elaine Dresen Executive Committee Mary Lyman Carol Campanelli Membership Jan Lauby Chaplain Janet Thompson Veteran Affairs Gorda Olsen Community Service Shirley See Sergeant at Arms Dennise Herskind American Legion Auxiliary Apple Valley Unit 1776 December/January Newsletter Granada Drive Apple Valley, MN from the Auxiliary President, Gorda Olsen Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We will not have an Executive Committee or General Meeting in December. So hope to see everyone in 2017 on Tuesday, January 17 th. Janet Thompson and I attended Fall Conference in Marshall in October, this is a learning conference and was very informative. On Saturday we had a joint meeting with the American Legion Family; the newly elected Department Commander Denise Milton opened the meeting and the guest speaker was Denise Rohan, the American Legion Candidate for National Commander; her message was awesome. There are a lot of talented women in the American Legion and Auxiliary. We had 18 members donate desserts for Veterans Day, plus many more who did not sign-in. What a great response and everything was so good. Thank you all! Thanks also to our members who were there all day to serve the desserts.we had a good time. In October we made a donation of $1100 for the $5.00 Dollar Bill Shower and Gift Shop --- these are programs the Auxiliary sponsors in December at the Hastings Veterans Homes where the Veterans receive Christmas gifts and also shop for their family members. In recognition of American Education Week, a few of our Auxiliary members helped the Post deliver 4,300 apples to District 196 teachers, staff, bus drivers and custodial employees. Everyone was very appreciative.we were treated to a nice lunch at the Post. In the Spirit of God and Country WE SERVE Veterans, Military and their families. Gorda Past President Janet Thompson jthom55542@aol.com Newsletter Torrey Lenertz tlenertz@comcast.net

2 Chaplain Janet Thompson Remember to or call me about any member that has surgery, becomes ill or a death in the family. I will send a card from the Auxiliary. This past month I sent out one sympathy card. It was sent to our President Gorda for the loss of her sister. 1 st Vice President Sheri Hornnes The Legion Family Christmas Get-Together is scheduled for Thursday, December 8, at Post We ve had this for several years and every year we have more in attendance, it s a fun night with Legion, Auxiliary & SAL members (spouses & significant others are included) ---- reservation forms are attached with this newsletter and also available at the Club. To attend you must RSVP by December 1 by filling out the attached form and drop it off at the Pull Tab Booth along with your payment. 2 nd Vice President Maryalyce McCabe No report for now..thinking about Valentine s Day and Omelets! Membership Jan Lauby Don t Wait Renew Your Membership Soon Here is 1 Reason Why We have 4 $25.00 Gift Certificates to be given away and all you need to do to enter is to pay your 2017 dues by the end of the year (December 31, 2016). Pay by Thanksgiving (November 24, 2016), and you will double your chances your name will go into the drawing twice! Yep that means you could win 2 if you pay dues by Thanksgiving. Not a Member? If you are eligible to become a member, all you need to do is fill out an application and turn it in to the Pull Tab Booth, include your dues of $25.00, and you too will be entered into the drawing. More Important Reasons to Renew or Join Supporting Our Veterans! We rely on dues from our members to support the programs the Auxiliary is involved in with helping Our Veterans. One person can do amazing things but together, we can do more. Past President Janet Thompson Can you believe it is December and Christmas and the New Year will be upon us soon? The year of 2016 is almost over. We have accomplished many things during the year. Our Auxiliary held several meat raffles, horse races, a Kentucky Derby Day with horse racing and a hat contest, held a craft show, a Trash to Treasure show, had a profitable 4 th of July booth, sent six girls to Girl s State and awarded two scholarships to two high school juniors. Girls State and Scholarships: In January I will be sending out information for Girl s State and scholarships to all the high schools in our area. If you have family members that are female juniors tell them to ask their counselor about Girl s State information. Also all of you that have children or grandchildren graduating this spring from high school to contact the counselors or me about scholarship applications.

3 Fundraisers Marlene Heinzen & Mary Lyman The Craft & Bake Sale was on Saturday, October 29 from 9:00 4:00 pm. Well, we did it again..another big successful Craft & Bake sale! It took two days of long hours to set up for the event. We had 30 vendors in the back room so it was a full house but it all went great. We received lots of compliments on the variety of vendors hope some of them come back next year. Thank you to all of you that donated baked goods for the sale. We have such good bakers in our Auxiliary! Thank you also to Linda for making her delicious sloppy joes..the aroma filled the air. We appreciate all that our Auxiliary Ladies do to make these events a success. Have a Healthy Holiday Season. God Bless you all and I ll see you next spring. Marlene Heinzen, Meat Raffles and Horse Racing: The next one is January 14, 2017 starting at noon. Hope to see you there! Auxiliary Cookbooks: We still need your favorite recipes for our new cookbook! Please them to mcelyman@comcast.net or drop them off at the pull tab booth to my attention. We are very excited about this and are looking forward to sharing all of your recipes. Thank you, Mary Lyman, Veteran Affairs & Rehabilitation Gorda Olsen We had 12 members go to the Hastings Veterans Home for Bingo in October..Linda Kuntz made her famous sloppy joes, and we had treats & desserts that many of you donated, we gave out $200 for bingo prizes. Dennise Herskind did the bingo calling --- and the Vets really liked that, in fact they wanted to make sure we would always bring her with us! It was a fun time, they are always so appreciative. I m including a list of personal items that can be donated to the Veterans there is a store at Hastings Home where they can shop (at no charge to them); so if you would like to donate any of these items you can bring them to the Legion and we will make sure they get to Hastings. o Deodorant o Room air freshener o Irons with auto shut off o Body Wash/soaps o Flip flops (shower shoes o Alarm clocks o Efferdent o New Briefs (all sizes) o Electric Razors o Tooth paste o New T-Shirts (all sizes) o Surge protectors o Polygrip-red box o Bath robes o Stamps

4 From the Legion Commander Carla Tappainer The Children s Christmas party is on December 11 th from Santa will be at there from 12-2 and Mrs. Claus will have story time with the kids sometime during that time. We will be having lots of activities, cookie decorating and games. Please consider coming to help with the party! If you would like to volunteer, call or me. My cell phone is and my is ctappainer@charter.net. If you would like to bring your child or grandchild, age 0-10 years, I need their name, age and contact information so we can contact you to confirm. You must RSVP in order to bring anyone to the party so we know what kind of age appropriate gift to get for the child. You can t just walk in because we will not have a gift for the child. Also need people to volunteer to wrap and label gifts on December 10 th for the party. Don t forget about the Tom and Jerry Party on January 8 th from 12-3! Hope to see all of our members there!! Auxiliary General Membership Meeting 3rd Tuesday of each month 7pm (no meeting in July or Dec) At the Post in the backroom All members are welcome to attend Highlighted Events for December & January Go to the Post web site for the full schedule of Legion events December 8 th: Legion Family Christmas Get Together at the Post Social hour at 6 pm. Dinner at 7 pm. RSVP required. January 8 th : Post Tom and Jerry Party th : Post Children s Christmas Party RSVP required. 14 th : Auxiliary Meat Raffles & Horse Racing starting at noon

5 Apple Valley American Legion Auxiliary Unit Granada Drive Apple Valley, MN Newsletter Newsletters are sent out every other month and are also available online at The 2016 newsletters will be mailed or ed for Feb/Mar, April/May, June/July, Aug/Sept, Oct/Nov, and Dec/Jan. Articles are due the 20th of the month prior to the month of distribution. Please send inputs via to or by mailing them to Torrey Lenertz, 601 Todd Avenue, Eagan, MN