2025-2026

Sonya Sallee

673 W Sandpiper Avenue

Hermiston, OR 97838

Ph: 503-656-8088

Email: ortreasvfwa@gmail.com

MARCH

Well, it’s getting close to the end of the year, and the end of the year reports needs to be in soon. I have been getting many reports from many of the auxiliaries of all the activities that they have done with the hospitals and Nursing Homes in our department. Remember you don’t have to just count your hours that you are in the VA hospitals and nursing homes, you can also put the hours and mileage to the nursing homes in your area. Any time you visit your members in the nursing home you can put down the hours.

I have heard from a lot of our auxiliaries that they are sending cards to the residents in nursing homes, and I never thought of doing that, but I think that will be something that I will do next year. You can start by using the cards that you get from National and then buy cards after a holiday and then use them next year for the residents.

I have not been able to sit down and get the order done for White City, but I am going to do that this week. If any other auxiliary would like to send sone care products or clothing into that hospital, please let me know and I will help you set it up. When you get the order in you need to let me know so that I can let the director know when the order is coming in so that she can get it picked up. It feels good that we can help that facility again.

I am doing a raffle of two diamond art pictures at convention and all the money that I get from that raffle is going into the hospital funds. The tickets are a dollar a piece or six for 5 dollars. If you aren’t going to the convention and would like to buy tickets for the pictures, please let me know and I will have get some tickets for you. I will be selling tickets at the convention so find me and buy tickets because we need to get more money in that fund to help our hospitals. So please find me at convention and I will sell you some tickets for the raffle.

Hope to see some of you around at district meetings and the National Presidents visit. That should be a nice time. Hope many of you make it to convention this year or to the Training Sessions this summer. It has been very interesting doing this program this year.