Wednesday, October 10, 2007

ALR-136 Newsletter - October 2007

New Members: W.C. Thurman, Ben Roloff. Welcome to ALR 136 your membership will never be taken for granted.

Mke Shock Thanked all the members for their support on the loss of Rita’s mother.

ALR SHED $1,500.00 budget has been spent on our new shed. More money is needed to finish. Motion to spend up to $500.00 was passed. Patriot Guard will give $750.00 towards this shed. Also Gene Hammitt and Wild bill each gave $100.00 towards shed project. Thanks to you both.

BackPatches: New design patches will be ordered when 5-6 sets of old ones are sold. Patriot Guard will take bottom patches and put on back of Road Guard vests.

Commanders Homecoming: 5th Dist Commander John Thomas, Pat Culver, And Stretch Strothman will be in attendance at this homecoming dinner this Sat. nite Oct 20th. Mike Shock will do POW-MIA ceremony. It all starts at 6pm. Call Nancy Johnson at 777-0700 for RSVP.

Halloween Party Post party will be Oct. 26th. We will be having our fabulous DJ’s entertain us while we dance the nite away in costume. Party starts at 7pm.

Oct. 21st We are having a tear down party. We will be pulling down suspended ceiling and all tiles in back dining room. Will start around 12:30pm. Please come down and help, the more people we have the less time it takes!

Board of Governors Two positions are open. Contact Post Commander if interested.

Guest: David Evans spoke about bringing The Moving Wall to Eldorado next year for Veterans Reunion. PG will donate $500.00 and ALR will donate $500.00.

Wild Bill Logan’s family is having a get-together at their house for a small group of people to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. On Dec 8th they will have Pizza and beer for all of us down at our Post to celebrate this occasion.

Toys for Tots Meeting This Wed at the Post at 7pm.

TOYS fOR TOTS PARTY Nov. 3rd. We will be having the PreToy Run part at our Post ALL DAY and INTO THE NITE!!!! Food FUN MUSIC and DANCING. Come on down and be a part of the fun. We are also looking for people to give us a hand with this project.

Andover Jr. High Doug Baber ALR 136 member is inviting us to stop by on Nov. 8th to meet the kids and let them talk to Veterans and check out the motorcycles .He would like to have people show up at 8:30am. More info will be sent on this.

Oaklawn Bomber Burger has made commitment to donate to the VA Xmas project.

Homecomings: This Friday our own member Tom Leahy will be having two of his sons coming back from Iraq. We will be going to the VFW in Derby to have a meal and then celebrate their return. We will meet there at 6:30pm. Also Ralph who plays music at VFW in Derby has a grandson who is coming home . So it will be a great nite to celebrate these fine gentlemen’s return!

P/Guard Terry Houck received an award from Natl. Patriot Guard. He thanked our membership and said award belonged to his wife Carol. He also spoke about all missions we had done and how everyone always does his or her part to make the missions a success. From the people who carry the flags to church to the people who hold on to those flags in line for long periods of time.

Doc Herndon Our ALR Chaplain presented Our Post with a beautiful hand made quilt with pictures from PG missions and a picture of DarkHorse, also a painting of The Wall and Reflection of two bikers from the past and present. These were purchased at McPherson ALR Auction this past Sat. Nite. Thanks Doc!

American Legion Children’s Home Stretch asked to pass the hat for money for presents for the kids down in Okla. Motion was made to give 200.00 Motion carried.

Bill Baber ALR 136 Charter Member is staying at Copperstone in Derby, room 107 stop in and see him when you can. They don’t make “em” like Billy anymore.

New Hats: Bronco got the ok to order hats from Yates Center. He will have them to sell at the next meeting. First come, first serve! $15.00 ea.

McConnell Kids day Oct 20th Meet at main gate at 11:30 . Leroy Perkins will be RC. We ware looking for 20-30 riders to stage a welcome home for bus load of kids who have parents that have gone overseas and come back. So these kids can see what we do when we welcome home their parents. Contact Leroy at Leroy.perkins@mcconnell.af.mil

Bricks are in: Terry said they have bricks in to be placed. Some of the orders where printed wrong so have to be redone. Terry is working hard to get everything correct.

Wichita Toy Run NOV 4th We will meet at the Post at 8am. Make sure to eat before coming. Do not know if dining room will be open yet. AIS for Wichita will be 10am

Road Cones were donated by ALR 136 member John DeArmond to P/Guard for blocking off road or parking stops. Thanks John!

Hotdogs ALR member Tony Wilson Donated 30lbs of dogs to Am. Legion Children’s home in our name last weekend and the another 20lbs to be used up front in our bar. Thanks Tony!

Post 401 dance. Nov. 3rd The Post is having a dance . They will be having a dance every Sat. nite until further notice.
Two-Wheel Tues.
  • Oct. 16th A.J.’s Sports Bar and Grill
    Oct. 23rd Connie’s Mexican Restaurant ( Groundpounder)
    Oct. 30th Tradewinds ( Boomer)
    Nov. 6th Magoo’s ( Gary Jones)