As soon as your elections are concluded, please prepare and submit your election reports online to National with copies to District. Election reports online are forwarded directly to Department by National. If you are old school and prepare the reports manually, then copies must be submitted both to Department and District.

There is a requirement that the installing officer review the DD-214’s of the incoming officers. Over the years there have been several instances where individuals were installed and later found to be ineligible. Had procedures been followed, that would have never happened. Bottom line, please have a folder available for the installing officer to review prior to the meeting.

Here is a note I received from Arden

“we are postponing our meeting from the first Thursday to the third Thursday, May 21st.I’m going to be on vacation and the ladies don’t want to have our installation without me.How nice!!!!Hope to see you at the breakfast on the 21st of March.”

Hope your vacation is a good one.

Please note that that is the May meeting—Not April.

Post 8870 voted to move its monthly meeting from noon on the second Friday of the month to a 6PM meeting on the third Tuesday of the month. The meetings will continue to be held at the American Legion Hall. A light meal will be served at 5:15PM and the business meeting will commence at 6PM. The reason for the move is to allow the younger veterans (and a lot of older veterans, too) who are still working to attend the meetings. Arrangements will be made to assist those comrades who cannot drive in the dark.

There are a couple of fees each Post has to pay in the next month. First, Department will be sending you a State Delegate Fee based on your Post membership on April 15th. The fee is $6 per delegate and delegates are computed on one per thirty member plus one for the Commander.

The second fee is for the National Convention. A minimum of one delegate fee of $25 must be paid plus an additional $10 for each delegate attending the Convention. Please make sure your QM is on top of these payments.

Department announced that next year’s youth essay theme will be

“Why is America My Favorite Country?”

National has also announced their themes. They are:

Themes for Voice of Democracy are “My Vision for America” while the Patriots Pen theme will be “What Freedom Means to Me”.

It’s not too early to let your teachers and schools know the themes so they can build them into their curriculum for next year.

Same time and place unless indicated below. See the listing from the links on left sidebar.

If you change the date or time of your meeting, please let both District and Department know of the change.

Edmonds Post #8870
Meeting Date: 3rd Tuesday– 6:00 PM (Dinner at 5:15PM);
Auxiliary will continue to meet the 2nd Friday at the Edmonds Senior Center-Lunch 11:45AM-Meeting at 12:30