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umbrella. This includes the Sons, the Auxiliary and the Riders. For many years we have been the place where members of our organiza-tions and our community have had a place to go and we must assure that continues.

May God Bless You and Your families as well as members of all the services wherever they may be. All First Responders and members of our extended communities. May God bless this very special place by the name of the United States of America.

I am writing this article prior to the end of March, no state-ments may seem to fit the time frame of the article. By the time you get this copy of the Sound Off things may already have dramatically changed. February was an outstanding month and we were on our way to a very good year. March started off in the same manner. Then all hell broke loose in the form of a disease known as Coronavirus. Quarantining took place and all kinds of restrictions were ordered from every level of govern-ment and management. As a result we were directed by the Governor and the Department to close the post for 30 days. Evaluation of this order would be done at various times to determine

how long it would remain in force. The main and very negative effect this action is having on the Post other than a lack of meeting with your friends, having social events, sharing in our meals and programs is the LACK OF FUNDS NEEDED TO PAY CURRENT BILLS AND TO KEEP INCOME FLOWING INTO THE POST. Therefore it is important to make sure you have paid you current dues and if you are able to make a donation to American Legion Post 113, YOUR POST. We still have to provide services for our fellow veterans and their dependent families. There has never been a time like this and we all need to pull together. We must continue to seek out and enroll new members in all American Legion Post 113 organizations under our

A message from your Commander Leroy “Buster” Furman

House Manager– Tina Brown

I hope everyone is healthy

and in good spirits. We will

be updating the membership

on when we will be open

again. This inconvenience

will only last a short time.

Please stay safe and listen to

instructions on how to do so.

If you are on Constant

Contact, you will receive

notifications on the legion

reopening. We are resilient.

Most events will not be

canceled, just postponed.

Please be patient as we

readjust the schedule. You

mean a lot to us and we hope

to see you very soon.

R O T O N D A A M R I C A N L E G I O N P O S T 1 1 3

Sound Off April 2020

UPCOMING EVENTS

Post 113 Phone:

(941) 697-3616

__________________

American Legion Email

American

[email protected]

__________________

Constant Contact

Rita Ellis

[email protected]

_________________

Newsletter Editor

Emily Stefanik

[email protected]

Editors Notes

All articles are due by the

18th of each month.

Coming together is a

beginning. Keeping

together is progress.

Working together is

success.

Henry Ford

POST 113

BEAUTIFICATION

PROJECT

WANTED

Your ideas, suggestions, plans for

the outside of the building and

grounds. Leave your suggestions

with your name and contact

number to the Legion email to

the left.

ALL EVENTS ARE

POSTPONED.

PLEASE BE PATIENT AS

WE RESCHEDULE.

CHECK YOUR EMAIL

FOR CONSTANT

CONTACT INFO.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE

TO MAKE A

DONATION TO HELP

YOUR POST, PLEASE

SEND IT TO:

ROTONDA AMERICAN

LEGION POST 113

3436 INDIANA RD.

ROTONDA WEST, FL

33947

Since our last newsletter we glad to see Past Commander Bill Miller is out of Sarasota Hospital after successful heart surgery. We are saddened by the loss of his wife, Sandy. Please keep Bill in your prayers. With the pandemic affecting all our lives, now is a great time to remember your fellow veterans in prayer and to check on our friends. Do a Buddy Call and see how a fellow vet is doing.

Our At Ease Program for combat veterans is no longer meeting on the first Tuesday of each month, until further notice. Any combat veteran who would like to meet with another combat vet who is there to listen, please contact me and we will set up a time to meet. My phone number is 850-227-6552. My email is [email protected].

A message from your Chaplain– Phillip Kolbe

Legion Adjutant– Royce Tyler

Well spring is coming and it is time for the annual Election of Post Officers for the upcoming year.

Please see the sample ballot.

The Elections will be held at the Post 12:00 Noon until 7:00 PM April 21st 2020.

GOD BLESS OUR ARMED

FORCES AND ALL OF

OUR YOUNG TROOPS IN

HARMS WAY.

#BeTherecampaign

Many ways to find

help.

VeteransCrisisLine.net,

1-800-273-8255

press 1 for veterans

Or

Text to 838255—

24/7/365

LEGION FAMILY

DUES

Legionnaires $55

Sons of The American

Legion

$30

Auxiliary

New/Transfers $40

Renew $35

Legion Riders $20

Membership/Transfer

forms are located at the

bar.

ROTONDA AMERICAN LEGION POST 113 3436 INDIANA ROAD, ROTONDA WEST, FL 33947

Lord Tennyson: “Bible reading is an education in itself.”

You matter!

You are important!

Your presence on this

earth makes a

difference!

Sometimes the hardest

part of the journey is

believing you’re

worth the trip.

Glenn Beck

Article in this issue. If you

are not and would like to be,

please contact our webmaster

at

[email protected]

If you would like to make a

financial donation to help

your post, please send it to:

Rotonda American Legion

Post 113 S.A.L.

3436 Indiana Rd,

Rotonda West, FL 33947.

As we sit on the sidelines,

waiting for this issue to pass, I

hope everyone is heeding

the instructions to stay safe

and healthy. It is imperative

we do as instructed so we

won’t have to “sit out” any

longer than necessary and get

back to playing cards. If you

are a member on constant

contact, you will be notified

when the Post will reopen.

Please read our Commanders

Sons of the American Legion –Eric Stefanik Commander

At the March ALA Unit 113 general meeting we elected a nominating committee in preparation for our upcom-ing election of officers in May. The committee is: Elisabeth Patierno, Vickie Bundy and Mary Gleason. Instructions to the commit-tee is: to ask each officer if they would accept the nomination of their current position for the coming year (2020/2021). If the answer is no, ask the officer if there is another office they would like to be nominated for. Each member may only be nominated for one elected office. The same questions

are to be ask of committee chairmen; a committee chairman may hold more than one position since these are appointed not elected. If you are not contacted by a member of this committee and wish to be nominated for an office or a committee chairman position of Unit 113 please notify one of the 3 people on this committee. The committee will present a slate of nominees at the April meeting and nomina-tions will also be accepted from the floor. Elections will be held during the May meeting.

As you are all probably aware AL Post 113 will be closed for 30 days. I have been in contact with the District President, Theresa

Walls, on different ways to hold our nominations and elections if required without a physical meeting. The nomina-tions and elections made be held electronically (more information to follow on this subject - electronically). If you are not receiving emails through Constant Contact from the Unit, please give Rita Ellis (webmaster) an updated email address at [email protected].

Auxiliary President—Robbie Brown


Ways and Means Committee

Meeting is to be announced.

Auxiliary

General Membership

meeting is to be

announced.

SEE YOU AT THE POST!

(soon!) 1st Wednesday of Month

Aux. Ways & Means

3 PM

2nd Tuesday of Month

Legion Exec. Mtg 7pm

2nd Wednesday of Month

Aux. Gen. Meeting 7pm

2nd Thursday of Month

SONS Mtg. 5:30pm

3rd Tuesday of Month

Legion Gen. Mtg. 7pm

Auxiliary Event Ticket

Purchases: Sun. 6:30 pm—9 pm

Mon. 4 pm—8 pm

Tues. 10 am—3 pm

Thurs. 5 pm-9 pm

Sat. 6 pm—9 pm

What you do makes a

difference, and you have to

decide what kind of

difference you want to

make.

Jane Goodell

SONS OF THE AMERICAN

LEGION, ALWAYS THERE

TO LEND A HAND.

please give Rita Ellis

(webmaster) an

updated email address

at

[email protected]

SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT

1 Line Dancing

9:30

Lounge Cards

2pm

Aux. Ways and

Means Mtg 3pm

S.A.L. Card

game 6:30pm

2 Line Dancing

9:30am

Cornhole 7pm

3 Line Dancing

9:30am

FISH DINNER

5p-7p

Music 7pm

Monthly

Birthday Party

4 Breakfast 8am-noon Karaoke 6:30pm Al & Marilyn

5

Breakfast

8am-noon

Bingo 6:30 Food Available

6 Pasta Dinner 5-7pm Music 7pm

7

Aux. Penny

Bingo Noon

Duck Races

4pm-6pm

Euchre 7pm

8 Line Dancing

9:30

Lounge Card

game 2pm

S.A.L. Card

game 6:30pm

Aux. Gen.

Meeting 7pm

9

Line Dancing

9:30am

Cornhole 7pm

SONS Mtg

5:30pm

10

Line Dancing

9:30am

FISH DINNER

5p-7p

Music 7 pm

11

Breakfast

8am-noon

Karaoke

6:30pm

Al & Marilyn

12

Breakfast 8am-noon Bingo 6:30 Food Available


14 Aux. Penny Bingo Noon

Duck Races

4pm-6pm

Euchre 7pm

Legion Exec.

Comm. Mtg

7pm

15 16

Line Dancing

9:30am

Cornhole 7pm

17 Line Dancing

9:30am

FISH DINNER

5p-7p

Music 7pm


19

Breakfast 8am-noon Bingo 6:30 Food Available


21

Aux. Penny

Bingo Noon

Duck Races

4pm-6pm

Euchre 7pm

Legion

Gen.Mtg 7pm

22 Line Dancing

9:30

Lounge Cards

2pm

S.A.L. Card

game 6:30pm

Quarter Auction

6pm

23

Line Dancing

9:30am

Cornhole 7pm

24

Line Dancing

9:30am

FISH DINNER

5p-7p

Music 7pm


26


28 Aux. Penny

Bingo Noon

Duck Races

4pm-6pm

Euchre 7pm

29 30

941-697-3616 941-697-3616

LUNCH

SERVED

M/W/TH/F

11AM-2PM

www.alp113.com

Line Dancing

9:30

Lounge Cards

2pm

S.A.L. Card game

6:30pm

Breakfast

8am—Noon

Bingo 6:30pm

Food Available

SOUNDOFF BOOSTER

CLUB FORM

ONLY $5 per person,

per year

PLEASE PRINT NAME(S)

_______________________

_______________________

______________________

(in memory of)

_______________________

_______________________

#ppl______ X $5

$___________enclosed

Please make checks

payable to and mail your

check to:

Rotonda American

Legion Post 113

3436 Indiana Rd

Rotonda West, FL 33947

OR

you may leave it with the

bartender.

Let’s make our

goal of at least 15

names per month

by the end of

2020!

January 2020

John & Joanne Huff

Marsha Church

Knobby & Nancy

Tom & Gini Moore

Jackie in loving

memory of Denny

February 2020

Richard &

Marian Rice

March 2020

Paul Colicci

Joyce Sousa

Jim & Gail Daniel

Dave Allstaedt in

memory of Pat

Allstaedt

Candy Zahrias

Dody Hillman

Mike & Jane

Kenjorski

Richard Rice

LEGION BOOSTERS

April 2019

Michael Mansell

Candy Zaharias

Charles Miller

Earl Bretz

May 2019

Barney Jimerson &

Cherokee

Robert & Elisabeth

Patierno

Dody Hillman

Bob & Lois Krout

Bob Walker

Don & Beth Warling

Carlos & Lucille Alicia

Royce & Linda Tyler

June 2019

Taff & Viv Canada

Paul & Pat Callanan

July 2019

August 2019

September 2019

Paul & Elaine

Trites

Andy & Donna

Leonard

October 2019

Joan Olsen

Buster & Carlyon

Furman

November 2019

Virginia Morgan

Richard Rice

in Memory of

Marian Rice

MAKING

ROOM

FOR

YOUR

NAME

HERE!


December 2019

If you do not see your name,

or you haven’t updated your

Booster, please send it in

today.

ANOTHER BREAKFAST

COMING SOON!

Governor Disantis’ directive regarding the carona-virus has caused the closing of the post for at least a

month and possibly longer. As a result, the ball drop committee has decided to hold a raffle drawing

event at the post including door prizes and an auc-tion soon after we reopen.

We will draw the $2,000.00 winner and at least two $200.00 winners depending on final ticket sales.

We thank all who have sent in sponsorship money and members that have returned paid tickets. If you have not, please send them in along with your dona-

tion. The Ball Drop is one of the post’s most im-portant fundraisers.

Thank you for your understanding and please stay healthy and safe!

“IN THE KITCHEN”

Always OPEN to the Public

Taxes are included in meal price.

EVERY MONDAY 5-7 PM

A.U.C.E.SPAGHETTI DINNER

$8

MEATBALL

$1 each

INCLUDES:

Salad

Bread

Dessert

EVERY FRIDAY 5-7 PM

FISH FRY $12

Baked or Fried

SHRIMP PLATTER $15

INCLUDES:

Salad or Cole Slaw

Choice of Potato:

Mashed or French Fries

Bread

Alternate meal –Fried Chicken $12

LUNCH SERVED 11am-2pm

MON. WED. THURS. FRI

BAR MENU

5 pm-7 pm

From the bartender

Hot Pretzel Pizza Popcorn

Chips Ice Cream

SUNDAY /SATURDAY BREAKFAST

8 am– Noon

Your Servers and Bartenders are Volunteers. Please treat them with respect and tips are greatly appreciated.

Stop in the lounge for great music on Monday and

Friday Nights!

See Calendar for who‘s playing.

Please show your 2020 Membership

Card when ordering at the bar.

If you are not a member, please sign in.

Membership applications/transfers can

be found at the bar.

NEWLY RENOVATED!

HALL RENTAL INFORMATION

The Post Main Hall is available to rent for meetings

or special functions.

Contact the office for additional information

and rates at: (941) 697-3616

(The room seats 216 people and has a dance floor& stage)

Plan Your Next Event at YOUR American Legion

Post 113!!!

Always ready to serve our Veteran's, Active Military their families and guests.

Your AD here and on our AD TV! See bartender for info.

Just attach your business card(s) to your check and give it to the bartender.

SUPPORTERS

YOUR AD

HERE FOR

ONLY

$75 for 12

months!

American Legion Post 113

3436 Indiana Road

Rotonda West, FL 33947

Post 113 Officers

Commander Leroy Furman

1st Vice Commander Jerry Faught

2nd Vice Commander Bill Doody

3rd Vice Commander Rick Carlson

Chaplain Phillip Kolbe

Finance Officer Rick Ellis

Adjutant Royce Tyler

Historian Jackie Steinbacher

Judge Advocate Mike Ferron

Stg.-at Arms Mike Kenjorski

Service Officer Terrilynn Ratzel

Past Commander

House Manager Tina Brown

Members at Large Committee Andy Leonard

Mike Ratzel, Robert Patierno

Auxiliary Unit 113 Officers

President Robbie Brown

1st Vice President Helen Ferron

2nd Vice President Laura Wine

3rd Vice President Delores Howard

Secretary Gerri Genesse

Treasurer Judy Doody

Chaplain Dottie Thomas

Ass’t Chaplain Virginia Morgan

Historian Mary Gleason

Sgt.-at Arms Judy Gault

Ass’t Sgt.-at Arms Elisabeth Patierno

Members at Large

Roma Merrill Marge Feasel Marian Brumley

Sons of the American Legion Squadron Officers

Commander Eric Stefanik Finance Officer Joe Sgriccia Adjutant Mike Woodman Chaplain Dick Buszka Sgt. At Arms Doug Doble

1st Vice Commander Dave Eikenbury 2nd Vice Commander Dan Taylor Executive Committee Mike Fickies ,Ray Tafelski, Doug Doble

American Legion Riders Officers

Director Bill Vanderbilt Ass’t Director Jerry Faught

Sgt.-at Arms Rick Gornall Treasurer Jerry Faught

Secretary Tina Brown Chaplain Brian Armen

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