Chapter Activities 2007

December 15, 2007

Christmas Food baskets

Saturday morning all met at Farmerboys Restaurant at 0700 prior to our Christmas food basket and toy delivery.  I wish to thank the Altrusa International, Akron Club for their outstanding participation and contribution in our food basket program this year, especially our Christmas program.  The members of the Akron Club took it upon themselves to ensure every child, where we delivered food for Christmas, received one Christmas gift properly wrapped and tagged.  This was a great help as some of the families had 5 or more children.  It is a pleasure to work with such a great organization.  To add even more, they gave a monetary contribution to the chapter which will go into the food basket fund.  All had a great time and you can see pictures in the 2007 photo album.

Chapter Spaghetti Dinner

On October 13th, 2007 We had our Spaghetti dinner in Norton.  A lot of food was served to a goodly number of people who attended.  Chapter members and spouses, along with some very good chapter friends, worked very hard to prepare and serve the food.  Grateful thanks to all who participated.

April 19, 2007

We presented Helen Stalher, a WAC Officer and Veteran of World War Two, an original artwork depicting WW2 by Ray Simon. The letter that accompanied the art work is shown below.

As time passes and we get caught up in the everyday bustle of life, we have a tendency to miss the important things in life.One of the most important of these is to honor and remember those who have gone before us and allowed us to do the things we needed to do.Daily now, we are losing many World War Two Veterans as they move on to the place we shall all go someday.Therefore it is so very important to gives thanks for them and to them for their service to our country.Because they served when called upon, we still speak English and enjoy our freedoms. Because of them, we were able to serve our country as Vietnam Veterans and make the way for our present day Warriors to carry the torch of freedom onward.So it is with the greatest of pleasures that I present this World War Two Artwork with the enclosed certificate of appreciation to Captain Helen Stahler in recognition of her service in the US Army during World War Two.Helen, you and all the others have set the example and the path for the rest of us to follow and words do not express our thanks and feelings.Thank you!

From the members of Vietnam Veterans

Of America, Chapter 900,

Akron, Ohio

Lee Fisher

Chapter President

Our food basket project.

Twice a year (Thanksgiving and Christmas) the chapter does our food basket program.  A list of needy Veteran Families is obtained from the Veterans Service Comission In Akron so that we have truly needy families to work with along with the pertinent information, such as number of children, ages, etc.  In this way we are able to tailor the baskets to each family as much as possible.  We usually get a list of 30 names or so, usually coming up with 20 to work with. The food baskets are not just for one meal, but will have several days of meals in them.  These past two years we have partnered with Altrusa International, Akron Club in our food basket project.  Altrusa is a womans organization that has fit in with our chapter extremely well.  We seem to have a lot of the same goals, community service, patriotism, doing what ever needs to be done to make a difference.  These past years the club made sure every child on the food basket list got a least one wrapped christmas present (furnished, wrapped and in some cases also delivered by their members along with us).  We are working on other projects also.

Here are some of the past food basket pictures: