What’s for Dinner Tonight? Greek Food Night!

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Another busy week at Legion Post 25 the week of April 29 – May 5, 2024!

Greetings!

What’s for dinner tonight? Brandi, Peg, and the Post 25 Kitchen Crew will be serving Greek food, as well as our usual Chicken Wings.

The Greek Night menu includes:

Greet Meatballs – Feta Cheese & Fresh Herbs

Slovaki – Pork Skewers Marinated in Spices

Mediterranean Fish Bake – Fish baked with Onions, Peppers, Olives, & Herbs

Side Dishes –  Lemon & Garlic Potatoes, Greek-style Green Beans, or Fresh Tzatziki

Local favorite Tom Hanson will perform from 5-8 pm.

A reminder: The Post 25 Donnie Quintoni Benefit will be on Saturday, May 18 from 4:30 to 8 PM. George & Gwen will perform from 5-8 PM. Dinner menu To-Be-Announced.

Tickets $25 each. Donnie recently suffered a house fire and a total loss. All proceeds, including George & Gwen’s usual performance fee, will go to Donnie to help rebuild his life.

Sunday, May 12, 2024 – Mother’s Day Dinner 4-6 pm. Lasagna with salad, and garlic bread. A Lil’ Mixed Up will perform from 5-8 pm.

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See you all at Post 25!

ROADKILL will be back on Saturday, May 18, 2024, 2-4 PM.
Fast Fun! Cards crashes into BINGO! Win MEATS!!!

 

Here’s What’s Happening This Week at Legion Post 25

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Another busy week at Legion Post 25 the week of April 29 – May 5, 2024!

Greetings,
   Before we get to the weekly schedule, last Saturday we had 30 in attendance for our Post 25 Kentucky Derby Party. With plenty of snacks and drinks, a good time was had by all!

Coming Up This Week at Post 25!

Monday, May 6, 2024 – Shuffleboard at 1 pm, Chips Ahoy at 3 pm, Darts at 6 pm, $2 Bloody Mary drinks and $1 draft beers.
The Sons of the American Legion will have their monthly business meeting at 6 PM. ALL MEMBERS of the Sons are invited. Come on by and see what we do.

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 – Taco Tuesday from 1:30 to 6:30 pm; Euchre at 1 pm; Chips Ahoy at 3 pm; SAL Bingo at 6:30 pm; $3 Margaritas (to go with your tacos!)

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 – Salisbury Steak, Chicken Wings & Greek food; Chips Ahoy at 1 pm; Tom Hanson will play from 5-8 pm.

Thursday, May 9, 2024 – Create-A-Pizza from 1:30 to 6:30; Poker at 1 pm; Chips Ahoy at 3 pm.
The Auxiliary will have their monthly meeting at 5 pm in the Auxiliary Room.

Friday, May 10, 2024 – Prime Rib and Fried Fish for dinner from 4:30 to 6:30; Chips Ahoy at 1 pm; and Night Grooves will perform from 6-9 pm. 

Saturday, May 11, 2025 – Chips A’Hoy and Texas Hold’em at 1 pm. Burgers and hotdogs on the grill from 12 Noon to 2 pm. Do you have a song in your heart? TJ Karaoke will help you belt out your best from 5-8 pm!
Lake Country Cruisers Car & Bike Show in the Legion’s south parking lot from 11 am to 1:30 pm. $5 entrance fee, door prizes, and a very generous 50/50! They will have classic cars, muscle cars, hot rods, muscle trucks, sports cars, survivor cars, and everything in between.

Sunday, May 12, 2024 – Mother’s Day Dinner 4-6 pm. Lasagna with salad, and garlic bread. A Lil’ Mixed Up will perform from 5-8 pm.

Follow us on Facebook, HERE!

See you all at Post 25!

ROADKILL will be back on Saturday, May 18, 2024, 2-4 PM.
Fast Fun! Cards crashes into BINGO! Win MEATS!!!

 

Legion Post 25’s May 2024 Calendar is HERE!

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Greetings,
   American Legion Post 25’s May Calendar of Events is now available.

To see the BIG version, CLICK HERE!

See you all at Post 25!

Next ROADKILL Game – May 18, 2024, 2-4 PM
“Cards” Crashes into “BINGO”!
WIN MEATS!

 

Coming Up This Week at Post 25!

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Another busy week at Legion Post 25 the week of April 29 – May 5, 2024!

Greetings,
   Before we get to the weekly schedule, we are launching a NEW Queen of Hearts game starting this Friday night!!! Details to come!

Coming Up This Week at Post 25!

Monday, April 29, 2024 – Shuffleboard at 1 pm, Chips Ahoy at 3 pm, Darts at 6 pm, $2 Bloody Mary drinks and $1 draft beers.

Tuesday, April 30, 2024 – Taco Tuesday from 1:30 to 6:30 pm; Euchre at 1 pm; Chips Ahoy at 3 pm; SAL Bingo at 6:30 pm; $3 Margaritas (to go with your tacos!)

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 – Salisbury Steak &Chicken Wings; Chips Ahoy at 1 pm; Double Trouble will play from 5-8 pm.

Thursday, May 2, 2024 – Create-A-Pizza from 1:30 to 6:30; Poker at 1 pm; Chips Ahoy at 3 pm.

Friday, April 26, 2024 – Prime Rib and Fried Fish for dinner from 4:30 to 6:30; Chips Ahoy at 1 pm; and The Walker Smith Band will perform from 6-9 pm. 

Saturday, May 5, 2025– Kentucky Derby Party – 5 pm till the horses cross the finish line! Bring a snack to share!

Sunday, May 5, 2024 –Bar Food and REKT Duo will perform from 5-8 pm.

Last Saturday Highlands County Corvettes had a PERFECT day for a Corvette Car Show in the south parking lot at Post 25. Thirty-seven beautiful Corvettes packed the parking lot! Lake Country Cruisers generously donated “Chevy Shirts” to anyone who wanted one, or two!

The next Highlands County Corvettes Car Show will be on Saturday, May 25, 2024, from 11 am to 2 pm. Post 25’s regionally famous burgers and dogs will be cooking on the backyard grill! If you have always admired Corvettes, come on my next month and enjoy all the pretty fiberglass!

Part-time Lake Placid resident Dan Barr brought his stunning, Superformance 1963 Grand Sport Corvette. Highlands County loves Corvettes!

See you all at Post 25!

ROADKILL will be back on Saturday, May 18, 2024, 2-4 PM.
Fast Fun! Cards crashes into BINGO! Win MEATS!!!

 

This Week at Post 25!

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Here’s what’s happening the week of April 22 – 28, 2024!

Greetings,

Before we get to the weekly schedule, our Queen of Hearts game had a WINNER last Friday night!!! $15,000 was paid out!

We will be starting a new board this Friday. Details to come!

Here’s the schedule for this week at Legion Post 25!

Monday, April 22, 2024 – Shuffleboard at 1 pm, Chips Ahoy at 3 pm, Darts at 6 pm, $2 Bloody Mary drinks and $1 draft beers.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024 – Taco Tuesday from 1:30 to 6:30 pm; Euchre at 1 pm; Chips Ahoy at 3 pm; SAL Bingo at 6:30 pm; $3 Margaritas (to go with your tacos!)

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 – Salisbury Steak &Chicken Wings; Chips Ahoy at 1 pm; Rocky Trop will play from 5-8 pm.

Thursday, April 25, 2024 – Create-A-Pizza from 1:30 to 6:30; Poker at 1 pm; Chips Ahoy at 3 pm.

 

Friday, April 26, 2024 – Prime Rib and Fried Fish for dinner from 4:30 to 6:30; Chips Ahoy at 1 pm; and Randy Sullens will perform from 6-9 pm.

Saturday, April 27, 2024 – Highlands County Corvettes Car Show from 11 am to 2 pm; Burgers & Dogs from 12 noon to 2 pm; Chips Ahoy at 1 pm; and Texas Hold’em at 1 pm.

Sunday, April 28, 2024 – Bar Food, and Cowboy will perform from 5-8 pm.

See you all at Post 25!

 

ROADKILL will be back on Saturday, May 18, 2024, 3-5 PM.
Fast Fun! Cards crashes into BINGO! Win MEATS!!!

 

SNL Drive this Wednesday Night!

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Greetings,
   Here is an important reminder that this Wednesday evening SNL Drive will be performing at Post 25 from 5-8 PM. The Post 25 Mess Hall Kitchen will be serving either Wings or Salisbury Steak for dinner!

Don’t forget Taco Tuesday and Create-A-Pizza on Thursday, from 1 pm to 6:30 PM. Also, this Friday the AMAZING George & Gwen will ROCK THE HOUSE! Let’s fill up the parking lot like we did last Friday night!

And most importantly, this Saturday, April 20, ROADKILL is back at your Post 25, 3-5 pm. “Cards crash into BINGO”! Bring friends. Get ready to be silly! We will have a 50/50 raffle too!!! Fast fun! Win meats!

See you at Post 25!

Saturday, April 20 ROADKILL
will be back at Post 25, 3-5 pm.

Legion Post 25 Beautification Project (April Yard Party)

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CALLING ALL PRESSURE WASHERS!

Greetings,
   Since last fall we have been working on Post 25’s outsides. We’ve had several “Yard Parties” and things are coming together. Actually, we have a lot more to do and several surprises in store.

On Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 8:30 AM we will be having another Post 25 Yard Party. The project for the day will be PRESSURE WASHING. If you have a pressure washer and would like to donate it for the day, or better yet, join us with your pressure washer, that would be great! We will supply the gasoline. Bring some garden hoses too.

We would like to have a squad of volunteers with as many pressure washers as we can get to complete the project in one day! The more pressure washers we have, the quicker we’ll get the project done.

This is OUR Post, yours and mine. Our goal is to get the outside all spiffed up BEFORE it gets HOT.

So, we need your help.

If you’d like to join the party, contact either Commander Jake Gordon at… jgordon1619@yahoo.com , or 1st Vice Commander, Scott Teeters at… lightoak@comcast.net

UPDATE: “Gator” will not be performing tonight due to a death in the family. Local favorite, Tom Hanson will be performing from 5-8 PM. The Post 25 Mess Hall will be serving Wings and Salisbury Steak for dinner from 4:30 to 6:30.

Thursday is “Create-A-Pizza Day. The Mess Hall will make you a fantastic, delicious pizza from 1:30 to 6:30. So, you can have pizza for lunch or dinner, OR BOTH if you want!

Friday night “George & Gwen” will rock the house from 6-9 PM and the Mess Hall kitchen will be serving Prime Rib and Fried Fish for dinner from 4:30 to 6:30.

Come early, eat GOOD, and dance holes in your shoes!

On Saturday, Lake Country Cruisers will be having their monthly Car & Bike Show from 11 AM to 1:30 PM. Burgers Cheeseburgers & Dogs on the grill from 12 Noon to 2 PM. Bring your appetite, the burgers are GREAT!

See you at Post 25!

PS – Don’t forget, our Queen of Hearts Game has maxed out at $15,000!!! Tickets are available at the Bar or on Friday evening. There are only ELEVEN cards left on the board. Friday night COULD BE YOUR NIGHT!

The next ROADKILL game is on April 20, 2024, from 3-5 pm.
“Cards” crashes into “BINGO”! FAST FUN! Win MEATS!

Check out the Post 25 events for April 2024, HERE!

Did You Know? History of the Pig War by Larry Gerlack

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The Almost, “Pig War” of 1859

Our Post 25 resident historian, Larry Gerlack always delivers fascinating, little-known, and mostly forgotten American history stories. Larry’s monthly history lessons are on the back of the monthly Post 25 Calendar of Events.

Here’s Larry’s essay for April 2024, “The Pig War of 1859”.

One of the little-known and strange wars of the United States took place in 1859.

The crisis came on June 15, 1859, when Lyman Cutlar, an American, shot and killed a British pig rooting in his garden. When the British authorities threatened to arrest Cutlar, and evict all Americans from the island as “trespassers”, a delegation sought military protection from a Brigadier General.

This was not the first time that one of the Belle Vue Sheep Farm’s pigs had invaded Cutlar’s farmstead on one of the San Juan Islands, between Vancouver Island (present-day Canada). But when Cutlar woke up to find a herdsman named Jacob laughing that the pig “was up to his old game”, he picked up his gun and in a moment of irritation, killed the pig!

The killing of a British pig by an American settler triggered an international confrontation that almost set the U.S. and Britain to war. (actually, it didn’t take much, as there was still a lot of animosity towards the Yanks from the British)

The war is celebrated as “The Pig War” and it was ultimately resolved by negotiations and compromise, instead of guns and force. There were no casualties, except for the pig.

See you at Post 25!

The next Post 25 ROADKILL game is
Saturday, April 20, 2024 from 3-6 PM.
FAST FUN! WIN MEATS!

Wednesday Night – Tom Hanson from 5-8 PM

Friday Night – “Jay” from 6-9 PM

Saturday, April 13, 2024,
Lake Country Cruisers Car& Bike Show,
11 AM to 1:30 PM – Burgers & Dogs on the grill!

The 2024 Auxiliary Sock Hop Has Been Canceled

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Greetings,

   We regret to inform everyone that Donna James, the Auxiliary President has CANCELED the scheduled April 13, 2024, Sock Hop because of low ticket sales. It happens.

Here’s what’s coming up at Post 25 for the rest of the week!

Wednesday, April 3, 2024 – Chicken Wings and Salisbury Steak for dinner, and Memories Dance Party Band will perform from 5-8 pm.

Thursday, April 4, 2024 – Create A Pizza for dinner from 4:30 to 6:30 PM.

Friday, April 5, 2024 – Prime Rib or Fried Fish for dinner, 4:30-6:30, and Night Grooves will perform from 6-to-9 PM.

Saturday, April 6, 2024 – Burgers & Dogs from 12 Noon to 2 PM. TJ Karaoke from 5-8 pm.

Sunday, April 7, 2024 – Dinner at the Bar and Randy Sullens will perform from 5-8-PM.

PS – POST 25 OFFICER ELECTIONS,
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2024,
FROM 12 NOON TO 6 PM.

See you all at Post 25!

Saturday, April 20, 2024, “ROAD KILL!”
Cards, Meets BINGO!
Fast Fun, win MEATS!

 

Do you know Henry H. Peterson? Purple Heart Mystery.

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Greetings,

We are attempting to locate a Purple Heart recipient by the name of Henry H. Peterson.

His Purple Heart medal was found in someone’s personal effects and the family has no idea who it belongs to.

They gave us the medal hoping we could solve this.

If you can assist us, we would like to return it to Henry or his next of kin.

Please forward any information to; Rich Lien, Asst. Honor Guard Leader; 763-755-4760.

Thanks.

See you at Post 25!

BREAKING NEWS!
This just in from Auxiliary President, Donna James;
the April 13, 2024, Sock Hop has been CANCELED.

Next ROADKILL Game, April 20, 2024, 3-5 PM