July 8th & 9th
The Auxiliary is asking for donated items for their upcoing Rummage Sale fundraiser in July. View Rummage Sale Flyer
Luncheon June 18
Pictures taken at the Veterans and Caregivers of Veterans Luncheon on Saturday, June 18, at Fred Hancock Post 19.
To see pictures Click Here
Café Vets
10:00AM to Noon
Next meeting July 21, 2022 (No Café Vets in December)
This is an informal time to meet and have fellowship with your fellow Legion members. Coffee and snacks. We meet the third Thursday of every month except December.
Photos from the June 16 Café Vets and June 14 regular Post 19 meeting. Click Here
Memorial Day 2022 – Post 19 Participation in Three Programs
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MEMORIAL DAY 2022
Our Post members and Auxiliary members participated in three Memorial Day activities this year. This is also the time of year when we distribute poppies. Attached is a picture of Kevin Rose, our Post Chaplain, wearing his Legion hat distributing poppies at Hing Hay Park in Seattle the day before Memorial Day during a special activity taking place. Also pictured is a Sea Chan one of our Post 19 members. (Click on the picture to enlarge)
COMMANDER’S CORNER
ADJUTANT’S DESK – James Wilhoit
2023 DUES RENEWAL- LAST CALL:
If you haven’t renewed yet, please do so, preferably online at legion.org. The newsletter’s been going out to members up to two years expired. I’ll purge the list prior to the July edition. Please get paid up if you want to stay on our distribution list.
Post 19 Honor Guard
American Legion Post 19 Legionnaires, the Post’s Tahoma National Cemetery Honor Guard is always in need of members who can spare a couple of Tuesdays each month to join us and remember our comrades. It is an honor to participate. If interested please contact fellow member Jerry Livingston
206-910-6449.
SCOUTING NEWS
Our Post sponsors four scouting units: Boy Scout Troop 498 (40 youths), Cub Scout Pack 468 (30 youths), and Venture Crew 498 (10 youths). The Venture group just started
in 2017 and is made up of both boys and girls, and they meet at the Post on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. If you’d like to get involved with the Scouts, contact Scouting Chair Tom
Mechler, 425-255-0922, Tmechler2@gmail.com
FOR INVALID VETERANS
The Post has Medical Support Equipment including Wheel Chairs, Walkers, Crutches and Shower Chairs. Any member can borrow any of these. items at no cost just by
contacting the Chaplain or the Adjutant and showing their Membership card at the time of pick up.