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President – Brenda Ogden
1st Vice – Frances Cousins
2nd Vice – Vacancy
Secretaries – Vacancy
Treasurer – Lucy Vennen
July 2025
July 2025
Historian – Emma Busby
Chaplain – Vacancy
Sgt-at-Arms – Vacancy
Color Bearer – Emma Busby
Color Bearer – Vacancy
Publicity – Janice Charlesworth
Executive Committee:
Vacancy (3 years)
Vacancy (2 years)
Vacancy (1 year)
The next General Membership Meeting of the Auxiliary will be held at 7 pm, July 1st at the hall. Dinner is served at 6 PM.
Next month, the Auxiliary will begin collecting membership dues for 2026. If you have not yet paid your dues for the 2025 year, please pay as soon as possible. Your dues have to be up to date for the previous year prior to paying for the next year. If you would like to pay your dues for 2026 and are not concerned about continuous membership, you may pay just for 2026. Dues for the Auxiliary are $36.00 and $9.00 for junior members. For those of you who are paid members, please come to our meetings. Membership helps support us financially but we need your help. We need ideas and help implementing those ideas.
Our Kitchen Staff needs help. Please contact Scott or Brenda to see how you can help!
Covington Poppy Day
Covington Poppy Day
On Monday, May 19th, Covington, Mayor, Mark Johnson, proclaimed Friday, May 23, as Poppy Day in Covington. President Brenda Ogden accompanied by Little Miss Poppy, Cecilia Ogden, and Junior, Layla Ogden, were presented the Proclamation.
National Poppy Day
National Poppy Day
In honor of National Poppy Day, the Auxiliary distributed poppies to patrons of Acquistipace’s Grocery in Covington on Friday, May 23rd. Thank you Pam Herty, Janice and Dennis Charlesworth, President Brenda Ogden and some of our junior members for helping with this endeavor. Top row of photos, right-Pam Herty, Janice Charlesworth, and President, Brenda Ogden.
On Monday, May 26th, the Auxiliary participated with members of the American Legion and the Sons of the American Legion in honoring those who gave their life for our country.
The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Madelyn Ogden, Miss Poppy, and Cecilia Ogden, Little Miss Poppy. The American Heritage Girls signed the pledge for the hearing impaired.
Last, Covington City Councilman, Mark Verrett, and former LA Treasurer, John M. Schroder, Jr., Treasurer, Lucy Vennen, addressed the assembly on behalf of the American Legion Auxiliary.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Veterans’ Breakfast: Saturday, July 12th from 8am - 11am. If you can help cook, the kitchen will open at 6:30 to begin preparing. We will need kitchen help and serving help.
Annual Awards Ceremony: Thursday, July 17th at the American Legion Hall. Dinner will begin at 6 pm and the distribution of awards will begin at 7pm. We will need help serving and working in the kitchen. Please keep your calendar open to attend this event. Our scholarship recipients and Girls State delegates will be recognized.
6th District Conference: Saturday, July 19th at the American Legion Hall. We will need help preparing and serving lunch. Please contact Brenda if you are able to attend.
STARC Halloween Party: Saturday, October 25th at 10am at the American Legion Hall. We know this is early, but calendars fill up fast and wanted to be sure you all know about this event.
Operation We Care will have their July packing on July 9th at Fort Knox Storage at 8 am. Fifty packages were sent to deployed service members in March and the plan is to send packages to fifty more service members in June, and the plan is to send packages to fifty more service members in July. The Auxiliary voted to provide, in addition to financial support to help with postage, we will purchase foil pouches of protein snacks (Tuna, Chicken) once a quarter. Operation We Care is in need of names and addresses of deployed troops to receive packages. Please enter this information on the Operation We Care website: operationwecare.com. They are also in need of chicken in pouches, beef jerky and other snack size items. What we will provide is not enough. Please contact Auxiliary President Brenda Ogden, (985-705-1235) if you would like to help with this worthwhile project. Please consider donating cash for postage (which has recently increased again) or products.
The Auxiliary continues to support cash prizes to the Forest Manor Nursing Home’s BINGO for residents.
The June BINGO was held on the 18th and seven residents were winners!!!
The April calendar has not yet been released but we are welcome to visit at any time.
The Wreaths Across America Date is DECEMBER 13, 2025, at 11 am. Cut Off Date is November 1, 2025 to place last order for the year. If you are interested in honoring a veteran grave, please send a check to the Auxiliary at the legion’s address. The cost per wreath is $17, but any donation may be mailed to the Auxiliary and we combine all donations to purchase as many wreaths as possible. Please contact Pam Herty, 985-264-9980, if you have any questions about this program. Our drive for the 2025 Christmas ceremony started January 1st and we have sent our first donation to WAA for the December 2025 wreath ceremony. Our donation was enough to sponsor 270 wreaths during the two for one January period. In July Wreaths Across America is having a Giving in July Promotion during which we will contribute what we have collected so far. The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery currently has 3500 Veterans laid to rest. This cemetery has 15 sponsoring organizations at this time. Some are only able to donate 20 wreaths. We hope to help fill the gap as much as possible. The National American Legion Auxiliary has adopted this worthwhile program as well.
www.wreathsacrossamerica.org or you can call 877-385-9504
The Auxiliary’s Location Code is: LASLVC
Group Fundraising Number: LA0072P
Please use the above information when placing your sponsorship order online to ensure the wreaths go to our local veteran’s cemetery. If you have any questions, please call Pam Herty at 985-264-9980.
Check out our newly created Facebook Page!
Just click on the image to the left to get to us and see all of the activities available for members.
Thank you, Emma Busby, for setting up and maintaining this site!
During each BINGO session, the Auxiliary raffles baked goods to help raise money for two Veteran Projects.
We provide Christmas gifts for the 130 Veterans in the Southeast Veterans’ War Home in Reserve, LA.
We also use the money to sponsor wreaths for veteran graves at the Southeast Veteran Cemetery in Slidell through Wreaths Across America.
The raffle proceeds are split between these two veteran support activities. If you can help us with donated baked goods, please contact Toni Blackstock at (979) 235-7182. The Auxiliary has set their goal again this year at 250 wreaths with the hope of exceeding this number
Auxiliary Juniors
In the photo to the left, Auxiliary Juniors are decorating bags to wrap Christmas presents for veterans living in the Southeast Louisiana Veterans’ Home.
Brenda Odgen requests that all Junior Members call her to participate in our programs.
(985) 705-1235
We now have a “Give Butter” account allowing us to accept donations electronically through Paypal, Venmo, Credit Cards and Apple Pay. Hopefully this will boost our donations allowing us to be more generous in our veteran endeavors.
If you are attending a charitable event, to raise funds for the Auxiliary, please contact Lucy Vennen at lvennen@gmail.com. She will email you a printable QR code to tape to your table for people to use to donate funds.
Check out the QR code on the right. Give Butter is quite easy to use!
Scan this with you phone's camera
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