Larry's Update

I want to start this blog with a very positive writing done by Ellen titled Volunteers $ Bartenders

Volunteers
Come close & listen here
Gather round have no fear
I would like to make it very clear
Volunteer's are always in high gear
No matter how it appears.
Paving out their own frontier.
Let's have some cheer,
For Post 593 volunteers
All of whom are sincere
And some even serve beer
Wishing all a happy New Year

BARTENDERS

A little poem for those that serve drinks
It isn't as easy as one would think
Lending an ear & always being nice
Watching out not giving too much advice
You can't be one that's been there, done it all.
You are there to encourage :so they won't fall.
Personalities & liquor often times don't match
Making everyone get along is the catch
Just when one gets the recipe of those fancy drinks
Here comes a new one : oops it came out pink
This one is catchy: I need to re-think
I like my job serving drinks at the bar.
Hoping the tips fill my jar
When the shift has been steady & the day is done
For a moment I feel wealthy, counting my ones


Now the nice things have been said, I would like to express my frustration about the operation of the post over the last several months. I started this Blog to let the members know what had happened during the previous week. I realize that some times I was late posting, only because I didn't have the time. Counting Legion, Aux. and SAL we have over 400 members and maybe a half dozen people do the work to keep the doors open. I realize our Commander has been sick and unable to fulfill his obligations to the post, which is more incentive for the rest of the membership to step up and volunteer to take up the slack. At the District 28th meeting in Hollister in Dec. we were only 60% in renewals,  WHY?  Another thing that really frustrates me of is the the flack that my bartenders are getting over checking members for their 2014 membership cards. ABC requires that anyone that is to be served at the bar will have a current card or we are in violation of our license.  To top it off-the Engineer that was hired to do the work on our retaining wall has been 3 months to do an 8 hour job and still, no report.  I will be calling him again on Monday giving him till Friday to submit a plan or I will be moving on{should have already done it}.
Now that I have that out of my system, I want to say  that we had a great Christmas  Dinner and a very nice New Year's party, no thanks to support from ALR or The AUX.  We did have a lot of participation from other Posts, I wish to thank them .  I hope that 2014 will be a better year.

The Q of hearts is now $3,400.00 as of this coming Friday night, January 10th.  The Jokers will be worth $75.00.