VFW Post 1136

09/01/2026

Woohoo! Two weeks away and we still have room for vendors, crafters and local artisans! Call Barb for more details and to reserve your spot! ⭐️

🌻 COMING SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12th 2026 🌻

The VFW Post 1136 Auxiliary is excited to announce our first-ever Makers, Bakers & Growers Market!

Our vision is a community market that celebrates the talents of local makers, bakers, growers, and artisans. We're looking for vendors who offer handmade, homemade, homegrown, and locally crafted products such as:

🍞 Sourdough & baked goods
🍯 Honey, jams & jellies
🕯️ Candles & soaps
🌿 Farm & garden products
🧶 Fiber arts & textiles
🪵 Woodworking & handcrafted goods
🥧 Small-batch specialty foods
…and other unique locally crafted products!

✅ FREE vendor spaces
✅ FREE admission to the public
✅ Family-friendly community event

We are currently accepting handmade, homemade, and homegrown vendors only 🧺🌿

This event is focused on supporting local artisans, bakers, and growers—items should be created or produced by you.

🚫 Please note: We are not accepting MLM/direct sales, mass-produced items, or 3D-printed resale products at this time.

If you're a local artisan, home chef, baker or vendor who may like to participate, or if you know someone who would be a great fit, please comment below or send Barbara Ann-Helene Kanalos a message here on Facebook or at her number provided below.

Let's come together to showcase the incredible talent, craftsmanship, and small businesses in our community.

08/28/2026

Today is a day we have prayed for, hoped for, cried for, and believed would come. And today, we can finally say it…

GENE OLSON’S CANCER IS CURED. 🙏😭❤️

After one of the hardest years imaginable, Gene received the news today that we have all been praying for, his PET scan is CLEAR. 🥹🙌

There really are no words big enough to describe what this means to Gene, his girls, and all of us who love him. We have watched our dear friend fight through pain, fear, uncertainty, treatments, appointments, and days when the road ahead seemed impossibly long.

We prayed for healing.
We prayed for strength.
We prayed for the doctors and specialists caring for Gene.

We are incredibly grateful for the amazing doctors, nurses, specialists, family, friends, and everyone who lifted Gene up.

Gene, you have been loved, prayed over, worried about, cheered for, and carried in the hearts of so many people this year. We love you so much. ❤️

Your fight has inspired so many of us. Your strength has reminded us that even when we cannot see the way forward, God is already making a way.

Please join all of us at the VFW and everyone who loves Gene in celebrating this incredible news and continuing to pray for him as he begins this next chapter, a chapter of healing, restoration, gratitude, and LIFE. ❤️

WELCOME TO YOUR NEW CHAPTER, GENE. ❤️

We love you more than you know.
We are SO incredibly happy for you.

⭐️ GOD IS GOOD. ALL THE TIME ⭐️

08/28/2026

VFW Post 1136 Commander Tracy Nagy and Junior Vice Commander Kraig Moniuszko attended the dinner for VFW Auxiliary National President Donna Mills at the Owosso Post 9455 this evening. 🤩 It’s been great to see the representation from District 4 for this visit! Thanks Kraig and Tracy for taking the time to represent Post 1136! ❤️

08/27/2026

Our friends at Taylor VFW Post 4422 are keeping the fun going the last Monday of every month! 🎉🙌 Conroy-Renye-McNeil VFW Post and Auxiliary 4422

Support Post 4422 and have a night of 🤔🧠 TRIVIA, FOOD, DRINKS & FUN! 🍻🌮

📚 History
🎶 Music
🌎 General Knowledge
🏈 Sports
🎬 Movies
…and SO much more!

$10 per person
🍽️ Dinner is included — tacos & rice! 🌮🍚
🎤 Hosted by Joseph Cotton!
🏆 Put your team together, bring your friends, test your knowledge and see who takes home the bragging rights! 😎💪

📅 Next Trivia Night: Monday, August 31st
⏰ 6:00 PM
📍 Taylor VFW Post 4422-11590 Pine Street

We’re always happy to support our fellow VFW Posts and the amazing things they do for our veterans and our community. 🇺🇸❤️

So grab your crew, grab a drink 🍻, grab a plate 🌮 and get ready to put those brains to work! 🧠😂

Come out and support Taylor VFW! 🇺🇸

08/19/2026

It is with tremendous sadness that I want to share that we said goodbye to an extraordinary woman, Deni Girl Hunter. This morning I found it difficult to find the words to truly capture what she meant to so many of us.

Deni was one of a kind. She was strong, independent, intelligent, and quietly powerful. She never needed to be the loudest person in the room to make an impact. Sometimes, she didn’t need many words at all, you simply knew exactly what she was thinking. There was a strength in her presence that you felt, even when she said very little.

Deni was a shining example of the kind of woman so many of us have been fortunate enough to know, learn from, and look up to. She carried herself with a confidence and authenticity that was entirely her own. She was unapologetically herself, and that is something that made her so incredibly special.

Her contributions to our Auxiliary family, her years of service to other organizations, her fierceness, protection and love for her children and her grandchildren, and the countless lives she touched cannot be measured simply by titles or accomplishments.

Her impact was so much bigger than all of that. She helped shape the people and the organization around her simply by being the person she was.

For those of us who had the privilege of knowing her, there will be an emptiness where her presence once was. We will miss her strength. We will miss her wit. We will miss those moments when one look from her could say more than a whole conversation ever could. And we will miss simply knowing that Deni was there.

This is a tremendous loss, not only for her family and friends, but for our entire VFW Auxiliary family.

Deni Girl, thank you for being exactly who you were. Thank you for the example you set, the lives you touched, and the strength you quietly shared with all of us.

You were truly one of a kind, and you will never be forgotten.

Rest peacefully, Your work here is done, but your impact will live on in all of us who were lucky enough to know you. ❤️

Our deepest condolences and love to Deni’s family, friends, and everyone who is grieving this incredible loss. 😔

08/18/2026

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08/17/2026

🦁🏈🇵🇱 POLISH DINNER + LIONS GAME DAY! 🇵🇱🏈🦁

Get ready for a Sunday filled with FOOD, FOOTBALL & FUN! 🎉🍽️🍺

🇵🇱 ALL HOMEMADE Polish Dinner
📅 Sunday, September 13
⏰ 2:00–5:00 PM
💰 Only $20 per dinner!

Golabki (Stuffed cabbage) 🥬
Haluski (Egg noodles with fried cabbage and bacon) 🍜
Pierogi (Potato & cheese dumplings) 🥟
Kielbasa and kraut 🥬
Bread 🥖 & Butter 🧈
Dessert 🍪 🧁

🦁🏈 The Detroit Lions kick off their first regular-season home game at 1:00 PM, so come watch the Lions, enjoy the game-day atmosphere, and then stick around for a delicious Polish dinner! 💙🤍

🍽️ Come hungry!
🏈 Come ready to cheer!
🇵🇱 Come celebrate with us!

Bring your friends, bring your family, wear your Lions gear, and make a day of it! 🦁💙🏈

📣 SAVE THE DATE -SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13!
We’ll see you for Polish food, Lions football & a whole lot of fun! 🍻🇵🇱🦁

08/17/2026

🇺🇸❤️ A MOMENT TO BE PROUD OF — VFW POST 1136 ❤️🇺🇸

Last night, our own Post Commander Tracy Nagy and Auxiliary Chaplain Kellie Stec were featured on CBS Detroit for the work our Post and Auxiliary are doing to collect donations for the deployed troops from Selfridge Air National Guard Base. 🇺🇸🎖️

We want to send a heartfelt THANK YOU to Tracy and Kellie for representing Post 1136 so beautifully and for helping shine a light on something that means so much to all of us supporting our service members who are away from home. ❤️🤍💙

The truth is, none of us do what we do for the accolades. We do it because we believe in taking care of our veterans. We do it because it’s the right thing to do.

But every once in a while, it sure is wonderful to see that work shared on a broader stage. And last night’s CBS Detroit feature gave our entire Post and Auxiliary an opportunity to celebrate the incredible generosity of our members and our community. 🇺🇸

From the people who donate, the other Posts and Auxiliaries that brought us their donations, to the people who collect and deliver, to everyone who simply says, “What can I do to help?” this is what District 4 and Post 1136 is all about. We love you! 🥰

08/14/2026

Our VFW Auxiliary is already collecting donations to support the deployed troops out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base, and we are incredibly grateful for the generosity and support we have received from our members and community. 🇺🇸📦❤️

⭐️ AND ⭐️

We are now hoping to extend that support even further. Thanks to the suggestion of VFW Post 1136 Auxiliary Chaplain Kellie Stec, we are currently working to establish communication with the Ombudsman for the USS Abraham Lincoln so that we can find out exactly what the sailors aboard the ship need and the proper way to get donations to them. ⚓️🇺🇸

We want to make sure that anything we collect is truly needed and can actually make its way into the hands of the sailors who are serving so far from home. Once we receive guidance and know what is needed, we will share that information with our membership.

This is simply a heads-up that we are working on another way to show our deployed service members that they are NOT forgotten. ❤️🇺🇸

Whether they are serving from Selfridge or aboard a Navy carrier far from home, these men and women are making sacrifices for all of us. The least we can do is remind them that their communities back home are thinking about them, praying for them, and standing behind them. 🇺🇸❤️