It’s hard to believe we are midway through the 2024-2025 Legion year!
Thank you to everyone who made it out to Osseo for our 10th District Christmas rally. Special thanks to the post for donating the hall rental and appetizer style spread. We hosted deputies and staff from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office for an informative presentation from their Community Outreach and Public Affairs (COPA) department as well as their Criminal Intelligence Division (CID). I’ve long thought veterans have a role in ensuring public safety by giving them our support.
I attended the Christmas party at Ogilvie, with Tess and Al Davis, for a huge holiday potluck. As I listened to their post meeting and the donations they made that night, I was reminded how important an American Legion post is, especially in a small community.
Shout out to all the posts that offered free Thanksgiving or Christmas meals. For my day job, I’m an assistant county veterans service officer focusing on homeless and justice involved veterans. I heard from veterans I’m helping that they went to American Legion posts for a hot meal. You embody our American Legion values with these actions. What you do really matters.
Have you seen our new department legislative grassroots action page? You can quickly and easily send an email to relevant state elected officials by clicking on any of the campaigns on the website. Visit https://mnlegion.org/action/.
Our district midwinter is at the Anoka post January 11. Don’t miss it!
Thank you for doing your part in the 10th District.
In Service
Kristy Janigo,10th District Commander, kristy.janigo@gmail.com
Keep processing your membership. The last membership report is still the December 18th report. See you all at Mid-Winter and hope there is a new report.
James Hultgren
Membership Director
Chaplain
Heaven Father
Well, we are into the new year and I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a good start to the new year. Our prayers go out to our service men and women who are keeping our country a great place live. Heavenly Father, we thank You for watching over our deployed military family.
Our Legion family has a lot of people who cannot celebrate the new year so please make a phone call or a visit will put a smile on someone’s face.
Lord, we ask that You would keep our police, first responders, and our firemen safe when they are in harm’s way we ask all of this in Jesus name Amen.
Walter Dixon
Chaplain
Hello SAL and Legion Family Members
Hope everyone had a great Holiday Season, now comes the cold weather. There is a lot coming up in the next month or 2. We have Mid-Winter on January 11th at Anoka. The Joint session starts at 0900 Hrs. Then our SAL meeting will be at 1300 Hrs. downstairs. Hope to see a lot of new Squadrons there. It’s a good time to meet and greet your fellow SAL Members. Any questions feel free to reach out to me.
Then on February 15th is the Sweetheart Rally in North Branch at Post 85. Social hour at 1100 hrs. Lunch at noon and a program to follow. Hope to see everyone there. Thank you the to Squadron 85 for hosting this for the 10th District.
There will be members from Soldiers 6 at Mid-Winter and the Sweetheart Rally. It will be good to get the word out for Soldiers 6. If anyone wants to donate to them that would be a good time to do so.
Let’s work on getting your Memberships turned in. If you need help with any Membership questions, please reach out and we will do our best to help you out. Try to keep warm and remember why we do what we do. It’s for the Veterans, their families and our community.
Tom Olson
10th District SAL Commander
God Bless our Troops and their Families
Personify 360 issues or comments, please contact Adjutant Paul Orson, paulorson@comcast.net, 612-325-2899.
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