Today we honor the Fallen!

They fought for our Freedoms and we owe them everything.  

I hope you all enjoy your holiday and remember to support your local Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) members who are out distributing poppies and collecting donations for our relief funds to help our fellow veterans in need.

If you are local and have the time, Please join us at Oregon City Mountain View Cemetery 500 Hilda St. Oregon City. 10am – Noon. Veteran Honoring and wreath placement Ceremony. Our Post Chaplain JJ Morrell will be the Key Note Speaker and will help with the laying of the wreaths, our Post 1324 Honor Guard will be participating as well.  Afterwards join us at the VFW Post 1324  OPEN HOUSE  noon -5 pm. We will have memorabilia tables from WWII to present. This is a great opportunity to visit with our Veterans and take a tour of our post. Hamburgers, Hot dogs and refreshments will be served as well.

Thank you for your support!

Janice

Don't forget to get your Buddy Poppy.....................

It's that time of year again and our VFW Post 1324 and Auxiliary members are out at several of the Fred Meyer and Safeway stores in Clackamas, Damascus, Gladstone, Happy Valley, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Oregon City, West Linn and Wilsonville. Plus Bi-Mart, Coastal Farm and Home Supply, Pete's Coffee and Tea, Shari's and Wall-Mart.  If you see them please donate.  We put that money to good use. If you want to know what we do with all the donations, please ask for a flyer while you are there.  If you aren't in my local area, please donate to your local VFW Post and Auxiliary.

Here's a pic of DJ our commander in Wilsonville today.

 Bob was in Happy Valley today.  

Steve will be at Safeway in OC starting Wednesday.  

I am so very proud to be part of this group. 

I am also very proud to be part of this community.  

Thank you all for your support and donations with out you we couldn't do what we do best, and no one does more for our Veterans.

Mark your calendars for Monday, May 29th, Memorial Day.  

The Three Rivers VFW Post 1324 will be hosting our annual Memorial Day Open House  

From 12:00 pm (noon) to 5 pm. 

104 S Tumwater Dr. 

Oregon City, OR 

We will be providing hamburgers, hot dogs and other goodies for those who stop by.

There will be several Memorabilia displays too.

If you see one of our members out distributing poppies, please take a pic and share them on our Facebook page.  Here's the link https://www.facebook.com/VFWPost1324/

Thanks again and I hope to see you all on Monday May 29th.

Happy Scrappin',

Janice

Happy Birthday!!!

The VFW Post 1324 turned 92 on Friday.  We celebrated with food, cake and beverages.

Mother Nature must have been celebrating with us, just look at the gift she gave us.  So beautiful.

  

A visit from the Ladies Auxiliary National President.

It was such an honor to welcome the Ladies Auxiliary National President Ann Panteleakos to Oregon City and our Post 1324.   Below is a picture (L-R) of our President Tracy Bogart, our District President Patricia Carroll, our State President Linda Rose, and the Ladies Auxiliary National President Ann Panteleakos. 

Here is our President Tracy Bogart, Ladies Auxiliary National President Ann Panteleakos and our Post Commander DJ Ruger.  

This is how we set up the post for the wonderful spaghetti dinner that we served. 

This is only half of our post. 

 everyone loved the decorations and the food.

 The lady standing in this picture is Jan Halverson, our Ladies Auxiliary State Secretary. 
We had Ladies Auxiliary members from Canby, Molalla, Salem, Sandy and Redmond OR. We also had a few Post members, Jim McDonald, Tracy Bogart, Ann Panteleakos, DJ Ruger, Maurie and in the back is Tom. I have to apologize because I don't know Maurie's or Tom's Last names or Post positions.  They are all great guys and fun to work with.  So glad they came today.

Ann Spoke today about recruiting new members and how important that we rebuild our membership.  We lost 40,000 members nation wide this last year.  If you or a member of your Family are Veterans of Foreign Wars, meaning you/they went over seas, you could be eligible to join the Ladies Auxiliary and help our Veterans even more.  With so many of our family members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan we have big shoes to fill.  We need all the help we can get.  

We just learned of some local families who's spouse's have been deployed recently are in need of help any one can help and if you can spare a few cans of food or really just about anything that would help a lot.  You can contact me 503-708-6889 or you can stop by the post on Thursday evenings from 6-8 pm or you can call the VFW Post 1324 503-655-6969 and arrange a time to drop items off.

VFW Post 1324

104 Tumwater Dr, Oregon City, OR 97045 (503) 655-6969

We had so many wonderful Volunteers that helped us today.  

Thank you all so very much.

Now, I have some scrapbooking to do. 

Happy Scrappin',

Janice