SICK BAY REPORT

CONRAD ZECH PAST DISTRICT 9 COMMANDER AND SCOUT CHAIRMAN SUFFERED A STROKE MONDAY, JANUARY 25TH. HE IS IN ALLEN MEDICAL CENTER IN OBERLIN. UNABLE TO GIVE HIS NAME OR FEED HIMSELF BUT STILL HAS HIS MOTOR FACICITIES. WILL UP DATE AS INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.

Veterans Golf Classic

If you or your members are interested in a great golf tournament, this is the one for you. I hope you will broadcast my message throughout your Department and in your Department publications. This is about camaraderie, friendship and a good time playing golf.

Friends,
I invite you to join me in Myrtle Beach, SC this May for the Veterans Golf Classic. I have been competing in this event for many years and enjoy taking part with almost 500 Veterans from across the country each year. In addition to the 54-hole, two person team format, the tournament also features a CUP CHALLENGE that pits the VFW against the American Legion. The VFW reclaimed the CUP last year and need your help to secure it again in 2010. The dates run from May 23 – 26. Cost for three days of golf, prizes, welcome reception and awards dinner for you and a guest runs no higher than $250.
You can learn more by going to VeteransClassic.com

W. Benny Bachand
Adjutant/Quartermaster
Department of Florida

SICK BAY REPORT

PAST DISTRICT 5 COMMANDER JOE COLARUSSO came through his heart surgery fine. They replaced the Aortic valve and did a by-pass on both sides of his heart. He is at Ohio State's Ross Heart Hospital, OSU Medical Center, 410 W 10th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, Room 4036. He will be there for 5-7 days according to the Doctor this am. They had him sitting up in a chair today and will have him walking the halls tomorrow.

OTT SERVICES

VISITATION: Monday, January 11, 2010
TIME: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
LAVFW Services @ 7:30 PM
LOCATION: Heitger Funeral Home (across from St. Mary’s Catholic Church)
639 First Street NE
Massillon, Ohio 44646
330-833-3248

FUNERAL: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
TIME: 11 AM @ funeral home (1 hr. visitation before funeral)

BURIAL: Newman Creek Cemetery
immediately after funeral service @ funeral home

There will be a luncheon at the Canal Fulton VFW immediately following the burial. VFW Post #9795
257 N. Canal St.
Canal Fulton, Ohio 44614
330-854-9994

Go to www.heitger.com for directions to the funeral home.

JoAnne Ott

Past National President JoAnne M. Ott of North Lawrence, Ohio passed away Thursday, January 7, 2010.

JoAnne's bio will be posted on the Department of Ohio Ladies Auxiliary Web Site which can be linked from the Departments web site www.ohiovfw.org.

Funeral arrangements not available at this time.

Word to the Wise

From Steve Van Buskirk at National Headquarters:
We have recently been advised that an IRS agent, in connection with an audit, requested that a Post provide specific information on each community activity or patriotic event it conducted or sponsored, including specific information concerning expenditures made in connection with those activities or events. The Post had not adequately documented those activities and events and had failed to keep copies of the Community Service, Americanism and Youth Project reports submitted to the Department nor prepare a Community Service Book. The Post is now scrambling to come up with evidence that substantiates entries on their 990 and, ultimately, substantiates the Post’s entitlement to its tax exemption.
Hopefully that Post will be able to work around its problems, but it serves to remind everyone of the need to maintain records that prove it engages in exempt purpose activities and is entitled to exempt tax status. Well kept Community Service, Americanism and Youth Activity records will go a long way in that regard.

MW TIDBITS

We have the new "Ohio VFW Member" decals and will be on sale at the Department office on the meeting level of the Mid Winter Conference. The price is $3.00 each. (see December blog to view decals).

Do not forget the PARADE OF CHECKS on Friday, January 22 at 1 pm main meeting room. Also the Ladies cancer auction at 7 pm Friday, January 22 same place.

Attorney General Richard Cordray will address the body on Friday, January 22 at 9:30 am in the main meeting room.

100% post commanders and membership chairman can pick up their 100% shirts at the Department MW Office.

Cancer Pins can also be picked up at the Department MW Office.

SICK BAY REPORT

WAYNE CRANE is at home recovering from complications resulting from 4 way by-pass surgery December 9, 2009. Wayne will not be able to attend the Mid-Winter Conference on doctors advice.

PDC RON HOOK is at home convalescing.

PROGRAM COORDINATOR ROY TENHUNDFELD has been under going tests for undetermined medical problems.