2025-2026

Sonya Sallee

673 W Sandpiper Avenue

Hermiston, OR 97838

Ph: 503-656-8088

Email: ortreasvfwa@gmail.com

AUGUST

Well, we have started a new year for the VFWA, and I am very happy to have a different job this year. I have done the Hospital chairman a few times before and I have liked it immensely. The big things that I am going to try to do with the help of the line officers and others are to get some more volunteers for our hospitals. The people in Roseburg are older and they need some help getting the stuff for the patients and spending their time there. We have not had a volunteer at White City for 2 years now and we need to get somebody in that area to help out with the hospital. I know that it is quite a drive, but I am planning on making some trips to The Dalles this year even though it is a three-hour drive round trip but I feel that we need people to show that we care about the veterans in the hospital and the homes.

I have a list of needs for White City, and I am going to check with the Cooties and see what they want to contribute and get some stuff down to White City. There is quite a list, but we have money that has been sent to us from the Auxiliaries and the money that the department has contributed and we should be able to meet a lot of the needs that they are asking for. Please remember to get in your $2.00/member by December 31^st this year.

We had our first Academy at Redmond last weekend and we had a nice crowd, and we talked about the Hospital program, and I gave out donation papers for all the hospitals. I also started my raffle for the money for the hospital with my Diamond Art. If you are unable to come to an academy, district meetings, Mid-Winter or Department convention please contact me, and I will send you some raffle tickets for the raffle. So far, I have two patriotic Diamond Art pictures that we are going to raffle off and I am going to try to get a couple more pictures done. But just call me at 541-656-8088 or email me at ortreasvfwa@gmail.com and I will get some tickets sent to you.

   Jesse Stober and the volunteers are going to have a gift give away like they did in May instead of waiting for Christmas at the Portland Veterans Hospital. It is going to happen on September 17,2025 at 9:00am at the hospital. Anyone near the area or can go and help would be appreciated as they almost didn’t have enough help last time. Any extra money that you want to donate to this program, please send them to the Department Treasurer so that it can be bookmarked for that program. Any help would be appreciated either monetarily or by going and helping. Please let Jesse know that you can come and help.