We have several events coming up that need your support. First is the St. Patrick’s Day Dinner on March 16. Help will be needed for the dinner as well as your patronage. Help is also needed on BINGO nights. Please try to show up at least one week of the month to help out our Bingo activities, which fund a lot of our charitable items. Also please note that the Post will be closed on Easter Sunday, March 31. We are also having a membership drive dinner on April 20. Bring in a new member, bring in someone to pay their dues or show up and pay your own dues, and you will get the $6.00 dinner for only $3.00. This is time to really go after getting members on the delinquency list to renew. We need a effort from the entire membership if we are to go “Over The Top”.
- - - Commander Bill Richards
P.E.P. — P.E.P. will be holding its’ annual meeting on March 20, 2002. At this meeting we will be electing the five members of the P.E.P. Board of Directors, and giving the reports from the outgoing Board on our activities for the past year. We will also be giving a Treasurer’s report. The P.E.P. meeting will be conducted after the Post meeting is completed. All Post members are members of P.E.P. and we ask that you attend this meeting.
- - - President David Voyles

Commander’s Corner

March - April 2002

THREE FIVE NINER NEWS

AMERICAN LEGION POST 359
4826 FREDERICK AVENUE
ST. JOSEPH, MO 64506 - 3244

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Schedule of Events

Mar. 2 — Monthly Breakfast, 7:30 - 10:30 AM, $4.25 per person, “all you can eat”
Dance to “Ranch Hands”, 8:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Mar. 6 — Regular Meeting, 7 PM
Mar. 9 — NO DANCE - ELK FOUNDATION BANQUET
Mar. 10 — 4th District Meeting, Post 287, Savannah, 1:30 PM
Mar. 16 — ST. PATRICK’S DAY DINNER, 2 — 6 PM, $6.50 per person
Dance to “Borderline”, 8:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Mar. 17 — ST. PATRICK’S DAY— CORNED BEEF SANDWICHES $3.00 FROM NOON — ????
Mar. 19 — Trip to Leavenworth VA Hospital
Mar. 20 — Regular Meeting, 7 PM; Auxiliary Meeting, 7 PM; Annual P.E.P. Meeting after Post Meeting
Mar. 23 — NO DANCE - CATTLEMAN’S ASSOCIATION BANQUET
Mar. 27 — S.A.L. Meeting, Post 359, 7:30 PM
Mar. 30 — Dance to “Down Yonder”, 8:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Mar. 31 — EASTER SUNDAY— POST CLOSED

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Schedule of Events

Apr. 3 — Regular Meeting, 7 PM
Apr. 6 — Monthly Breakfast, 7:30 - 10:30 AM, $4.25 per person, “all you can eat”
Dance to “Double Shot”, 8:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Apr. 13 — Dance to “Down Yonder”, 8:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Apr. 16 — Trip to Leavenworth VA Hospital
Apr. 17 — Regular Meeting, 7 PM; Auxiliary Meeting, 7 PM
Apr. 20 — MEMBERSHIP DRIVE STEAK DINNER, 5 - 7 PM,
BRING IN A NEW MEMBER / PAY YOUR BACK DUES /
BRING IN SOMEONE TO PAY THEIR DUES — GET A STEAK DINNER FOR $3.00
ALL OTHER STEAK DINNERS $6.00 PER PERSON
Dance to “Borderline”, 8:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Apr. 24 — S.A.L. Meeting, Post 359, 7:30 PM
Apr. 27 — Dance to “Cheap Guitars” 8:30 PM - 12:30 AM

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE ONE - Commander’s Comments, P.E.P.
PAGE TWO - March Calendar
PAGE THREE - April Calendar
PAGE FOUR - Auxiliary, S. A. L. and Officer Notes

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NON-PROFIT ORG
U. S. POSTAGE
PAID
ST. JOSEPH, MO.
PERMIT #34

AMERICAN LEGION PONY EXPRESS POST 359
COMMANDER BILL RICHARDS - 1st VICE COMMANDER TONY DRENNEN - 2nd VICE COMMANDER JOHN McKINNEY
ADJUTANT JEROME GOOLSBY - FINANCE OFFICER FRANK SCHAAG - SERGEANT-AT-ARMS BOBBY COX
CHAPLAIN JESSE OLVERA - HISTORIAN JAMES HALL - SERVICE OFFICER RALPH POWELL
IMM. PAST COMMANDER HERMAN SEUFERT
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - BOB BEAVER, BOBBY KNOWLES, WAYNE HECTOR, DARRELL COY
SONS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION PONY EXPRESS SQUADRON 359 AMERICAN LEGION UNIT 359
MICHAEL McCORD, COMMANDER MARIAN McCOLLUM, PRESIDENT
VISIT THE POST WEB SITE AT www.geocities.com/ponypost

$3600 BINGO
March 5, 12, 19, 26
Games begin at 6:30 PM
Bingo kitchen will open at 5 PM

KARAOKE
March 1, 2, 8, 15, 16, 22, 29
In the Club Room
Fun begins at 8 PM

$3600 BINGO
April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Games begin at 6:30 PM
Bingo kitchen will open at 5 PM

KARAOKE
April 5, 6, 12, 19, 26
In the Club Room
Fun begins at 8 PM

FROM THE 1st VICE COMMANDER - As of February 6, our membership stands at 1,354 which is 77 short of
going “Over The Top”. The delinquency lists are posted, so help out by contacting those people on it that you know and get them to renew or reinstate their membership. Also, you can bring a member to pay his dues or pay your own back dues at our membership dinner April 20 and get a steak dinner for $3.00. Come out and support your Post.
- - - 1st Vice Commander Tony Drennen

FROM THE ADJUTANT - This is the first issue of the newsletter printed in house on our own equipment. I hope you like this new format, and your suggestions are welcomed. Also - if you have not paid your 2002 membership dues, get them in fast, or this will be the last newsletter your receive until you renew your membership. Renew your membership now, or get someone off the delinquency lists to renew. We need your efforts to get us “Over the Top”.

FROM THE S.A.L. - Our next meetings will held at Post 359 on March 27, 7:30 PM, and April 24, 7:30 PM.

FROM THE AUXILIARY - Our next meetings will be March 20, 7 PM and April 17, 7 PM.

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