It was a busy month for Post 44!
The weekend of May 1st members of Post 44 joined the Legion Riders in Tombstone for The Annual Bikers for Boots hosted by Roy Fourr Post 24. Representing Post 44 Legionnaires Randy Amos, Bobby Dunches and Scott Lane, Sons and Riders had Chris Tempsick, Chris Adams and Auxiliary Board members Susie Kaiser and Kathy Lewis. Thank you to all entities of the Legion for the donation of $1,000.00 which was presented to Post 24 on May 2nd by incoming Post 44 riders President Chris Tempsick.
Saturday May 16th Post 44 Auxillary in partnership with VFW Post 3513 Auxillary in sponsored the Annual Women Veterans Lunch which was held at the VFW. Thank you to June Moyer and Shirley Spencer for working with Tonda and Carol Nelson at the VFW to make this occasion worthy of our female veterans.
May 21st and 22nd the Auxillary participated in the annual Poppy drive. Thank you to Paul’s Ace Hardware for allowing us to set up in front of 3 locations and as in past years participation in their round up on the point of sales to make a sizeable contribution.
Memorial Day commemoration at Scottsdale Civic Center was the perfect ending a month of honoring our veterans and most importantly our Fallen Service Members. Thanks to the partnership with the American Legion Post 44, VFW Post 3513, Elks Lodge 2148 and Boy Scout Troop 440, we helped support the memory of our beloved fallen service members. Heartfelt rendition of the Star Spangle Banner was sung by Kim Jones and speeches were given by current and future Post 44 Commanders. Special thanks to the partnership of the City of Scottsdale.
