NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2012
JANUARY 23rd
Installation of Officers plus Honours and Awards. Installations will start at 2pm followed by awards and then supper at approx. 4:30 pm.
SPORTS
Zone Darts Feb 19th
Fun Darts Tues
MEAT DRAWS
Every Saturday at 2pm. Do you want to help with the draws and the Ways and Means Committee? Contact the office or anyone on the executive.
NO MEAT DRAW ON FEB. 4th due to the Variety Club Auction.
ENTERTAINMENT
What do you want for entertainment? Please let us know.
UPCOMING EVENTS
JANUARY 29th Variety club breakfast
FEBRUARY 4th Variety Club Auction
COLOUR PARTIES
We need more people to help with the Colour Parties and Honour Guards. Contact the office if you can help out.
GENERAL MEETING
Next General Meeting will be on Feb 26th at 1:30 pm
VETERANS PLATES
If you are a veteran, apply now for your veterans license plates.
MILITARY SERVICE RECOGNITION BOOK
All veterans who have not had their profiles published please contact Harry Welton. He will prepare or help prepare your profile and get it published. This is the seventh year this book has been published in BC.
GAVEL PASSING
The International Gavel passing will be held in Okanagan Falls this year. It will be held in Canada again in 2014 and the North Okanagan Zone will be the host. Our Branch is thinking of putting a bid to have the Gavel Passing held here in Salmon Arm. This is a Major commitment and a large committee will be needed to make it happen. Are you ready to help? Can we make it happen?
A Widow’s Anguish
A letter was received at Dominion Command, and forwarded to all branches. In this letter a widow explains her disappointment at her home branch as they did not support her husband’s funeral service with an Honour Guard. Just prior to the service excuses were made from the Sgt. at Arms that they could not attend the service. It was later found that the Sgt. at Arms and some of the executive were at their branch during the service.
The deceased was a vice-president, had performed many services for the branch over the years particularly during the Poppy Campaigns, raising many thousands of dollars. He was a veteran of the Second World War. The widow was very upset with the NON-support or representation from the branch.
This should not happen in any branch!