Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5690 Aux.

09/06/2019

Dear VFW Post’s, VFW Auxiliaries, Pup-tents, Friends of the Village
Effective 1 July 2019 we at the Village want to show our appreciation and any donations that we receive will be posted on our face book page with a photo of a “Big Check” and one of our residents thanking you for the donation!
If you have sent in a donation since July and it’s NOT posted on our face book page please call us at 352-236-0823~

You can always send me an email at [email protected]

As I start my 13th year as your director I want to say thank you to all of you for helping us at the Village improve the quality of life for all of our residents!
This is a TEAM effort and we cannot do it without your continued support~
The Village golf & picnic weekend its 20 & 21 March 2020 and we will be celebrating our 20th Annual Picnic with you and our National Auxiliary President is scheduled to be here!

Scouts Out~
(Pictured below is one of our residents, Mr. Ken Colwell.)

09/06/2019

Here is a local location asking for donations to go to the Bahamas

Good morning cheesecake lovers! First I would like to say how great our community is.... Last nights meeting I put together last minute was a great turn out and so excited to say we as Port Charlotte/Punta Gorda/North Port have so many resources within our areas and this turn out for the bahamas donations is going to be amazing and just fill my ❤️ with happiness!
Just to fill everyone in we have a couple ppl from the group we have put together as our Hurricane Relief team for our area flying over to bahamas this weekend with a huge donation of medical supplies and to scoop things out and get feel of where we can land and the best area for us to drop donations. Our goal in this is to make sure these supplies get to the smaller areas in need that cant get to locations for help. So we are strongly working and communicating together about 20 local business owners to make sure this happens! There is no clearance at this time for landing in these smaller areas and everything is a day by day basis right now.
I have a Penske 26ft truck being delivered (thanks to C & F Movers) to my shop to load with supplies as this truck will be shipped from Fort Lauderdale Balaeria Caribbean cargos ferry to freeport and abaco at no cost Thanks to a great connection/friend I have that reached out! This truck will leave for Fort Lauderdale on Sept 19th in which I then fly out to go to bahamas personally myself and to assure these supplies arrive and go to the ones in need so that gives us exactly 2 weeks to fill this truck SO PLEASE LETS KEEP THE DONATIONS COMING! Lets make this big and amazing coming from our community... next on bigger bulk items like tents, air mattress, generators, these items we will be taking by plane and boat when we have clearance for landing and safe to dock... as we go along we will keep everyone informed but mean while please please please lets keep the donations coming... thank you all in advanced...

List of supplies needed and accepted:

PLEASE NOTE: these are the gift cards the will be accepted as they are the places available abd open in NASSAU where alot of families have gone over to since there was minimum damages in Nassau and these places have power and hotels available for families:

Gift cards accepted:
Kfc
Pizza hut
Dominos
Marcos
McDonald’s
Taco bell
Papa johns
Pollo tropical
Burger King
Wendys
Popeyes
Outback
Cvs
Any Visa or Mastercard logo gift cards that can be used anywhere for families to use at grocery stores over there. (They do not have any that we have)

Now for supplies:
NEW SHEETS and New blankets (big item needed)
Tents
Air mattresses
Medical supplies
Can goods
Boxed foods (only new unopened)
Diapers
Formula
Cereal
Animal food (pop tops)
Can openers
Toliet paper
Paper towels
Toiletries (new only please)
Lotions
Soap
Laundry soap
Toothpaste
Shampoo conditioner
Toothbrushes
Deodorant
New Socks
New slides or flip flops
Plastic wear
Paper products
Batteries
Lanterns
Flashlights
Portable chargers
Generators
If anyone is wanting to donate NEW CLOTHES ONLY we will accept that.

09/06/2019

Our Hurricane team drop off locations!

08/28/2019

Share the VFW Auxiliary Resource Card with your members and those in your community. It includes phone numbers and websites for 20 organizations and agencies that offer support to veterans, active-duty service members and their families. Download it today! http://bit.ly/2z3u34v

08/25/2019

Find the tools you need to “Serve Our Veterans with Aloha” in the 2019-2020 National Program Book: https://vfwauxiliary.org/resources

It’s available to all members online - for free!

Download this year’s Program Book to:
• Learn about the 11 National Programs and Program Goals.
• Meet the 2019-2020 National Ambassadors and Conference Coaches.
• See the Awards for each National Program.
• Find out what National Headquarters needs to know for reporting purposes.

Please note:
The Program Book is 82 pages. You do not need to print the entire book. You can choose to print only the pages you need!

08/25/2019

The Legislative Program promotes VFW Priority Goals, VFW Action Corps and contacts legislators about issues that affect veterans and active-duty military.

08/25/2019

The Clinton County Sheriff's Office in Indiana recently paid tribute to one of their deputies who served in the military.

08/25/2019

Our Pasta Night Dinner