DAV and Auxiliary to meet today
DAV Chapter 31 and their Auxiliary will hold their meetings today at the VFW Memorial Park north of Jamestown beginning with a picnic at 6 p.m. For more information, contact Adjutant Rod Olin at 659-0308.
Post 14 honors longtime members
Continuous years of membership awards were presented to members of the American Legion Post 14 at their May dinner meeting.
Receiving 70-year certificates were Gilbert Anderson, P.B. Johnson and Roy Ottinger; 65 years, Ernest Olstad; 60 years, Harlyn Brenneise, David E. Nething and Don Willey; 55 years, Michael Cleary, and 50 years, LeRoy C. Lange and Dale Repko.
Also at the meeting, District 4 Commander Bill Lipetsky of Kensal installed the Post 14 officers for the 2015-16 year. Installed were Rod Olin, commander; Warren Tobin, first vice commander; Glenn Johnson, second vice commander; Cliff Herrick, finance officer, and Warren Sand, sergeant-at-arms.
Post 14 will not meet during the summer months. The next meeting will be Sept. 22.
Jewels to have party at Top Designers
The Jewels of the Prairie Red Hat group will have a 39 Again Birthday Party at Top Designers in the Buffalo Mall at 11:30 a.m. June 9. There will be a catered lunch followed with a presentation and demonstrations by Shauna and Crystal of Skintastic Lazer and Body Bliss. Call Melva Oak (252-4935) with reservations by Sunday.
Dues need to be paid to be eligible for the discounted rate on the Foxfire motor coach tour July 29. Jackie Tarpinian will also take payments for the tour, $110 for members and $125 for family and friends who wish to go along.
Twenty-five Jewels met at the Gladstone Hotel & Suites in May. Emily Paulson and Ashley Lindberg, University of Jamestown nursing students who graduated this year, gave a PowerPoint presentation of their work study time spent in Malawi, Africa, in February. Not only did they have the opportunity to work in the hospital for several weeks taking care of the ill, delivering babies, administering medicines and working at clinics where people sometimes walk up to six miles just to see a doctor, but they helped at a food dispensary in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, where hundreds of children who have no food come to get some much needed nourishment. There is also a crisis clinic where abandoned children are kept, some because of a mother’s death, others because a family cannot take care of them, and the students expressed great sadness at some of the situations they witnessed. They did have some other activities such as a four-hour hike to the top of a mountain which what like rock climbing and was a challenge but the view was worth it. They were on a day safari and said they saw every kind of animal one could expect to see in Africa. They went on a night safari with flashlights and were almost afraid they were going to see animals.
Birthdays were acknowledged and information and details about the motorcoach tour to Walhalla to the production of “Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat” July 29 at the Foxfire Theater were distributed to everyone.
VFW and Auxiliary state convention set
VFW Post 9061 and Ladies Auxiliary, Fort Berthold, are hosting the 94th annual convention of the North Dakota Veterans of Foreign Wars and the 79th annual convention of the Ladies Auxiliary to the North Dakota Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The convention will begin Thursday and conclude Sunday at the Four Bears Casino.
Leading the convention will be North Dakota VFW State Commander Neil Prochnow of Mantador and Ladies Auxiliary President Rebecca Seehaver of Tuttle. Special guests representing National VFW and Ladies Auxiliary are Past National Commander-in-Chief James Mueller from Missouri and National Past President Leanne Lemley from Iowa.
All members of the North Dakota Veterans of Foreign Wars and Ladies Auxiliary are encouraged to attend. Additional information is available from the website
http://www.vfwnd.org/
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