VFW AUXILLIARY RIDERS GROUP
Commander – Ken Vaughan President – Sheila Sweatland Director – Jim Young
Sr. Vice – Bill Katilus Sr. Vice – Roz Hontz Asst Director – Dale Cloutier
Jr. Vice – Dale Cloutier Jr. Vice – Tommy McCready Secretary – Martha Young
Quarter Master- Ken
Malone Treasurer
– Ann Marie Cloutier Treasurer
– Rene Van Mensel
Judge Advocate – Dan
Kowalewski Secretary – Valerie Stanton Sgt. at Arms – Ron Clemo
Chaplin – Dan Kowalewski Chaplin – Kathy Vaughan Road Captain – Ron Gardner
Post Adj – Mark Nelson Patriot Inst. – Kim Dawson Chaplin – Roger Carlton
Surgeon – Susan Putney Guard – Shawn Fairbanks
Service Officer – Mike
Radziewicz Conductress – Donna Mier
Officer of the Day– John
Mier 1st Yr. Trustee – Linda Behrendt
1st Yr. Trustee
– John Schifone 2ndYr. Trustee – Gene Cadden
2nd Yr. Trustee
– John Mier 3rd Yr.
Trustee – Betsy Mort
3rd Yr. Trustee
– Wayne Tuttle
House Committee Canteen
Manager Post Location
Chairman – Dale Cloutier Jackie Martin 9734 Dick Street
Hudson, FL. 34669
Members Kitchen Manager Hours
Dale Cloutier Danny Lewis Sal Sun
– Thurs: 11P – 11P Bill Katilus John
Gudavich Hours Fri – Sat: 11A – 1A
Ken Malone Mike Radziewicz Tue -Sat 4p-8p PHONE Ken Vaughan Sun - 4p-8p 727-697-1602
Commander’s
Message
Greetings
to You All,
I hope you are all doing well and enjoying
this great summer weather we have been having.
Our Quartermaster Ken Malone was successful
in solidifying a price with the contractor for redoing our parking lot. Work
will start on Monday, June 7 and they should be done by Wednesday, June 9. They
will be working on certain areas at a time, so the Post will be opennormal hours during the construction.
I hope you have all marked your calendars
for our Mortgage Burning party on June 12. There will be great music, food and
fun for all. Let’s celebrate!!
As many of you already know, my tenure as
your Commander ends on the 20th of this month. It has been an honor
and privilege to serve as your Commander for the past 2 years. During my tenure
I met a lot of great people and gained valuable information and insight as to
the workings of our Post and our VFW organization. My best experiences were
meeting and getting more acquainted with you the members of our Post and
working with an excellent team of Post, Auxiliary, Riders Group and Canteen
personnel.
I have so many people to thank for helping
me throughout my term as your Commander, but I want to give special thanks to
Ken Malone, Wayne Tuttle and Dale Cloutier who were instrumental in helping us
to be an All-State and All-American Post for these past 2 years.
As we go forward with our new Commander John
(Moose) Schifone, I know that with all of your continued support, he will make
our Post bigger and better than ever.
May you all have a great month of June and I
look forward to seeing and visiting with you at the post.
With
Respect To You All,
Kenny
Vaughan
Commander
VFW
Post 4412
Post
Website ---- VFW4412.org
Post
email --- Post4412@VFWFL.org
VFW Auxiliary
President’s Message
Hello
everyone,
I hope everyone is doing well and staying
healthy.
At our last meeting, we had the honor of
presenting a $500.00 scholarship to
Cadet
Briar Lee of the JROTC. He has graduated from Hudson High School and will
be
joining the Air Force.
On May 15 th the auxiliary hosted a USO show
featuring JJ Crum and the Almost
Andrew
Sisters. What a great time we all had. With the money we earned from
food,
raffles, and 50/50, we were able to present the Young Marines of The
Marine
Corp League with a $1000.00 donation to help with uniforms, boots and
other
miscellaneous items.
On June 12, the post will be hosting a
mortgage burning party. They are looking
for
volunteers to help with set up, side dishes, and clean up. Anyone interested in
volunteering,
there will be a sign-up sheet on the bathroom door by the pool
table.
As some of you already know, we keep track of your volunteer hours. When
you
reach 100 volunteer hours, the Auxiliary will pay for your Life Time
Membership.
If you are already a Life Time Member, you will receive $100.00.
There
is no time limit on this.
The Auxiliary meetings are held on the first
Wednesday of every month at
7:00pm.
Dinner and social hour starts at 6:00pm. Hope to see you all there!
I would like to thank all of you who have
volunteered your time, and those who
have
participated and supported our events. We couldn’t do what we do without
you!
Proudly
Serving our Veterans
Sheila
Sweatland
Auxiliary
President
Riders Group
Director’s Message
Our 9th Anniversary Charter Party
at the Post on May 22nd was a Great Time! A Great Big Thanks to all
that made it a success!
We are raffling off a Bond "Snake Slayer”
Derringer. We are only selling 250 tickets at $10 each. All proceeds are going
to K9 Partners for Patriots. The winner will be drawn on our July 3rd. See one of the Riders for your ticket!
I would like to introduce the new Director
of the Riders Group. Most of you already know him. It is Abe Munday! I am
excited about the future of the Riders Group with him at the helm! Please give
him the love and support you gave me!
On a personal note, it has been a privilege
to be the director for the last four years and I believe that it is the Best
Riders Group in existence! I will still be active with the group and help out
wherever I am needed! My Love for the VFW and the Riders is ongoing! I Love you
all!
What’s going on
this month:
Rider’s
Shotgun Bingo 1st & 3rd Friday
Rider’s
Members Dinner/Meeting on June 16th
Please
let me know if there is anything I can do for you!
Jim
"Living The Dream” Young
Rider’s
Group Director
727.243.2942
Facebook = VFW4412Riders
Post 4412 New
Members
Please
welcome the new members listed below to our family here at 4412. When you see
them please introduce yourself and help us to make them feel like this is their
home away from home.
New
Post Members:
Robert
Lee Hand Jr.
New
Auxiliary members:
Helen Fields
Bonnie Kowalewski
Mary McCorkle
Post
4412 Canteen Specials
Monday
11 p.m. to 7 p.m. Bloody Mary’s $3.00
11 p.m. to 7
p.m. Buy 1st drink and get second drink only free when
wearing Post 4412 apparel or pins
Tuesday
11 p.m. to 7 p.m. Well drinks $2.50
Wednesday
11 p.m. to 7 p.m. 16 oz. draft
beers $1.50
Thursday
11 p.m. to 7 p.m. Bucket of 5
Domestic Beers $10.00
Friday
11 p.m. to 7
p.m. Miller
Lite and Bud Lite bottles $2.50
Buy 1st drink and get second drink only free when
wearing Red Shirt
Post
4412 Bulletin Board
Saturday, June 12
Come join us at
our mortgage burning party to celebrate being a debt free post! There will be
food at 5 p.m. then outstanding music by the Straight Up Blues Band from 6 to
9. These are the guys we had at our New Years party and they had everyone up
and dancing. Come and help us celebrate!!!!
Saturday, July 3
Come join us for a
bang-up Independence Day Celebration from 1 to 5 p.m. We will have great food
and awesome music by the Straight Up Blues Band. There’s nowhere you’d rather be than right
here, so come have a great time with us!!!!!
VFW
Booster Club - In the Spotlight
VFW
Boosters voluntarily make donations. Donations can be in honor of or in memory
of a loved one. All donations are utilized to help outset expenses in
communications, newsletters, and other post needs.
Names
listed below are donors name, the month, and year they last donated. Suggested minimum donations are $10 yearly
but can be given in any amount. Thank you VFW Booster! Your donations are
deeply appreciated.
February 2021
Kathy
Vaughan in memory of Walter Hudnall
March 2021
Kurt
Kobel
Julie
Masterson in memory of Jose Morales
Peter
O’Connor in memory of Carla Malone
September 2020
Gene
and Nikki Cadden
Dale
and Ann Marie Cloutier in memory of AWS1 Johnathan R. Clement US Navy
Jim
(Road Dog) and Barb Faunce
Sandy
Gage in loving memory of John Gage Squad 51
Roz
Hontz in memory of Bill Hontz
Bill
Katilus and Laura Cody
Ken
Malone in memory of Carla Malone
Ken
Malone in memory of Kip Humphrey
Mark
Nelson
Curtis
and Georgia Martin in memory of Arthur E. Martin
John
and Donna Mier
Kenneth
and Kathy Vaughan
Dan
and Bonnie Kowalewski
John
and Donna Gudavich in loving memory of John’s brother Tom Gudavich
November 2020
Pete Morales in memory of his sister Carmen
