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President – Brenda Ogden
1st Vice – Frances Cousins
2nd Vice – Vacancy
Secretaries – Jennifer Cousins
Treasurer – Lucy Vennen
March 2026
March 2026
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, MARCH 3,2026 at the hall. Dinner is served at 6 PM.
We are collecting membership dues for the year 2026. Please bring a check or cash. If you have not yet paid your dues for the year 2025, 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 just pay 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. To encourage greater participation and community spirit, we invite members to bring a friend or family member to our upcoming meetings. Sharing our mission with others helps strengthen our organization and allows us to serve even more effectively. If you know someone who may be interested in joining or learning more about the Auxiliary, please extend an invitation to them to attend.
At our February 2nd meeting we displayed and judged the annual POPPY POSTER Contest. We are proud to announce the winners. Their posters were sent to the district for the next level of competition.
On February 11, 2026, Operation We Care (OWC) packed 62 care packages for our active-duty deployed military troops. We want to extend our appreciation to the volunteers. We will pack again on MARCH 11, 2026, at 8: 00a.m. sharp, at Fort Knox Storage 2649 N. Causeway Blvd. Mandeville, LA.
Operation We Care is in desperate need of goods to send to servicemen and women. The Auxiliary voted to provide additional financial support by purchasing foil pouches of protein snacks (Tuna, Chicken) once a quarter. Without donations of snack size items, Operation We Care is in danger of missing shipments. If you can donate items or wish to donate funds to purchase items, please call Brenda Ogden (985-705-1235). If you know a deployed service member, please add their information on the website www.operationwecare.com Packing Day for Operation We Care at 8: 00a.m. sharpe at Fort Knox Storage 2649 N. Causeway Blvd. Mandeville, LA. call Brenda’s Cell # for code to enter the building.
YOU CAN HELP! Do you know of a business, school club, or church group looking to support a charitable organization by hosting a drive to collect needed items? Contact Brenda Ogden, OWC needs your help! All monies collected/donated goes towards covering postage.
The Auxiliary continues to support cash prizes to the Forest Manor Nursing Home’s BINGO for residents.
The facility Bingo Games have resumed!!!
The February Game was played on the 18th and 7 residents were WINNERS!!!
The Special Needs EASTER PARTY is scheduled for MARCH 7, 2026.
Our guests typically arrive by 10:30a.m. If you are available to volunteer, please contact Brenda Odgen.
All volunteers are being asked to arrive by 9:30 a.m.
The Veterans’ breakfast is scheduled for MARCH 14, 2026 from 9am-11am. If you can help cook, the kitchen will open at 7:00 to begin preparing.
We need kitchen help cooking, serving and clean up. The post hosts this event every second Saturday of the month. Spouses are welcome.
The Wreaths Across America Date for 2026 is DECEMBER 19, at 11 a.m. at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, 34888 Grantham College Dr. Slidell, LA. The National American Legion Auxiliary has adopted this worthwhile program as well as Unit 16 at our post. Let’s get a good start for 2026! Any amount you can donate is appreciated and welcomed. As you come into Post 16 near the door, we have a donation box and Sponsorship Forms for your convenience. Look for the Wreaths Across America CHRISTMAS TREE! Watch the newsletter for a push to sponsor a WREATH FOR 2026!
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!
The Auxiliary is looking for volunteers to make baked goods to raffle during BINGO GAMES. This is our major fund-raising activity. If you can bake something to raffle, please contact Brenda (985-705-1235) or if you would like to drop off a purchased or a baked item feel free to leave at the office with the Post Secretary, Ms. Fran, during business hours at the Post from 9AM to 3PM, Monday through Friday.
With these funds, the Auxiliary:
provides Christmas gifts for the 130 Veterans in the Southeast Veterans’ War Home in Reserve, LA
sponsors wreaths for veteran graves at the Southeast Veteran Cemetery in Slidell through Wreaths Across America
sponsors three holiday Special Needs Parties for STARC residents during the year
sponsors local Poppy Poster Contest for schools, awards $300 in prizes and forwards local winners to state
pays for two girls from each local high school (~10) to attend Louisiana Girls State
awards up to five $1,000 scholarships to high school graduating seniors
If you can help us with donated baked goods or purchased baked goods, please contact Brenda Ogden (985-705-1235).
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
American Legion Auxiliary Scholarship
American Legion Auxiliary Scholarship
The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 16 Scholarship for 2026 Graduating Seniors Students (boys and girls) with a direct bloodline to a veteran with current active duty or an honorable discharge have been released.
There are FOUR MUST HAVES for this application:
1 - DD214 from the servicemember or a copy of current active-duty orders
2 - A Certified Transcript from at least 7 semesters of high school
3 - A copy of ACT or SAT scores
4 - Letter of recommendation from the counselor or principal concentrating on the applicant’s character, size of the graduating class; student's position in the class (we know you do not do class rank but you do know if the student is in the top 25% of a class or the top 10% of a class would be helpful) and the cumulative grade point average. Character recommendation needs to be included.
The information and applications have been sent to the area schools/administrators/Principals and Counselors. We encourage all to apply!
DEADLINE IS MARCH 6, 2026
YOU MUST HAVE A DD214 WITH THE APPLICATION
** No Exceptions **
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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