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During our Sept. 5 business meeting, we voted to adopt the VFW Post 3063 strategic plan. This plan is a roadmap that addresses our current challenges and sets clear goals for the future. The strategic plan outlines several key goals: increasing member participation, redeveloping our post into a central hub for veterans, ensuring financial accountability, and enhancing veteran recruitment and entitlement awareness.

Our newly formed Strategy Committee is working to implement these goals, especially membership participation. Thank you to everyone who has stepped up to volunteer their ideas and time to improve the health of our post.

Goal two is redeveloping our post and we recently hired a project manager (and Navy retiree), Brian Lauer. You may see him pop in for meetings or stop by the post during office hours since he's in the midst of the redevelopment discovery process. We're excited to work with him to help reach our goal of redeveloping into a central hub for veterans.

FYI: we're hosting a Halloween-themed concert fundraiser for our Post 3063 Relief Fund on Oct. 26. You can buy tickets now on Eventbrite. Thank you to Past Commander Joe Tiffany for organizing! 

Youth essays are due at the end of the month on Oct. 31. Please spread the word! Now is go time.

Lastly, mark your calendars for Nov. 11. We'll be hosting a Veterans Day Open House and lunch at the post. The flyer is included below.

If you want to get involved with any of these initiatives or events -- we can always use more help! -- please contact me at commander@vfwseattle.org or 206-701-9259.

In comradeship,
Aly Teeter, Commander

Get ready to show off your halo or horns at the Saints 'N' Sinners Costume Ball! Join us on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. at VFW Post 3063 for a thrilling night of music, dance, and spooky fun. Tickets are $20 (+fee) on Eventbrite or $25 at the door. Rock out to the tunes of three live bands—Left Turn on Blue, The Kings, and Wicked World—and hit the dance floor with beats from DJ Forrest Gump. Don't miss your chance to win big with our 50/50 raffle or strut your stuff in the costume contest to snag the Best Costume Prizes. All proceeds go to the VFW Post 3063 Veterans Relief Fund. It’s a night of fright and delight you won’t want to miss!

Please share the following info with your families and friends! Entries are due Oct. 31.

High school students can enter the Voice of Democracy contest. In this program you write your response to the question of the year, record your oration presenting those thoughts, then enter our contest to win cash prizes. Please submit entries at bit.ly/3WlZ2Sf. 

Middle school students can enter the Patriot’s Pen contest. This program is in the form of a written response to the question. It’s submitted to our post and winners progress up the ladder to big prizes. Please submit entries at bit.ly/3xMknLc. 

Elementary students in grades 3, 4 & 5 are encouraged to enter the special Youth Essay program run by the Washington Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars. This program is also a written response to the question of the year. Here’s the link to the rules and entry form.

On Sept. 15, post members presented the inaugural Ballard Eagleson VFW Post 3063 Freedom Scholarship to SGT Arleen Gonzalez from the Washington National Guard's 181st Brigade Support Battalion (Post 3063's adopted unit). She received $2,000 to use towards her pursuit of a college degree. Congratulations, Arleen! Also thank you to the 181 BSB leadership and soldiers who were present to recognize the momentous occasion.