Ladies, as I reflect over the past six months of our Auxiliary and its programs, all I can think of is how great you areand I want to wish all of you a Very Happy New Year and to say thanks for the past six month. To finish the first six months I want to thank everyone who paid their dues and helped to make our Auxiliary 100.51%. Thanks to Trish James and her membership committee we have met all of our membership goals for this year. We have helped the Post with all of their Americanism programs and did an outstanding job. Our Veterans Day Parade float was the prettiest in the parade; of course I could be prejudice J . Thanks, goes out to Jimmy Carter, Post Jr. Vice for using his pickup to pull the float. The Post also supported our Gold Star Mother Banquet. We do such good programs when we work together. To my Community Service Chairman, Susie Carter, you did a great job on Make a Difference Day and Mission Thanksgiving. Also, Gloria Martinez, Hospital Chairman, for her special Patients Day Out and Make a Difference, Veterans Day and Christmas party at the Care Inn, you did so good. So, thanks to all who helped with these programs (you know who you are) if I forgot one name I would feel so bad. Our Buddy Poppy Hat contest was so well received and Trish, our Buddy Poppy Chairman, did such a good job of displaying them. By the way Trish’s hat won the contest with her Patriotic Hat. We even had the Jr. Girls decorate hats. I just appreciate you all so much. For the last minute idea of having our float in the Christmas Parade, I must thank Donna for the idea and Trish, Susie and Jimmy Carter for all their work. Thanks to our Jr. Girls and their sponsors for riding on the float. It was fun even if it was cold. To our Youth Activity Chairman, Janie Rodriguez, a big Thank You for a job well done. The Christmas Party for our deployed troop’s children was a great success. To all that helped support this party, I just want to thank you, there again, there were so many who pitched in to help I can’t remember all of them, guess I need to start writing down names. But I do want to thank Beryl who provided the magician, the kids loved him. Also wanted to thank Janie and Christene for the job they are doing with the Jr. Girls. Thanks to Christene Funderburg, Cancer Aid and Research Chairman, for the special guest speaker, Dr. Volter, for bring us a special educational program on Skin Cancer, I really enjoyed it and I think everyone else did too. And last but not least a big Thank you to Darline Jurkis for making sure we are meeting our legislative goals. Even though she is our District President she still finds time to help her auxiliary.

But most of all I want to thank all of our members who continue to support our Ladies Auxiliary, by coming to our meetings and bringing the wonderful food every month your dedication to our auxiliary is noticed and I thank you for even the smallest effort. It takes all of us working together to make our Auxiliary as great as it is.

So, I will close with one more Big Special Thanks to our Post Commander, Ralph Rodriguez for getting our Veterans Service Office to provide us with a special speaker, which helps us complete one of our programs. But most of all just for being so good to the Ladies Auxiliary and helping us in any way he can. Ralph you are the best

Now that I have tried to Thank everyone for their help with the first six months or our Ladies Auxiliary year 2010-2011 now we need to concentrate on the last six months

Our next meeting will be January 12th. The Post will provide Meatloaf for the dinner so be sure to bring a side dish or dessert and help us get the new year off to a good start.

Starting with January 2011 the list of activities is not to long but try not to forget any of the activities;
January 2011 Activities
Jan. 6th. 2:00 PM .........Care Inn Nursing Home help is always needed.
Jan. 8th 2:00 PM.........Our quarterly meeting with the VFW commander to plan our next 3 months activities. Chairman if you have an activity planned you need to attend this meeting and get it on the calendar.
Jan. 11th 6:30 PM ........Pot luck dinner bring your favorite soup, salad or dessert Post will furnish sandwiches
Jan. 11th 7:30 PM .......Ladies Auxiliary meeting
Jan. 16th 2:00 PM .......Chairman's meeting.
Jan. 20th 6:00 PM .......Program to commemorate the Vietnam Peace Accord
Jan. 27th thru 30th ...... Mid-Winter conference in Austin, Texas  

To my wonderful Chairmen, if you want an article in our newsletter please send them to me before the end of each month and I will include them in my Email Newsletter.

All Chairmen should start now on their year end reports. If you need help all you have to do is ask. We will start getting the pictures, canceled checks and other materials that you will need to do a good job on your year end report. Look at the year end report form to see if there is something you need to finish before the year is over. I know we are doing some great programs and we want our chairmen to be rewarded for all their hard work and it will happen if we send in a great year end report with all the supporting evidence of the work we have done.

Until next month let’s keep working together United by Love for our Veterans and Country And Community

Jeanie Bell
President, Ladies Auxiliary to Post 6873