Post-Home Hours This Week (July 8-15): Your Post will be open on Friday and Saturday from 6 PM to 10 PM.
Friday, July 11th: Canteen open, 6 PM
Trivia Night, 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 12th: Canteen opens, 6 PM
Post Maintenance Day, 3 PM
Guitars for Vets, 9:00 AM
Tutubi Evolution, 7 PM
Sunday, July 13th: Zoom Yoga, 10:00 AM
Monday, July 14th: Post Officers Meeting, 7:00 AM
See the Post Calendar and Announcements for any last-minute updates.
EXTRA NEWS:
Big Thanks to Everyone who came to the July 4th Celebration: A good time was had by all! Thanks to Post Commander Mike Cantwell for flipping burgers and turning hot dogs for everyone, and a big thanks to Jinda Mounts for tending the bar and helping out with everything else.
Events like this celebration provide an excellent opportunity for our Post to meet one of our strategic goals: increasing camaraderie within the Post.
Trivia Night: Come and match wits with your Post’s most trivial minds and compete for fabulous prizes! Friday Night, 7:30 or so, the Post Commander will transform into a Trivia Master and moderate three rounds of Jeopardy-style trivia with buzzers and everything. Each round’s winner will receive a fully loaded gift card from Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts. Pick your team, sharpen your mind, and have some fun!
Post-Maintenance Work Day: This Saturday at 3:00 PM, we will hold our monthly Post-Maintenance Day. The plan is to tackle some lingering yard work and try to clean up some inside the Post. Bring your favorite implement of yard destruction and lend a hand.
Tutubi Evolution: S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night - S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night - Join your comrades and hear the greatest hits of the 70s, 80s, and 90s as interpreted by Tutubi Evolution. Tutubi will start playing at about 7:30 and have two sets. Bring your list of requests and see if they can cover your favorites. Admission is free, but the band would appreciate donations to cover their gas costs.
Donations: We still have two donation buttons on the weekly update this week. Here’s why. Our legal case is proceeding, as is our Zoning Infractions case. Both of these cases have reached a point where we need to dedicate resources to them. For the zoning case, we will need approximately $5,000 for a property title search and a certified survey for our property. Additionally, we will require a minimum of $10,000 for legal fees for both cases.
We cannot raise this amount of money by selling beer, wings, and pizza on Friday and Saturday nights. We need donations to support our Post in our legal battle with a neighbor with very deep pockets.
We have two members who are matching donations up to $1750 per month, but we will need more than that to sustain the fight.
We are starting to do some great things—Veterans and Memorial Day Ceremonies, supporting Veterans and Military members experiencing Food Insecurity, OPERATION WINTERHAVEN's Homeless Veteran Stand Down with the DC VA Hospital, Thanksgiving and Christmas food baskets, and parties for Service members in need. Still, this fight threatens the existence of the Post.
Please donate here: Donation to the Post’s Legal Defense Fund.
Mark your calendar: The anniversary of the Korean War Armistice is on July 27th. We need a Post member to take charge of that event. We have a Post Member with a medal from the Korean Embassy that they would like to award him. This would be a great opportunity for a Post member to help honor a Korean War Veteran and lead our Post's ceremony. Interested? Contact your Senior Vice Commander here.
Donation: Our programs support our service members while they’re on their lines, but they often get discharged long after they return. Your tax-deductible donation will help serve VFW programs where your support is most urgently needed.
John Lyon VFW Post 3150 depends entirely on active membership, participation, and volunteerism. There are many ways to participate and volunteer (even one or two hours a month), which impact the lives of veterans, their families, and our community. Please consider what additional contributions you can make this coming year to enhance further the success of our mission in 2025-2026.
VFW Action Corps Weekly - June 30, 2025
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