Legion Post 25 Beautification Project (April Yard Party)

Published on April 10, 2024 by corvettes

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 1^st 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

Published on April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 by corvettes

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

Published on April 3, 2024 by corvettes

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.