{"id":44591,"date":"2014-04-29T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=44591"},"modified":"2014-04-29T09:45:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:45:12","slug":"am-legion-aux-to-honor-members-over-50-yrs-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=44591","title":{"rendered":"Am. Legion Aux. To Honor Members, Over 50 Yrs., Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/smallflag.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3175\" alt=\"smallflag\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/smallflag.gif\" width=\"68\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) On May 4<sup>th<\/sup> the American Legion Auxiliary in Jamestown will host a Tea, to commemorate members of the club that have served for 50 years or more.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2,auxiliary member, Delores Rath, said,<\/p>\n<p>all of these members will be honored during the event at the All Vets Club on Sunday, May 4<sup>th<\/sup>, beginning a 1-p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The guest speaker will be First Lady Betsy Dalrymple. She added that auxiliary members from around the region have been invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the show, long-time Auxiliary member Merna Ronholm, said there are currently 30 members in the region that have served with the American Legion Auxiliary with 50 years of service or more, six local member including Merna.<\/p>\n<p>She pointed out that the American Legion Auxiliary in Jamestown activities and service includes visiting nursing homes, providing cookies to patients waiting at the Jamestown V.A. Clinic, along with sponsorship of Girl\u2019s State, and the Poppy Distribution program.<\/p>\n<p>She added the poppies are put together by residents of the Veterans Home in Lisbon, with proceeds going to veterans programs.<\/p>\n<p>Merna added that the American Legion Auxiliary is the world\u2019s largest patriotic organization established in 1919, supporting the American Legion\u2019s service to veterans.<\/p>\n<p>She said to become a member of the auxiliary the individual must either be a veteran, or have an affiliation to a veteran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) On May 4th the American Legion Auxiliary in Jamestown will host a Tea, to commemorate members of the club that have served for 50 years or more. On Tuesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2,auxiliary member, Delores Rath, said, all of these members will be honored during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44595,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44591\/revisions\/44595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}