Author: ateeter

Commander’s Corner: December 2022

Seasons greetings comrades! As we embark on a very festive time of year, I want to quickly re-cap our Veterans Day festivities and preview events for December.


First off, thank you to Seattle Civic Band for playing beautiful patriotic tunes in honor of veterans Nov. 10. We had a couple post members show up to listen and after the concert one of them said more of us should have been there. Agreed! I’d love for us to better support the band when they’re HONORING US. The band also donated over $120 to our post relief fund. 


The Veterans Day mural painting was a great success. Our Market St-facing side of the building is now brightly painted. Thank you to Air Force veteran Chris Kent for the design and Urban ArtWorks for organizing and executing the event. A number of community members, including Mayor Harrell and Councilmember Dan Strauss, came out to paint. Thank you to our post and auxiliary members for their dedication that day as well. Also thank you to Comrades Curtis and Engler for going from the mural to Merrill Gardens on First Hill to support their Veterans Day event!


We also had a blood drive at the post on Veterans Day. All the appointments were filled and BloodWorks NW collected 30 units of blood! They will return to the post for another blood drive Jan. 19 so mark your calendars.


For our November social we ate a delectable Thanksgiving meal courtesy of Team Chef Kay and honored the service of our comrades by donning service items. Not everybody could wear something from their past but our Korean War veterans — Wally and Al — surprised us with photos and a beautifully preserved service jacket. This event was a prime example of our mission to build camaraderie and esprit-de-corps.


Looking forward to December, we have our holiday social on Dec. 15. The holiday social is a great opportunity to invite your family and friends to our post. We’ll have a visit from Santa and exchange gifts between adults. The food will be AMAZING and we’ll listen to our youth essay winners recite their essays. We’ll also continue our tradition of co-sponsoring a holiday toy drive with the Navigator Scouts. See details in this flyer. 


Don’t forget, the annual Wreaths Across America event will take place at Lakeview Cemetery Dec. 17 at 9 a.m. Our post color guard always does an outstanding rifle salute and they need volunteers to lay wreaths on veteran graves.


Lastly, this month you’ll be hearing from our leadership team. We’ll be calling everyone on our roster to do buddy checks, remind folks to apply for claims for toxic exposure, and extend invites to the holiday social. If you know of a comrade in distress, please let me know ASAP at [email protected]. As our VFW Commander-In-Chief Timothy Borland says, “Every Veteran Counts.” 


Yours in comradeship,
Aly Teeter

Veterans and Community Work Together to Paint Mural

It was a Veterans Day to remember for our post this year! Our friends at Urban ArtWorks and veteran artist Chris Kent — with the help of post and auxiliary members, community members, scouts, Mayor Harrell and CM Strauss — were able to bring our much anticipated “Service with Pride” mural to life! It was a fun experience for all participants and certainly fit the intent for the county’s VETS ENGAGED grant. Close to lunch time folks from Taco Loco generously dropped off three large trays of delicious food for our hard working volunteers. Thank you again to everyone who pitched in who were united in service and honor of veterans.

Here was the external coverage we received of the event:
Seattle Times
KCPQ 13
KOMO 4
My Ballard
National VFW
Mayor of Seattle

Commander’s Corner (November 2022)

In case you missed it, we held a successful — and joyful — Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser Oct. 22. More than 100 people came out to support our post and the Veterans Relief Fund. After 2+ years of not normal life, it makes you appreciate events like this that bring the community together to celebrate our mission and service. Special thanks to ALL our volunteers, which is a long list of dedicated comrades, family members and friends. We are so grateful!


Your efforts contributed to the post raising over $6,700, which is a new fundraising record! The money will be put to good use supporting our efforts to help local veterans. Thank you to all of our generous donors!


Looking forward, November is a big month for honoring veterans and their service. The post is going all in for Veterans Day with a number of opportunities to serve veterans, the community and enjoy camaraderie. If you haven’t come out for a Post 3063 event, this is a great time to join us. We need all of you to make our community stronger.


Yours in comradeship,
Aly Teeter

Sign Up to Help Paint Our New Mural!

The community has already started to sign up to help paint our new mural but we need more of our membership to pitch in! Go to this SignUp Genius link to put yourself down for a time to paint. It should be a great opportunity to connect with local artists, neighbors and our scouting troop who are giving time to our post to make our building more prominent to passers by. Questions? Contact [email protected].