Fred Hancock Auxiliary Unit No. 19
Our Purpose
In fulfillment of our Mission, the American Legion Auxiliary adheres to the following purposes:
- To support and advocate for veterans, active military and their families
- To support the initiatives and programs of The American Legion
- To foster patriotism and responsible citizenship
- To award scholarships and promote quality education and literacy
- To provide educational and leadership opportunities that uphold the ideals of freedom and democracy and encourage good citizenship and patriotism in government
- To increase our capacity to deliver our Mission by providing meaningful volunteer opportunities within our communities
- To empower our membership to achieve personal fulfillment through Service Not Self
December 2022 – Post 19 Auxiliary Meeting
Photos from Unit 19's "Sew & Chat" meeting dedicated to wrapping Christmas gifts for Fircrest School. CLICK HERE
Christine Gray-Scott , Unit 19 Auxiliary President
Hello and Happy New 2023!
2022 was a fun and busy year for your Unit 19 Auxiliary. Here’s a partial recap of our 2022 Unit 19
activities:
Another successful *Annual Poppy Campaign (thank you again for helping us Post 19 Veterans), *Comfort Pup Donations to the City of
Renton First Responders, also for Veteran’s children at Compass House, for children in the Homeless Shelter R.E.A.C.H., and to comfort the elderly in both Retsil and Orting Washington Soldiers Home,
*a fantastic Rummage Sale (thank you to all of you that donated items), *a super fun Oktoberfest, thanks for attending, *a successful Winter Shoe and Clothing Drive that included a delivery of 73
pairs of winter hardy shoes to the V.A. Medical Center (again thanks to all who contributed clothing to donate), *a bevy of our usual charitable monetary donationswhich included some *new donations
to Wounded Warrior Project, The Hitching Rail, and American Bible Society’s Bibles For Troops, *our annual giving of
individualized wrapped gifts to people living with developmental handicaps at *Fircrest School Residential Center, plus *serving a whole lot of snacks at American Legion Meetings and Café Vets! A
busy year! And we want to tell you about some repeat and new activities coming up this year in 2023. We will be having another Rummage Sale July 28 & 29" so if you got some new gifts and want to
get rid of the old, *we need your donations and we are collecting items now. And we have some exciting news to tell you. Unit 19 is teaming up with the Post 19 Sponsored Scout Troops to do some fun,
nice things for you Veterans. First, Unit 19 Auxiliary has invited the Scouts to attend and participate in 2 Post 19 activities. So, on February 23" Americanism Night, and March 23" Law and
Order Night (both Thurs. evenings), the Scouts are attending and participating by performing the Flag Ceremony for you at each of these Post 19 activities. So please come to Post 19 on Americanism
and Law and Order Night and support the Scouts! Secondly, on Saturday March 11" the Auxiliary and Scouts are teaming up to do a joint Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser! All Veterans eat for free! Others
such as family members, friends, etc. will pay $7 for a delicious full breakfast cooked for you by the Scouts! We will have more information Coming soon, but please *Save The Date March 11“ Pancake
Breakfast. We look forward to another fun year of serving you Post 19 Veterans!
May God Bless you with a new, happy and healthy year.
For Unit 19 Auxiliary,
President Christine Gray-Scot
Past Report
It’s almost Fall Y’all! Wow, Summer flew by and your Unit 19 Auxiliary is busy getting ready for the new Season’s Activities. A quick
recap of our main summer event, the Auxiliary Rummage Sale held July 8th and 9th at Post 19, was a huge success! We really can not thank you enough for your multiple generous donations of sellable
items for the Sale, for shopping at the sale, and for helping us advertise, set up, and clean up, it couldn’t have happened without your help. And a special ‘thanks again’ to Bryan Harper, Kevin
Rose, Kyle Green and Sara Rowan for help- ing us with trucks, lifting, and hauling! And I do need to mention how extremely grateful we are for a very large do- nation of items from Audiobook
Ministries as they downsized from one office to a smaller one. If you know of someone blind, visually impaired, or unable to read due to a handicap, Audiobook Ministries offers inspirational books
and current magazines recorded for listening, they have over 3,000 titles recorded and their services are free. Audiobook Ministries is a local Seattle based non-profit Christian Ministry and can be
reached at www.audiobookministries.org. They are in fact looking for another free or low rent space for their office if you know of a church or similar office space for them. Hmmm.... let’s see, and
now the question remains, are we having another Rummage Sale again next summer? Stay tuned for further information! I would also like to mention here that despite the Covid challenges, our 2022 Poppy
campaign was very well received and it was touching to see our Post, Auxiliary, and the Public’s dedication and support of the important message and effort, thank you. A special ‘shout out’ to Dunn
Lumber for their generous Poppy Fund donation (please remember Dunn Lumber for your building needs) and also to QFC Renton Highlands longtime Manager ‘Pete’ for once again allowing the Auxiliary to
set up and pass Poppies outside that store. And now we move on to planning our next major Unit 19 Auxiliary Event, The 2nd Annual Rhonda Jarvis Memorial Oktoberfest! That’s right, we had so much fun
last year, and we hear you did too, that we are going to do it again!! This year to be held October 27th Noon-3pm at Post 19! We are bringing back our musical entertainment by Bonnie Birch a longtime
N.W. favorite. Bonnie and her trio of musicians have preformed all over the Northwest at festivals, weddings, and parties etc. Bonnie is a virtuoso Accordionist with many, many years’ experience and
this year she brings with her a multitalented German Singing Guitarist, and of course what would Oktoberfest music be without her professional Tuba player! So fun! We have some new surprises this
year like our beautiful Silent Auction Baskets . These gift baskets are stuffed full of great items and would be excellent to give as Christmas or birthday gifts, so come ready to bid! We will also
have raffle tickets for purchase to win several other items. All the delicious German Food Buffet ( including bratwurst, salads, and desserts ) are free, and so is a door prize raffle ticket for each
attendee, for your pick of some nice prizes. Unit 19 Auxiliary wants to treat our whole District Veterans, their Families, and our fellow Auxiliary Members to a wonderful (or should I say Wunderbar
), fun party experience, that is our goal! So mark your calendars, we will need to RSVP so we know how many brats and strudels to cook! Some may be wondering about the name of this event and why
Oktoberfest? For those of you that don’t know, Rhonda Jarvis American Legion Auxiliary Unit 19 Member and our Past President, was the daughter of our current Unit 19 Vice President Erika Tiede and
past Post 19 Legionnaire Milton Tiede. Rhonda was a bright light, full of enthusiasm and devoted to her role with our Unit 19. You did not have to know Rhonda very long before realizing this was a
sunny woman who loved to be social and have fun, she was also proud of her German American heritage, both Rhonda’s parents Erika and Milton being German Americans. So, when Rhonda passed, we thought
a very fitting way to memorialize her was to gather our American Legion and Auxiliary Family together and have some fun, thus Oktoberfest! We think fun loving Rhonda would like this. We know a lot of
Oktoberfest’s really emphasis the Beer aspect of the party, but not this one, although we do offer one free German beer per event attendee, we ask that if you want another beer you please bring a
designated driver, because we love our American Legion and Auxiliary family and want you to be safe. We will have a few more fun surprises happening at the Oktoberfest Luncheon Party too. So please
dust off your Lederhosen and Dirndl, practice your yodeling and polka boogie, and come enjoy the good food, great music and fun with us on October 27th Noon till 3pm! I do want to mention our new
list of Officer’s for Unit 19:
President and Chaplain : Christine Gray-Scott, Vice President: Erika Tiede, Secretary and Historian: Diana Hagen, Treasurer: Elva
Schulz, Sgt. at Arms: Evelyn Lundstrom Weiss. And this year we want to welcome new Unit Members: Janis Hyne, Evelyn’s twin sister Eleanor, and Sara Rowan now both a Post 19 and Unit 19 Member! We are
so happy to welcome these newest Unit 19 Members.
And on a special note: Dear Post 19 Veterans, we the Unit 19 Auxiliary exist to support you, that is one of , if not THE main focus
of our and ALL American Legion Auxiliaries, our Home Post Veterans. So how can we help? Do you have any ideas for how we can help the Post or even individual Post members? We do want to hear from
you! Maybe a pancake breakfast? Or hosting a Poker game? Do you like having snacks after the Post meetings, should we continue? Do you know of someone who needs a ride to Post meetings, or of
someone’s wife or family member who might like to join our Auxiliary but would need a ride to the meetings? Our Unit 19 loves having new Members!
We like to serve you Post 19 so please let us know how we can help, we will if we can.
You can email the auxiliary President at www.chrisgrayscott@gmail.com , or call and leave a message or text to 206 948-5839 . HAPPY
AUTUMN EVERYONE!!
Christine Gray-Scott , Unit 19 Auxiliary President
COME JOIN US for Sew and Chat
We need your company/help in these projects for our veterans in the VA Hospitals. We sew and tie lap robes, make ditty bags, stuff neck pillows, make wheel chair bags, wrap gifts and other things for the VA Hospital patients. It doesn't requre much talent or experience - just come and enjoy. We laugh and discuss the problems of the world. Men are welcome to come join us.
Only a FEW hours are needed and so MUCH can be accomplished!
Post 19 Building
3224 NE 12TH St
Renton, WA 98056
(425) 271-1439
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 503
Renton, WA 98057-0503
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