2024-2025

Sonya Sallee

673 W Sandpiper Avenue

Hermiston, OR 97838

541-701-0496

ortreasvfwa@gmail.com

SEPTEMBER

We have two auxiliaries that have made it to the 100% mark of a healthy auxiliary.  Two auxiliaries that all their members have paid for their 2025 dues and one of those auxiliaries have received $50.00 from the Department for being the first one.  When I go to the district meeting this month, I will be giving that Auxiliary President and her Treasurer a very nice set of bracelets that was made none other than Jimmi Blanchet and family from Aux. 922.  She did a very good job, and I hope that you all enjoy them.  Each time an auxiliary makes it to 100% they will get a set of bracelets, and they can be worn by the President and Treasurer during this year.  They will be given at District meetings or Mid-Winter or other events that we are all at. I have given them to the officers that are going to the district meetings so they can give them to you. There will be other challenges throughout the year to make it more competitive for the membership this year.

We have done the dues angels for many years, and it appears that a lot of the members like this program. You don’t just have to pay for members of your auxiliary, but you can pay money for other auxiliaries or just pay for members that are part of our at-large group.  There are a lot of people in the at-large group that are older and need help to pay their dues and we would be happy to help you with that. Then I will fill out one of my dues angel worksheets and put your name in the raffle at mid-winter and convention and you could win some of your money back.

We have quite a few auxiliaries that are extremely close to having 100% membership.  Many are closer than needing 8 and as few a 1 to get their membership to 100%.  At the present time our percentage for the department of Oregon is 85.43% and we need 654 members to be 100% this year so we need to start pressing the membership.

At the last Academy that I went to a treasurer asked the question of how to find the dues notice letters off of MALTA.  The way to make sure that your dues get out and back from the members fast is by having your dues notices out on the first week of July.  As soon as MALTA opens back up after the 4^th you need to get your letters and sent out.  By this time of the year, I am usually sending out my 2^nd dues notices to get the dues that haven’t been paid yet and that way they should be done early in the year.  If you haven’t sent out your notices, get them out as soon as possible.

I know that I have mentioned this before but when you send in applications for membership, especially if they are going to be sent in for National to process, please check the application carefully before you send them in.  If you send them in with a post member as the recruiter, they cannot be processed that way.  The recruiter must be a member of the auxiliary to get the credit and get the National awards.  So please put the post members’ name and number on the bottom of the application and the auxiliary will issue them an auxiliary pin and put a member of your auxiliary on the top of the application so that they can also receive an award. 

I know that many of you don’t realize this, but I have to scan the application to National, so they process them.  If you mark out things and write light, sometimes not everything comes out. Please check the application thoroughly before sending it to me, if there is a problem, it will take longer to process.  I got one not too long ago that didn’t have a CVV code for the credit card. So, I can’t do anything else with it until I get that information back from the treasurer. This delays getting our members in.