VFW Post
8495 News and Upcoming Events
July
2010
Tuesday
July 27 - Tribute, Signing of the Korean Armistice 7 pm on Freedom Hill
(click here)
Sunday
August 1 – Post Family Picnic –
12 noon til dusk (click here)
Thursday
September 2 – Picnic for vets
at Canandaigua VA Hospital 5 to 7 pm (click
here)
Saturday
September 11 – Patriots Day
Remembrance 11 am Ceremony on Freedom Hill
Saturday
September 18 - Golf reservations and sponsorships due for Golf
Tournament
Saturday
September 25 - Annual VFW Post 8495 Golf Tournament(click here)
Saturday
October 16 - Pig Roast at the
Post (click here)
Saturday
November 6 – Post Anniversary
Dinner Cocktails 6-7 pm, Dinner @ 7pm(click
here)
Thursday
November 11 – Veterans Day
Celebration Freedom Hill at 10:30 am
Mid
December – Kids Christmas Party
Mid December – Annual
Dinner for VA
patients
Veterans Help Page
2010 Korean War Veterans revisit Information
Post Activities
including,movie
Post Horseshoe Club
Veterans
Information WWll Vet Reg, Vietnam Virtual Wall
click for the
above information
Military Discounts -
Check this site for
stores, restaurants, products and services that offer discounts if you
ask. Click
Here
Korean Armistice Signing
Tribute
All are
invited to commemorate the signing of the Armistice ending the
hostilities on the Korean Peninsula in 1953. The ceremony will be held
on Freedom HIll at the post home at 300 Macedon Center Road in
Fairport. The ceremony will include a brief address by the commander
and commemorating the sacrifice of those from Fairport/Perinton who
made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
The ceremony
will be held Tuesday, July 27th at 7 PM.
Post Sick Call: Send
us
an e-mail about
any ailing
comrade
or call our
Post Chaplain
Frank Pittinaro at
(585)
223-7294 or Auxiliary Chaplain Linda Forbes at
586-8163
Members:
Auxiliary Members:
Ginny Wacenske - Home
Deceased
Members:
Auxiliary
Members
Don Flaherty -
5/28/10
John Cook -
6/20/10
Ellroy Schutt - 7/17/10 Past VFW Post
8495 Commander
(1960)
Past Monroe County VFW Commander
James W. Halligan - 7/18/10
Kenneth
R, Loveless - 7/21/10
Family Members
Helen M. Wittmann,
mother of Auxiliary Treasurer Gail Grube - 7/8/10
Joan
Lucci, wife of Past Commander Mike Lucci -7/9/10
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Post Activities
February 2010 Newsletter
VFW
Post 8495 History (Click
Here)
VFW
Post 8495 Ladies s Auxiliary History (Click
Here)
Our post is listed
on:AmericanTowns website for Fairport
http://www.AmericanTowns.com/ny/fairport
Facebook as Perinton Memorial VFW Post 8495
Twitter as VFW8495
June Newsletter
Rick and Pat
Gough, Dick and Gail Grube, Ken Gippe, and Linda Forbes had all the
newsletters stuffed,
labeled, and stamped on Monday night. Ken did the mailing on his way
home. A great job well done!!!
Tnx
- Dick Cronkite Editor
106%
Membership
Congratulations to
Junior Vice Commander Ken Gippe and Quartermaster Jerry Gropp
and all those
who helped in getting over 100% membership in 2010-2011 !!!!!
click for
pictures
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Post Support for
our Troops
- The post is
sponsoring 'care packages' to help our troops in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Bob Gill who has relatives in these
areas, will be chairmen
and
try to determine
most welcome needs from us. If you
know of a veteran that we should be sending
a package to, please call the post and leave a message for the Past
Commander Bob Gill
NASCAR
Special Events - The
post will
have weekly NASCAR pools and
special
NASCAR parties during the season. Call the post
for more details
about
the party
schedules.
$$$
Sign In at the lounge for daily
door prize. All
members have been pre-assigned a
random number.
When you visit the lounge, sign in and give the bartender a quarter for
the pot and
be eligible to win the pot. At closing time (you do not have to
be there to
win) a number
is pulled and if number pulled belongs to anyone who signed in that
day, they win the
pot. If no one wins, the pot grows. Daily winners are posted at
the bar.
Volunteer
Opportunities -
Volunteers are
needed at the VA Medical Center in Canandaigua.
At the Post contact Joel Smith
or contact Robin Johnson,
Volunteer Service Program
Manager at the
Canandaigua Hospital.
Many opportunities including drivers and other
necessary
activities.
Also, remember to leave your
donated pop or beer cans at the post .The money
from
the
cans goes to support the vets at Canandaigua
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Post
Picnic Our annual Post picnic will be held on Sunday
August 1, from noon ‘
til dusk at the post pavilion. Hots, hamburgers, sausage
and beverages will be provided.
Please
bring a dish to pass if you wish. Bring
your kids and grandkids; there will be
fun and games for all.
Canandaigua
VA Hospital Pizza and Picnic Thursday September
2nd from 5 pm to 7 pm which
replaces their evening meal.
The picnic will be at the Pavilion at Building 7
Joel
Smith has taken responsibility for the liaison with the VA Medical
Center in Canandaigua.
He is having
pizza parties at the hospital every month and needs volunteers for
these parties.
From all reports this is a very useful and satisfying activity.
The
big pizza picnic on September 2nd will need volunteers – please see
Joel Smith and sign up to help.
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Our
2nd annual Golf Outing is Saturday September 25TH.
Start to plan now. Get your foursomes together and plan to have a
great day of Golf, and Steak
Dinner back at
the Post along with lots of prizes and give-a-ways. Our outing
last year was a
great success and this year should be even better. We are
planning to help the VA Hospital
with the proceeds from the outing this year so plan to have a lot of fun
for
a great cause. Any questions call Dick Grube at 585-223-4400.
2nd Annual
VFW Post 8495
Golf Tournament Benefitting
The VA Hospital
Saturday September 25, 2010
Eagle Valley Golf Course
12:00 Registration – 1:00 Tee Time, 6:30 Dinner (VFW)
Scramble
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Print Out and send with payment
Please submit the names of the golfers in your foursome $ 75.00
per golfer
Reserve by September 18
Includes: golf, lunch, steak
dinner at the VFW Post and more
Contact Peraon/Golfer
1____________________________________________________________________
E-mail address
_________________________________________________________________
Golfer 2________________________________________________________________
Golfer 3________________________________________________________________
Golfer 4_______________________________________________________________
If you have additional Golfers please list below
Please submit Checks made out
to VFW Post 8495
Mail completed form and payment to:
VFW Post 8495
300 Macedon Center Road
Fairport, NY
14450
Attn: Dick Grube
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Hole Sponsors
2nd Annual
VFW Post 8495
Golf Tournament
Benefitting
The VA Hospital
Saturday September 25, 2010
Eagle Valley Golf Course
12:00 Registration – 1:00 Tee Time, 6:30
Dinner (VFW)
Scramble
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Print out and submit with payment
Hole Sponsors
$100.00 Each
Sign will be provided at tee for each sponsor
Sponsor deadline will be September 18th
Sponsors Name: _________________________________________
Address:________________________________________________
Phone No. ____________________Contact:___________________
Please submit Checks made out
to VFW Post 8495
Mail completed form and payment to:
VFW Post 8495
300 Macedon Center Road
Fairport, NY 14450
Attn: Dick Grub
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Annual
Pig Roast – Saturday October 16
We are planning our annual pig roast for
Saturday October 16 at the Post. Our theme this year is
“PIGGIN’ N PICKIN’”.
The meal will be roast pork, salt potatoes, corn and cornbread all
served up
country style. We will serve from 4 PM ‘til????.
Post Anniversary Dinner – Saturday November 6
The annual Post Anniversary Dinner will be held Saturday, November 6th
at the post. Cocktail
s begin at 6:00 PM with dinner at 7:00 PM.
This event is open to existing post and Auxiliary members and spouses
or significant other.
Please save the date and join us. As in the past, this is a catered
event.
More details will be in our next newsletter.
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VFW 8495 Horseshoe Club
The new Post Horseshoe Pitching Club starts on Mondays 5/24/10
and ends 8/30/10
(No pitching on 5/31/10 Memorial Day)
Rules
Practice starts at 5:30 pm games start at 6:00 pm
Cost is $3 a week . $2 goes to 1st and 2nd place winners. $1 goes for
end of year party and/or prizes.
Men shoot from 40 feet & cannot go over the 37 feet foul line until
the horseshoe is released.
Men over 70 and women can shoot from 30 feet and can not go over the 27
feet foul line until the horseshoe is released.
Horseshoes are to be thrown one at a time by a player and then the
other player throws.
Points will be given to the first, second and third place teams to
determine the winner at the end of the season
Partners are drawn each night.
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Saturday July 3rd - Independence Day
Parade
The parades will start off at the Fairport Baptist Home at 10am
sharp. Anyone that has either
a uniform or service cap will be
more than welcome to march with us. As usual, we will have
vehicles available for those who are unable to march and would like to
participate in the
parade. Meet at the post at 9am and we will
leave for the parade promptly at 9:30am. As in
the past, all
members are invited to a social hour after the parades at the Post Home
with food
and refreshments provided.
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Movie at the post
Second Saturday of the month
6pm
**Bring a dish to pass**
There will be a music video at 6pm
Our feature will start around 7pm
Rick Gough
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Veterans
Information Links
State
and County VFW Web
Sites:
State: http://www.vfwny.com
County: http://www. monroevfw.com
Changes in Flag Saluting for
veterans (click here)
The
National Registry for WWII Veterans
Available on the internet.
Our nations
World War 2 veterans can now use the internet to add their
names to the WWII
Memorial Registry
that
honors those who participated in our nations largest and
most devastating
war. Any American who served in
the armed forces or contributed to the war effort on the
home
front in factories and shipyards or farms and
neighborhoods is eligible to be added to the registry.
The web address
is www.WWIImemorial.com or click here WWII Registry
Viet Nam Virtual Wall
(received from Frank
Balik)
The link below is a virtual wall of all those lost
during
the Viet Nam
war with the names, bio's
and other information on our lost comrades. It is a very interesting
link, and those who served
in that time frame and lost friends or family can look them up on this
site.
First click on a state......then when it opens .........a
name.......then it should show you a picture
of the person or at least his bio and medals......
http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm
Veterans
Help Page click here
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