February Post Meeting
Public Safety Awards Presented
At the February Post meeting, we hosted our 2023-24 Public Safety & Education award winners. With us to receive their award certificates and be recognized were:
Shown In the photos, (from left) are Edmonds Police Corporal Aaron Greenmun, Police officer of the year; Jennifer Stollwerck is the EMT award winner; and Melissa Beard, Firefighter of the year. Our Teacher of the year is Ali Hammond.
Past Commander Carl Kurfess presented in the Public Safety category, with Don Stapleton doing the honors for our educator.
Congratulations and many thanks to these dedicated public servants! Our favorite portrait artist, Mike Reagan, presented all of the winners with portraits he drew for the occasion, shown below: (Thank you Michael!)
Minutes of February Post Meeting
Business Meeting Start@ 1835 hours
- Guests Terry Stinson, District I Commander and Doug White District 1, Inspector were introduced.
- The minutes from the January meeting were read and approved by the membership.
- The Quartermaster’s report was reviewed and approved.
- The following expenditures were approved by the membership:
$278.06 to Don Stapleton for Postage and Supplies.
$209.75 to Mike Reagan & Bob Little for food.
$ 500.00 to the Cascadia Pipe Band. - Increase the donation to the VFW National Home from $100.00/year to $500.00/ year.
- The next Buddy Poppy Post Funds collection event will be on May 24 & 25.
- May 4th is the VFW National Service Day. We will discuss what the Post can do at our next meeting.
- Post Raffle 2024. This year we will raffle an original signed portrait of Toby Keith. Tickets & Flyers are being printed.
- District I will be at a Lynnwood Job Fair the end of March. Our Post will participate using this event as a recruiting opportunity.