Remember to Support Our Veterans and Their Affiliates
By Glen Wunderlich
Remember to support our veterans in any way you can. Join a veterans’ organization; plenty exist even for those who have not served. Or, support your local VFW, or any of their many affiliates when they have dinners or other events.
A perfect example will be June 18th at the Perry, MI VFW/Amvets club at 601 N. Main 48872, Ph: 517-625-3154. (If you don’t know where it is, drive on Main Street and keep an eye on the west side for a most beautiful front yard with a howitzer pointing across the road. Honest, nobody else in the neighborhood has one. You really can’t miss it.)
The Perry Sons of Amvets will host from 5 pm to 8 pm a remarkably priced $8.00 dinner consisting of a 12-ounce Angus N.Y. Strip steak grilled to order for you. The dinner also includes a huge baked potatoe, several vegetables, salad and roll, coffee, tea and water (and sometimes even homemade desset but we never promise it.) The fact is that the Ladies Auxiliary often provides donated baked goods and such out of the goodness of their hearts and they only last so long. Hint: Get there early!
And, there’s a great tie-in to carrying on the great Michigan tradition of deer hunting with the annual Perry Youth Hunt Extravaganza. I won’t go into details of this event now, but 10 percent of the proceeds of the Perry Sons of Amvets dinners and other events go directly for funding prizes given to licensed youth hunters immediately following the close of the two-day Youth Hunt season in September.
So, there you have it. A great way to help out the community and a great deal for you. Also, mark your calendar because there will be a repeat performance on the Fourth of July.
