American Legion [Frank E. Booma Post 6 - Portsmouth, New Hampshire]

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Frank E. Booma Post 6
Portsmouth, NH

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THE FRANK E BOOMA POST 6

NEWSLETTER

Founded 1919

January 2008

Commander -- Elliott Antequera

COMMANDER’S MESSAGE

Happy New Year! A new beginning, a time to make sure your membership is up to date and to refresh your commitment to family, friends and our veterans of this great nation. While men and women are currently serving in the military at great sacrifice, we as members should be contributing to the betterment of the American Legion and Post. It is us as an organization that represents then not only in congress, state, and local level, but through our programs we serve the veterans and their families directly here at home. While the heart and soul of the American Legion rest in its millions of members, the nerve center of the organization rest on the individual member by lending their time and talent to its principles and programs. We at Post 6 have had a good year and with your commitment we can make 2008 a great year. Come Join Us!

Elliott Antequera, Post Commander

SURF & TURF SCHEDULE

January 5th – Post

January 128th – S.A.L.

January 195th – Unit

January 26th – Post

JUNIOR VICE COMMANDER’S MESSAGE

I want to thank everyone that made the Children's Christmas party a success this year with special appreciation to Janice Brown, Second Vice President for the Auxiliary. I want to thank Russ Brown, Russ Shetenhelm for being Santa, Bev Stone, President Sheila, Grant Bergeron, and Commander Elliott for all their help. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year.

Richard “Brooksie” Brooks, Jr Vice Commander

ADJUTANT’S MESSAGE

The New Year is here and again I want to tell all Legion members to "Please" update your mailing address, and for those families who have lost a Legion member it is important to let the Adjutant know so the Adjutant can inform the membership and notify Department, so that all communications to those members ceases. All Legion members are welcome to attend the Mid Winter Conference Saturday January 26, 2008 at the Memorial Middle School located at 150 McGrath Street, Laconia NH. Coffee and donuts will be served at 8:00 a.m. Registration will start at 8:30 a.m. All elected Post Delegates are required to attend this conference.

The Post is trying to meet it Mid Winter membership target of 80% by January 9, 2008. If you can, please send in your membership as soon as possible so the Post can meet it target of 80%. Thanks.

By the direction of the Department Commander Charles Lewis, a meeting was called to order on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 7:00 a.m. for the purpose: To elect a Department Assistant Service Officer, Department Chaplain, and Department Assistant Chaplain. The following were elected: Past Department Commander Robert Wyman, Department Assistant Service Officer; Raymond LaPointe, Department Chaplain, and Joseph Bisson, Department Assistant Chaplain.

Holiday greeting were sent to the Post from the following: 1. Past Commander and family, George Remick; 2. Pam Kenyon and 3. Department Service Officer, Gary Wayman and friend Stephanie Mosher

In closing, I wish the Legion Family a prosperous New Year.

George McCall, Post Adjutant

Need to send an email to the Post? boomapost6@comcast.net

REVISED POST CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS

Due to members not informing us (The Post) that they have a changed address and the cost of postage rates, the membership passed a motion on the floor to notify everyone through this newsletter of the following information.

If you or fellow Post members are interested in attending the reading of changes to our Constitution and Bylaws, please forward your request to receive a copy of the proposed Bylaws either by sending us a self addressed stamped envelope to hold 20 pages of 8-1/2 x 11 papers or for a copy on a personal computer CD.

Under ARTICLE XV of the current Post Constitution and Bylaws, we are required to forward, either in part or in its entirety, a copy of any proposed changes therein to every member of this Post.

Please read them in their entirety, many changes were made throughout their contents. All changes are identified as follows, the old readings have a single line drawn through them (still readable) and the proposed change(s) (in bold type) follows the strikethroughs. I have provided a key below.

The proposed revision was handed out to the membership on Thursday, November 15, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in the Post Home. A copy will be mailed out to all members of the Post for their review upon request. The proposal reading of the Bylaws will be held on Wednesday, January 3, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. At this meeting we will review each and every change that will be voted on. The regularly scheduled Post meeting on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. is the meeting we will vote for the adoption of the Post Constitution and By-Laws. At this meeting a two-thirds majority vote of those present will be required.

KEY: (Example 1) ~~Section 1. The meeting for Membership is every third Thursday of each month.~~ The Membership will meet in the upstairs hall every first and third Thursday of the month.

(Example 2) Article V

~~Duties of Officers~~

(Change to)

Ceremonies

ADD-IN will appear after any strikethroughs or "ADD ON" to a particular paragraph in a section.
ALL NEW will appear at the top of a page, under an Article or within an Article.

NEW will appear following the strikethroughs in an Article or Sections.
(Change to) will appear under Articles that were deleted or moved to another part of the By-Laws.

Frank Desper, Post Judge Advocate

SQUADRON COMMANDER’S MESSAGE

Hope everyone had a nice Christmas and has a good 2008. The Children’s Christmas Party was a big success. All the children had a good time. Hope to see you at the next S.A.L. meeting. We are looking for ideas for fund raisers, so bring your ideas and/or concern to the next meeting. See you then,

Michael Hunt, S.A.L. Commander

SQUADRON ADJUTANT’S MESSAGE

It is January 2008. You need a S.A.L. 2008 membership card to use the Grille. You are not allowed to be signed in. Mike Hunt is now the S.A.L. Commander and Drew Hogan is the Senior Vice Commander for the remainder of the term. I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and a safe New Year. We helped a needy family again this year for Christmas. The city has thanked us for a beautiful job we did on the POW/MIA monument. The next S.A.L. meeting is Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 6 p.m.

Bob Prendergast, S.A.L. Adjutant

BAND SCHEDULE

January 5th – 52nd Street

January 11th – Karaoke with DJ Darlene

January 12th – Ron Jones

January 19th – Bill Vendasi

January 26th – Jen Thayer

POST 6 COLOR GUARD MESSAGE

The Post Color Guard will be holding its monthly Fish Fry on Friday, January 4, 2008 from 4 - 7 pm.

Thank You for your loyalty and please continue to support us,

Your 2 Time National Post 6 Color Guard

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Winter is upon us. I hope everyone has had a very Merry Christmas and I hope you have a Happy New Year to come. I would like to thank everyone who worked to make the Thanksgiving Dinner a
success. The meal was fantastic!!! I would also like to thank everyone who made desserts!!!! There were more desserts than could be used on Thanksgiving Day so the remaining were put out for patrons of the Grille to enjoy over the next several days. Many thanks go out to Ella Studrance, Shirley Williams, Janice Brown and Karyl Horn for your joint effort in making the Auxiliary Cherry Tree Fund Raiser a success. A BIG Thank You to ALL that donated and to those that went to companies for donations of the prizes. These donations made it possible for the Auxiliary to raise $1009.00 to be used for the Auxiliary Projects. The Children's Christmas Party was delayed due to Mother Nature and Old Man
Winter duking it out. I need to extend a Big, Big "Thank you" to Russ and Janice Brown. Due to the Corporate Donations not coming through in the amount hoped for Janice and Russ used their own money to make the Children's Christmas Party happen. Between the Sons of the American Legion, Legion and the Auxiliary Janice and Russ have been reimbursed. I thank the organizations for coming through to give the Children a Merry Christmas. Thank you Santa for coming by the Legion as I know this time of year is busy for you. The December Auxiliary meeting was cancelled due to another battle between Mother Nature and Old Man Winter. The next meeting will be on January 10, 2008 at 7:00 P.M. The next Auxiliary Dinner will be January 18, 2007. Look for notices in the Grille and in the paper for the menu. Nominations of Auxiliary Officers for the 2008-2009 year will be held at the March 13, 2008 meeting. If you are interested in running for an Office please attend the meeting or have your letter of intent into the President before the night of the meeting. It has been strongly suggested by many that the Auxiliary do another Fund Raiser of the same type as the Cherry Tree around Easter. Easter is only a short time away. So if you would be willing to ask companies that you work for or places that you frequent to donate a gift certificate the Auxiliary could utilize these as prizes. The Auxiliary has a Non- Profit Tax ID # that can be given so that these companies can write off their donation. We have some plastic Easter Eggs that could be used as holders of the slips of paper that would have numbers on them to correlate with the prizes but would need many more Easter Eggs. Anyone willing to make donations of the Easter Eggs or gift certificates please contact me and we will see what we could do to make this happen.

Sheila Brooks, Unit President

AUXILIARY MEMBERSHIP

Ladies – If you have not paid your 2008, please do so. Your name will be removed from the mailing list and you will not receive a bulletin in February. Also, if you have a change of address, please notify me.

I would like to THANK everyone who sent cards and well-wishes while I was hospitalized and under the weather.

Shirley Calvert, Unit Membership Chairman

CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Happy New Year!!!! A thank you to those who helped wrap Christmas Presents, and helped me with the Children’s Christmas Party. Everything went very well, considering it was my first year. Santa made an appearance and was liked by most; some of the little ones wanted nothing to do with him. But a special thank you to Santa for taking time from his busy schedule to come and see us.

Janice Brown, Unit Children and Youth Chairman

GRILLE STEWARD’S MESSAGE

Happy New Year! I hope Santa was good to you all! We have some new and exciting entertainment for the coming year. To start off we will be having Karaoke every second Friday of the month with DJ Darlene, the Ron Jones Band and Jen Thayer Band are new to us and if you have not heard them they are all fantastic. Come in and dance the night away. We have Lucky 7 tickets on sale at the Grille for your enjoyment with Surf & Turf every Saturday afternoon starting at 3 p.m. Why not try your luck? As always we have free coffee and tea or hot cocoa if you prefer. Until next month stay safe and warm!

Sue Desper, Grille Steward