NEW HARTFORD POST 1376 THE AMERICAN LEGION

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1 NEW HARTFORD POST 1376 THE AMERICAN LEGION The AH1 Cobra Gunship The Snake 8616 Clinton St. New Hartford, NY (315) MAY NEWSLETTER 2018 Hours of Operation: Monday-Thursday 11:00 AM-11:00 PM Friday-Saturday 11:00 AM-12:00 AM Sunday 12:00 PM-11:00 PM DATES 1st-Easter 1st-Ladies Auxiliary Meeting-6:30 PM 1st-Taco Tuesday-Serving 4:00-8:00 PM 2nd-Executive Board Meeting-6:30 PM 2nd-SAL Meeting-7:00 PM 8th-Tuesday Night Dinner Serving 4:00 7:00 PM 13th-Sunday Morning Breakfast Serving 8:00 AM-11:30 AM 20th-Legion Rider s Meeting-12:15 PM 21st-Oneida County Legion Helmuth Ingalls Post 232-7:00 PM 15th-Taco Tuesday-Serving 4:00-8:00 PM 16th-Post Elections Polls 12:00 PM 16th-Post Membership Meeting-6:30 PM 17th-Post Color Guard Meeting-6:00 PM 19th-Karaoke Night-7:00-10:00 PM 28th-Memorial Day Post Service-12:00 PM Memorial Day Veteran s Memorial-3:00 PM New Hartford Memorial Day Parade-7:00 PM Every Thursday is Sammy s Night Serving 4:30-8:30 PM THE FRIENDLY POST Lunches Served Daily Monday-Friday 11:00 AM-2:00 PM Friday Night Fish Fry Served Weekly 4:00 PM-8:00 PM ******* PROUDLY SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS *******

2 COMMANDER S MESSAGE Well if April showers bring May flowers then we should be waist high in blossoms, that is if it ever gets warm enough to let them bloom. It s been a rough spring so far, weather wise, but things are moving along nicely here at the Post. Our last breakfast, despite the nastiest weather, was the best we had this year. The Friday Fish Fries are doing good as well as our daily lunches and the evening kitchen which includes " Sammy s Night" on Thursday evenings. Our next breakfast will be on Mothers Day, May 13 th.. Don t forget that on Wednesday May 16th we will be holding elections for our officers and Executive Committee. The slate has been set and the voting will be from 12:00 noon until 7:00 pm. The ballot you will be asked to consider is published later in this newsletter. I have decided to run another year as your Commander and I am running unopposed. I want to thank all of the officers for their support. Also remember that May 16th is the evening of our general membership meeting which now begins at 6:30 pm. This will be the last membership meeting until September and hopefully we will see some new faces. Finally, our Post Memorial Day Ceremony will be on the 28th of 12:00 Noon, weather permitting, out in front of our Post. Of course as we ve had to do more often lately, if the weather does not cooperate, we will have it inside. Following that we will have our ceremony at the New Hartford Veterans Memorial at 3:00 pm. Hope to see you there. Haven t received confirmations as of the time of this writing but I m sure our Color Guard will be attending ceremonies at Hughes and Myles schools and Sunset Woods on May 25th. Lastly, thank you all for all of your support this past year and hopefully we will continue to grow and improve. Invite a friend to become a Legionnaire. For the Good of the Legion, Rand Kennedy, Post Commander AUXILIARY NEWS The next meeting of the Auxiliary will be on Tuesday, May 1st starting at 6:30 PM. We are near the end of the 2018 membership drive. Ladies, in order to continue programs for our veterans and our community, we need your support. Please consider renewing your membership for 2018, if you haven t already done so. For those who have not paid their annual dues, please do so by the end of the month. We have 88% of our quota of 408 members. Help us achieve 100%. Dues $25.00 and can be sent to Janice Hurley, 1904 Redfield Ave, Utica or left in the Auxiliary mailbox in the Lounge area (right off the kitchen door). We are always looking for new members so please talk to your relatives and friends and have them join. We have activities throughout the year and always welcome new faces. Saturday, May 12th will be very busy for the Auxiliary. We have three major projects scheduled. We will hold a Chicken BBQ from 11:00 AM until sold out. Also we will hold a Food, Bottle & Can Drive along with planting flowers in front of the Legion. We can use a lot of help to make this a success, anyone interested in giving an hour or two of your time, call Joanne Details of all of the above can be found later in this Newsletter. Thank You. Elections are coming up at our May meeting. We are still in need of a 2nd Vice President. You may be nominated off the floor at our May meeting but you need to be there to accept the nomination, so please plan on attending our meeting if interested in being an officer in the Auxiliary. We provide a wonderful service to our Legion and the community. Ladies please let us know if any Auxiliary members are sick or in nursing homes. Please contact Mary with any information. The New Hartford Auxiliary Unit 1376 would like to welcome the following new member to our Unit. Please Welcome: Courtney Hertline Please pray for our service men and women and continue to support our veterans. Yours in Service, Joanne Fountain, President

3 SAL NEWS The next meeting of the Son s of Post 1376 will be held on Wednesday, May 2nd starting at 7:00 PM. If you are not sure you have paid your dues, just check your membership card, if it says 2018 on it you are paid. if not, your dues are due. Thank You. Dues are now $25.00 and can be mailed to: Bob Byrd, 4 Foxcroft Rd., New Hartford, NY or put them in the SAL mailbox at the Post. Checks for dues can be made payable to SAL Post PLEASE NOTE; If you pay by cash, ask for a receipt and make sure your name is on the envelope. Also, if your address has changed please let me know so we can be sure you will receive your newsletter. There has been a change in our scholarship program. The Sons will now award one Scholarship for $600 instead of two $250 Scholarships. The New Hartford Sons of the American Legion regret to report the passing of one of our members, JOHN EMERY, Rest in Peace. We thank all our members for their support of our Post, State and our Veterans. Robert Byrd, Adjutant The Ostrich cannot fly, but it can outrun a racehorse. Please be aware that the start time for our monthly Membership Meeting that are held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, September through May, will be 6:30 PM instead of 7:00 PM as in the past. New Hartford American Legion Post 1376 THIS DATE IN MILITARY HISTORY On February 17, 1944, during World War II, U.S. forces invaded Eniwetok Atoll, encountering little initial resistance from Imperial Japanese troops. (The Americans secured the atoll less than a week later.) To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. JEAN BAPTISTE MASSILLON French clergyman ( ) Karaoke Night for May will be held on May 19th from 7:00-10:00 PM. Please plan on joining us for an evening of fun. New Hartford American Legion Post 1376 The Ladies Auxiliary will sponsor a Chicken Barbecue on May 12th from 11:00 AM until sold out. It will be held in the Post parking lot and will be Take Out Only! The Menu will be: 1/2 Chicken, Salt Potatoes, Coleslaw & Roll Donation: $10.00

4 Pictured above is the cover of Samuel Mastrogiacomo s Autobiography: FOR GOD AND COUNTRY IN THAT ORDER This is a true story of a young flyer who flew with the 445th Bomb Group of the famous 8th Air Force as a tail gunner in a B-24 Liberator, during World War II. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross and The Air Medal w/ 5 Oak Leaf Cluster for having shot down five German enemy aircraft. His plane crashed landed and he was a POW and escaped out. FRED & SAM Back in March of this year I stopped by the New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport to see a display of vintage aircraft from World War II. I introduced myself to a World War II Veteran by the name of Sam Mastrogiacomo. Sam was giving a tour of a B-24 Liberator named The Witchcraft that was on display. As we talked he explained that this B-24 was one of the Bombers that he was assigned to during the war. Sam explained that The Witchcraft, which survived the war is the only B-24 left that is still airworthy. Sam s name is under the tail turret where Sam was a tail gunner. Also on display were a B-17 and a old B-25 Bomber along with a P-51 Mustang and Navy Hell Cat Dive Bomber. THE 445th BOMB GROUP The 445th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Tibenham, Norfolk in England. The crews' first mission was bombing U-boat installations at Kiel on 13 December The Group continued to hit strategic targets in Germany, including the aircraft components factory... On Sam s 13th and last Mission in February 1944: they were under fighter attack for 2 hours & 30 minutes. Of 25 B-24s over the target, 13 were shot down. The target was the Messerschmitt factory and it was 80% destroyed. Sam s plane was shot down on 9, April 1944 in their B-24 # named 'BTO' (Big Time Operator) by a German FW 190 Focke Wulf and landed in Sweden and was interned there. Sam and his crew were held for several months in Sweden, Sam and several others escaped after the D-Day Invasion. Although Sam never really pursued getting his Distinguished Flying Cross, he received an Air Medal for every plane he shot down. After five Air Medals he was entitled to The Distinguished Flying Cross. On October 4, 2003 Sam was presented his Distinguished Flying Cross by Brigadier General Christopher Joniec, Commander of the 514th Air Mobility Wing, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. The Witchcraft The B-24 Liberator SAM MASTROGIACOMO IN FULL KIT Fred Williams PC

5 New Hartford American Legion s Friday Night Dinners Featuring SCALLOPS CRAB CAKES FISH FRY HADDOCK PARMESAN Also Stuffed Haddock!! SCHRIMP BACON WRAPPED SCALLOPS The New Hartford American Legion will host our Sunday Morning Breakfast on May 13th from: 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM at the Post. The menu will be: Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, Sausage Hash, Sausage Gravy, Home Fries Pancakes, French Toast Toast, Coffee, Tea, Orange Juice Fruit Cocktail Donation: Adults: $10.00 Children 5-12: $5.00 Children under 5-Free & New England Clam Chowder Also Try Our Mouth Watering Prime Rib!! ***MAY S*** **TUESDAY NIGHT DINNER** COVERED ROAST BEEF Mashed Potatoes, Dressing, Gravy& Vegetable Salad, Rolls, Coffee & Tea Tuesday, May 8, 2018 Serving from 4:00 7:00 pm Donation $11.00 Inside Dining & Take Out Available Call (315) or Visit com All Dinners Served with: Fresh Garden Salad Fresh Bread Coffee & Tea Serving 4:00 8:00 PM All Are Welcome!! 8616 Clinton St. New Hartford, NY Visit Get Well Soon We would like to extend our Very Best Wishes to our Post Steward, Joan Bongiorno who is recuperating from a serious leg injury. Joanie has been with us for well over twenty years and has done a great job with the responsibilities of Post Steward. Hopefully Joanie is doing much better and will be back with us very soon. The New Hartford American Legion

6 Pine Hills Golf Course 247 Jones Rd. Frankfort, NY Every Thursday SERVING 4:30-8:30 PM Our Post Caterer, Sam Tantillo will be serving a special menu for Thursday Nights. Stop in and enjoy the items featured below: Fried Bologna Sandwich/ with Long Hots Kielbasa Sandwich Prime Rib Steak Wings (10) Sandwich French Dip Sandwich The cost is $70.00 per player. You may pay at the Bar or contact the Legion (315) , a sign-up sheet will be available at the Bar. Hole Sponsorship is $ per hole. Refreshments will be served on the course and a luncheon will be served after, with the winners announced and prizes awarded. Pasta Fagioli Salt Potatoes S L CO EL A H 2T TS F SO HA 2 TA RD CO SH S EL L New Hartford American Legion Benefit Golf Tournament 1 QUESADILLA (8 PIECES) 2 EMPANADAS SPANISH RICE All meals served with fresh Pico de Gallo & Sour Cream The New Hartford American Legion will host a Benefit Golf Tournament on May Pine Hills MAY 1st & MAY 15th Golf Course in Frankfort. Serving 4:00-8:00 PM All proceeds will go towards helping to defray some of the cost of our new LED Outdoor Sign to be We plan on having TACO TUESDAY on the 1st erected in front of our Post. & 3rd Tuesday of each month. You can choose from THE SCHEDULE the delicious items pictured above. 9:00 AM-Registration with Stop in and give us a try. You won t be disapskins & 50/50 Tickets Available pointed. 10 :00 AM-Shotgun Start Refreshments Served on the Course New Hartford American Legion Captain & Crew Format Luncheon Served after in the Club House

7 LEGION RIDERS REPORT The next meeting of the Riders will be held on May 20, :15 PM at the Post Please note, my personal has changed from: tim@sunyit.edu to tpc9178@yahoo.com. Also, keep in mind that nominations for office took place at our April 15th meeting and elections and installations will be held in May. (After the May meeting we will hold our first ride so shine up your wheels and be ready to roll). (Results will be announced in the June newsletter.) The following is a list of ALR offices... President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary Sgt-at-Arms, Historian If needed, elections will be held on the Legion's election day on May 16th and is open to Riders in good standing. (Please bring your ID cards.) Installation will occur on May 20th at our monthly meeting. Of course, routine ALR business will be covered at these meetings also. Upcoming events include a May ride for the DAV fund, (Disabled American Veteran s), a Vietnam Run in June and many, many more throughout the year. Much thanks goes out again to the Sons of the American Legion who have contributed and added to our donations for all of these causes throughout the 2018 season. Congrats to Mark Grube who won the raffle for the ALR TV; many thanks to Bob Hobin and Dave Schroeder for a fine job with the raffle. Riders/Supporters: The 2018 membership dues are now due; please make your check out to the American Legion Riders Post #1376 or drop off your dues of $12.00 in an envelope in our mailbox with your name on it and address it to Tom Liesch. Your2018 ALR ID cards and receipt will be returned to you. Please visit our face-book site or browse the website: or Ride to Live - Live to Ride! For the Good of the Legion, Tim Converse, President COLOR GUARD REPORT The next meeting of the Color Guard will be held on Thursday, May 17th starting at 6:00 PM. If there are any changes you will be notified by Janice Hurley. At this time we have taken part in 58 Functions with 465 hours of service. As always we are very proud of this. As always we would welcome any new members who may be interested in joining our Color Guard. Membership is open to any member in good standing in the Legion, Auxiliary or the Sons. If interested in joining please see any member of our Guard. All of our events are under the direction of Capt. Nelson Pohoreskey, Rd. Cdr. Larry Winfield, Lt. Duane Clark. Donald Wisnoski, Historian POST LOTTERY REPORT MARCH 2018 LOTTERY NUMBERS DATE/NUMBER 1/702 2/Post Closed 3/499 4/684 5/709 6/107 7/523 8/691 9/081 10/966 11/006 12/207 13/ /749 16/022 17/394 18/116 19/727 20/817 21/773 22/710 23/212 24/381 25/664 26/538 27/881 28/052 29/858 30/405 31/592 Disclaimer: Every effort is made to accurately report these numbers. The official numbers are those recorded on the Post Lottery Payment Log Book by the Fund Raiser Chairman. The Post will not be responsible for typos in the newsletter. Terry Johnson PC, Lottery Chairman

8 MONTHLY HUMOR TODAY S SHORT READING FROM THE BIBLE... From Genesis: "And God promised wives that good and obedient men would be found in all corners of the earth." Then He made the earth round...and He laughed and laughed and laughed! BOY SCOUT REPORT As was reported in last month s Newsletter Nate Berntson and Liam Evans had earned the rank of Eagle Scout in a presentation at Danielle s Restaurant in New Hartford on March 24th. Nate and Liam were our 67th & 68th Eagle Scouts. Another Eagle ceremony was held on April 14th at the St. Thomas Church parish center for our 69th Eagle Scout, Kyle Grover. Congratulations, Kyle. Yours in Scouting, Rick Watkajtys, Post Scout Chairman & A Bottle and Can Drive along with a Food Drive sponsored by our Auxiliary Unit 1376, will be held on Saturday, May 12th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm in the Post parking lot. Please rinse out bottles and cans. Don t forget that water bottles can now be redeemed! Also we will accept all non-perishable food items. These may be brought up to the Legion early and left in a box inside the Post. All donations will benefit the Feed the Vets Organization. We Thank You in advance for your support. Any help we can get will be deeply appreciated. If interested in volunteering some time please call Joanne (315) New LED Sign Up Date On May 28, 2018, Memorial Day, we will dedicate our new LED Out Door Sign along with our Memorial Day Service. We will continue to accept donations until Memorial Day. Again, a Big Thank You to all who have donated! New Hartford American Legion On Saturday, May 12th we will plant flowers in front of our Post as we have done in the past. We need help with this project and if you can spare some time on May 12th please give Joanne Fountain a (315) We would like to express our sincere appreciation to Dave Excell Sr. for the most generous donation of a new freezer for our upstairs kitchen. Dave made this donation in memory of his wife, Judy. Dave has served in various capacities as an officer on the Executive Board of our Post and is currently an Executive Committeeman. Dave also serves as the Assistant Service Officer for the Oneida County American Legion. Again, Dave, Thank You. Sincerely, The New Hartford American Legion

9 QUEEN OF HEARTS UPDATE The search for the next Queen of Hearts will start back up on September 5, Rules governing the Queen will be published in the September 2018 Newsletter. Bill Brucato, Manager This will be the Ballot for this years Election. For the Office of: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEMAN (Vote For Four (4) or Less) (Please Circle your Choices) BOB ROTHDIENER HARRY HERTLINE FRED WILLIAMS PC TOM STOIO BOB HOBIN RON MAYER PLEASE NOTE: The members present at the April 17, 2013 membership meeting, in which a quorum was present, voted to accept any ballot that was filled out by the instructions listed on the ballot above. Example: If they were supposed to vote for 2, and only voted for 1, THE BALLOT WILL BE COUNTED. If they voted for more than the number as instructed on the ballot, Example: They voted for 3, when the ballot called for 2 THE BALLOT WILL BE DISCARDED FOR THAT SECTION OF VOTE ONLY. Polls will open at 12:00 PM on May 16th and will close one half hour after the start of the General Membership Meeting that evening. You will need to show an up-to-date membership card, sign in and cast your vote. MEMBERSHIP REPORT Our next membership meetings will take place on Wednesday, May 16th starting at 6:30 PM. Please be reminded that Post Elections take place on May 16th with the Polls 12:00 PM. Please take the time to get up to the Post and VOTE!! You only need to show an up-to-date membership card, sign in and fill out your ballot. Results of the Elections will be announced at the end of our membership meeting. Please plan on attending our meeting and voice any concerns that you may have. As always, there will be refreshments served after the meeting. We currently have 694 members paid so far, which includes 28 new members. This gives us 90% of our quota of 770. NOTICE PLEASE READ!! "If you pay your Legion membership online, you will have to send the Post membership person proof that you paid your dues. There is a receipt at the bottom of your online confirmation to send to the Post. I cannot send your membership card until I receive this confirmation. Please send this in as soon as possible." This is a reminder that the 2018 Membership Cards will expire soon. Please renew your membership soon, as the new 2019 cards will be out in a few months. Our dues will remain at $ Please note that if you receive a renewal notice from National and you have paid your 2018 dues, just disregard the notice and throw it away. If you are not sure you have paid your dues, just check your membership card, if it says 2018 on it, you are paid. Thank You. New Hartford American Legion Post 1376 would like to welcome the following new member to our Post. Please welcome: Michael J. Kiefer. As always we truly appreciate your continued support of our Post and we look forward to your continued support in the future. Janet Keesler & Dick Fountain Post Membership Chairpersons

10 NEW HARTFORD AMERICAN LEGION POST 1376 Rand Kennedy, Legion Commander Joanne Fountain, Auxiliary President Don Wisnowski, SAL Commander Tim Converse, Riders President TAPS New Hartford American Legion Post 1376 regrets to report that the following members have left us: RONALD E. NUTTY Sr. RICHARD RICHMOND GRANT THEM ETERNAL REST O LORD