Post membership enjoyed good food, fun games and comradeship at the annual post picnic at the Seelig’s Aug. 7, 2021. Thank you to everyone who organized and participated!
Category: Event
Chef Kay’s Crew Prepares Record Number of Social Meals
Chef Kay and her dedicated crew of chefs, takeout preparers and food deliverers fed a record 85 people for November and then another record 102 people for December. All meals are takeout style, for donation only, and so delicious!
It’s an amazing treat to eat a Chef Kay meal each month and our post is so appreciative of Kay and her crew’s efforts.
Thank you to Comrade Marleen Madding for taking the behind-the-scenes photos!
Compliments to the Chef!
Chef Kay and her team of volunteers served up another amazing Thanksgiving meal to post members, families and friends Nov. 19. The meal was served takeout style, which Post 3063 has been doing since the start of the pandemic. As Kay noted on her handout menu, in 2020, we still feast!
Past Commander Oscar Borchelt Turns 100
By Harold Rodenberger
Our post helped Past Commander Borchelt celebrate his 100th birthday on Nov. 19, 2020. Because of the pandemic, we were unable to visit Oscar to celebrate in person, but we sent a red, white and blue flower arrangement and wished him well.
Oscar said to thank everyone in the post for remembering his big birthday. His grandson, who took the photo, said Oscar was ecstatic that we remembered him and to receive the flowers.
Comrade Borchelt was our post commander for seven years, from 1991-1998, and was active in our post until the past few years when advancing age and retreating eyesight restricted his driving. He lives at his home in Maple Valley where he sometimes (during warm weather) still works in his yard.
Congratulations, Oscar, on your 100th birthday and may you celebrate many more!
Commanders Corner and Auction Recap (October 2020)
Well Done Comrades!
The raffle that wasn’t – actually was pretty much of a successful Owl!
It was obvious to the fundraising committee that this year our usual sit down Spaghetti Dinner and Raffle was not going to happen due to the restrictions and limitations of Covid-19… and so, the raffle would not happen either.
It began to look like we would just have to make do with the Spaghetti dinner ala take out that Chef Kay Seelig has perfected, and that would be it for this year.
But wait a minute… Comrade Aly Teeter to the rescue! She introduced the committee to the “Bidding Owl” – an online auction she had recently been involved with for a different concern. Maybe the raffle could be replaced by the Bidding Owl!
And so it was….
With a lot of work primarily on the shoulders of Comrade Aly who set it up, and Comrade Harold Rodenberger who implemented the Bidding Owl, we had an online Auction that became, “The raffle that wasn’t.”
Comrade Harold will be submitting all the financial particulars that will be showing that in spite of Covid (or maybe because of Covid) this year’s fundraising effort was very much a success!
Certainly there are many people who contributed in various ways with the fundraiser effort, and without them it would not have happened, but I do want to recognize these people in particular who really stepped up for us to help make this year’s fundraiser a success.
· Comrade Aly’s family who provided the main “Hot Ticket” item for the raffle.
· Richard and Pat Murray for their continuing support of all our post activities.
· The Burien Highline Kiwanis Club who provided the five gift baskets totaling over $500 in value, and another $300 in dinner tickets that were gifted right back to the Post!
I will speak to all of this again later, but for now I just want to thank these people and all of you for your contribution to this year’s fundraiser effort!
Joe Fitzgerald
Post 3063 Commander