The 2nd District

American Legion

Family Newsletter

July, 2019

Legion Commander:

Cindy Brunk Email: peacefulacres@icloud.com Auxiliary President:

Kristen Donnelly Email: Donnelly.kristen.81@gmail.com Honorary Junior President:

Anastasia Donnelly

SAL Commander: Larry (Lars) Helland Email: larryhelland@yahoo.com ALR Director:

Randy Olson Email: rrolson734@gmail.com

**Newsletter News**

The newsletter email is district2mnlegionfamilynews@gmail.com Please submit all articles/pictures/posters etc. you wish to have published in the newsletter before the 22nd of the

prior month. THIS IS THE LAST PRINT VERSION OF THE DISTRICT NEWSLETTER!! YOU WILL NO LONGER RECEIVE ONE IN THE MAIL!!

To help the District cut down on expenses and time it takes with the mailings of the newsletter, it was decided at convention time to go all electronic for the newsletter. Please encourage someone from each Post, Unit, Squadron and Chapter to receive the newsletter via email and print it out for their meetings. It will also be

available on the district website at www.mnlegion2nddistrict.com on the newsletter page. Brad Pagel will be taking care of the newsletter temporarily until a replacement is found. Contact Brad via the district newsletter email to be added to the email list. Mailing address is 2655 Linden Ave Slayton MN 56172. Upcoming Events July 10-13 Department Convention Willmar MN July 27 District Changeover Okabena MN 2:30pm July 28 Ice Cream machine unveiling Luverne Veterans Home 2:00pm Aug 1st 2019 – ALR Kickoff Party Post 6 Pipestone MN Aug 23-29 2019 National Convention Indianapolis IN

2nd District Commander Column

~~2nd District 2018-2019 CMDR Cindy Brunk~~ Hello American Legion Family, >> It’s a bittersweet, but my time as serving as 2nd District Commander will soon come to an end. I am so thankful to all the wonderful people that helped me this past year. I’m not going to get myself in trouble by trying to call off names but you know who you are!! Thank you so much!!! >> I do want to mention my Post and members in Dundee, the District Officers and Chairman’s. >> To the wonderful Posts that were so kind and supportive to me this year thank you it has been an honor and so much fun, with many wonderful memories!! >> We reached our goals for my Projects and I am so thankful and humble in saying thank you so much. The unveiling of the Ice Cream Machine with lunch and of course ice cream will be July 28th, 2:00 PM at the Luverne Veterans Home everyone welcome, please come!! >> Please continue to send the names of Veterans in nursing homes to me, so I can deliver them the quilts that are being made. Special thanks for those donations as I continue with this ongoing project!! >> Thank you to the Pipestone Post including Scott Park, CMDR Swenson for all the hard work they did to host the 2nd District Convention!! Congratulations to Brad Pagel the newly elected CMDR and his team as we move into the new year for the American Legion and taking care of our Veterans and their families. >> Change over of Officers, July 27th, 2:30PM, Legion Post in Okabena!! >> Remember not all of you can do everything, but each one of you can do something!! >> Again for all your hard work I couldn’t of done it by myself, the phone calls, the hand shakes, the invites, you attending events, the driving, wonderful food, the donations, giving me directions, telling me thank you, I am so appreciative and thankful to all of you!! >> God Bless you and thank you for your service!!

Chaplain Notes

God bless our troops and keep them safe. God bless America. God bless everyone. Chaplain Denny

American Legion Riders

The American Legion State Legacy Ride Kickoff Party will be on August 1, 2019 at the Michael Book American Legion Post #6 in Pipestone, MN. Social hour at 5 pm, Supper at 6 pm, and Program at 7 pm. Block of rooms have been reserved under “American Legion Legacy Ride” to call and reserved for Thursday night. The two hotels in Pipestone are the Grandstay Hotel & Suites at (507) 562-1100. Their rate is $105.00. This hotel has a pool/hot tub and continental breakfast. The other hotel is Americas Best Value Inn at (507) 690-0091. Their rate is $79.07 for two queen beds or $69.18 for one queen bed. This hotel has NO pool/hot tub but does have continental breakfast. Both hotels located near the intersection of state highways 23 & 30 next to McDonalds.

Mark the Dates

Adrian SAL pancake breakfast last Sunday every month. 9-1

Bricelyn Post SAL steak fry 3rd Saturday every month.

Keister Post steak fry 4th Saturday every month.

Madelia Steak Fry 3rd Saturday every month 5-730pm

Any post events please send them in to get in newletters.

2nd District Legion Membership

2018-2019 Ryan Hill, Membership Director This is the delegate strength report for convention. 6,793 goal 6,397 total 84 posts 12 on goal 94.17% of goal 4 LAKEFIELD 62 62 5 WORTHINGTON 110 110 6 PIPESTONE 163 163 7 SLEEPY EYE 130 130 10 LAKE BENTON 74 74 11 MANKATO 350 350 19 MADELIA 108 108 32 ADRIAN 70 70 33 ST. JAMES 186 186 36 FAIRMONT 245 245 38 REDWOOD FALLS 143 143 41 LAMBERTON 85 85 42 EDGERTON 70 70 64 SLAYTON 65 65 82 WINNEBAGO 54 54 89 BLUE EARTH 211 211 115 TRUMAN 38 38 123 LUVERNE 74 74 130 JACKSON 203 203

132 NEW ULM 530 530 133 JASPER 26 26 152 WESTBROOK 33 33 165 BRICELYN 65 65 185 TYLER 69 69 192 ELMORE 36 36 194 IVANHOE 6 6 195 HENDRICKS 29 29 196 ELLSWORTH 35 35 206 WINDOM 139 139 210 WELLS 135 135 224 HERON LAKE 32 32 244 COMFREY 51 51 257 SPRINGFIELD 181 181 263 WABASSO 54 54 267 WALNUT GROVE 69 69 269 MADISON LAKE 40 40 274 MILROY 42 42 275 SEAFORTH 12 12 276 AMBOY 50 50 285 LAKE WILSON 133 133 286 SANBORN 56 56 287 MINNESOTA LAKE 41 41 294 LAKE CRYSTAL 174 174 306 VESTA 17 17 309 BELVIEW 48 48 318 FULDA 71 71 319 GRANADA 6 6 322 CURRIE 83 83 329 CAMBRIA 15 15 338 CHANDLER 20 20 356 SHERBURN 75 75 365 HANSKA 31 31 373 TRIMONT 57 57 385 WANDA 36 36 386 DUNDEE 33 33 389 MOUNTAIN LAKE 39 39 391 STORDEN 33 33 399 HILLS 44 44 401 JEFFERS 46 46 454 KIESTER 54 54 461 ROUND LAKE 124 124 464 BREWSTER 77 77 467 LUCAN 29 29 475 ST. CLAIR 82 82 478 HARDWICK 63 63 486 DELAVAN 17 17 496 BIGELOW 17 17 506 RUTHTON 22 22 519 CLEMENTS 38 38 522 NORTHROP 59 59 529 CEYLON 47 47 534 HOLLAND 22 22 553 WELCOME 93 93 561 LEWISVILLE 71 71 569 EASTON 53 53

576 AVOCA 29 29 582 REVERE 8 8 608 OKABENA 69 69 614 SIOUX VALLEY 22 22 616 GOOD THUNDER 41 41 617 EAGLE LAKE 133 133 632 DOVRAY 19 19 636 LISMORE 65 65 650 ST. CLAIR AT LARG 10 10

2nd District Auxiliary Membership 2018-2019

Raleen Tolzmann, Membership Chairman 2 nd District Auxiliary Membership

AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY

2ND DISTRICT MEMBERSHIP

Summer has arrived and our 2018-2019 year is coming to

an end – your membership year is not quite done yet –

Have you thought about putting an information booth or

table at your local celebration? It’s a good time to get the

information out about the Auxiliary, who we are, what we

do, and why we do it. You can’t get new members if they

don’t know these things. There are other organizations

out there for them to join but do they do what we

do?Congratulations to Brewster for making goal at

District Convention! Good Job Brewster. I want to thank

every unit for what they have done for membership this

year, without members in our Auxiliary, the Auxiliary

would not exist. We need to continue supporting our

Veterans and their families, the need is as great as it was

100 years ago when we were organized. Have a good

summer Unit members! Don’t forget to thank a veteran

for his or her service! Raleen Tolzmann 2nd District

Membership Chairman

2nd

DISTRICT MEMBERSHIP 2018-2019

Unit

No.

Unit Name DNO

/Goal

# of

Mem

% of

goal

32 ADRIAN 44 45 107.14%

276 Amboy 50 35 70.00%

576 Avoca 31 27 87.10%

309 Belview 59 36 61.02%

496 Bigelow 18 14 77.78%

89 Blue Earth 136 114 83.82%

464 BREWSTER 69 69 100.00%

165 BRICELYN 47 56 119.15%

329 Cambria 15 10 66.67%

529 Ceylon 59 35 59.32%

338 Chandler 25 24 96.00%

519 Clements 20 17 85.00%

244 Comfrey 35 32 91.43%

322 Currie 73 59 80.82%

486 Delavan 15 11 73.33%

632 Dovray 57 47 82.46%

386 Dundee 23 20 86.96%

617 Eagle Lake 154 117 75.97%

569 Easton 70 59 84.29%

42 Edgerton 58 46 79.31%

196 Ellsworth 19 16 84.21%

36 Fairmont 173 132 76.30%

318 Fulda 38 33 86.84%

616 GOOD THUNDER 35 53 151.43%

365 Hanska 48 45 93.75%

478 Hardwick 34 23 67.65%

195 Hendricks 48 35 72.92%

224 Heron Lake 45 41 91.11%

399 Hills 22 17 77.27%

534 Holland 64 48 75.00%

130 Jackson 156 141 90.38%

133 Jasper 32 28 87.50%

401 Jeffers 33 21 63.64%

454 Kiester 38 24 63.16%

10 Lake Benton 69 50 72.46%

294 Lake Crystal 150 137 91.33%

285 Lake Wilson 139 127 91.37%

4 Lakefield 72 62 86.11%

41 Lamberton 117 107 91.45%

561 Lewisville 67 49 73.13%

636 LISMORE 49 49 100.00%

467 Lucan 27 26 96.30%

123 Luverne 76 54 71.05%

19 Madelia 57 48 84.21%

269 Madison Lake 29 27 93.10%

11 Mankato 126 68 53.97%

274 Milroy 36 31 86.11%

287 Minnesota Lake 91 83 91.21%

132 New Ulm 205 177 86.34%

522 Northrop 89 72 80.90%

608 Okabena 79 62 78.48%

6 Pipestone 83 70 84.34%

38 REDWOOD FALLS 72 72 100.00%

582 Revere 16 13 81.25%

461 Round Lake 94 84 89.36%

506 Ruthton 37 29 78.38%

286 Sanborn 48 41 85.42%

356 Sherburn 39 36 92.31%

614 Sioux Valley 14 11 78.57%

64 SLAYTON 49 57 116.33%

7 Sleepy Eye 45 33 73.33%

257 Springfield 195 168 85.13%

475 St. Clair 51 35 68.63%

33 St. James 108 82 75.93%

391 Storden 22 20 90.91%

373 Trimont 45 43 95.56%

115 Truman 46 31 67.39%

306 Vesta 16 12 75.00%

263 WABASSO 82 89 108.54%

267 WALNUT GROVE 66 67 101.52%

553 Welcome 57 41 71.93%

210 Wells 241 180 74.69%

206 Windom 99 61 61.62%

82 Winnebago 28 15 53.57%

5 Worthington 52 37 71.15%

2 District Total 4924 4086 82.98%

AS OF WEEK 06/12/2019

Poppy Report

Happy July 4th to everyone! Remember to thank

veterans and active duty service members for their

service and allowing us to enjoy our freedom.

It was nice to meet many of you at the 2nd District

Convention on June 8 in Pipestone.

The poppy contest first-place winners were:

Centerpiece: Kristeen Asleson, Unit 294 Lake Crystal

Wreath: LeAnn Nelson, Unit 287 Minnesota Lake

The recipient of the Vanlandingham Poppy Plaque is

Vickie Milbrath and Unit 608 from Okabena. They used

poppies at a past president’s funeral and had their

Poppy Princess hand out poppies and carry a poppy

bouquet in a parade. Congratulations to all! Remember

to remind everyone in your unit to sign up to receive the

district newsletter via email.

Thank you, Amy Haaland 2nd District Poppy Chairman

Baseball Report

The American Legion Baseball season is underway!

Play-offs will begin in mid-July. All levels and divisions

are now under a sub-state format. Some teams may be

assigned outside their districts in order to maintain an

even balance in the number of teams competing in each

sub-state.

We have 10 teams in our division 1 sub-state of Senior

Legion. One team has indicated they won't participate in

the post-season, so after a play-in game, 8 teams will

compete in that tournament in New Ulm

We have 19 teams assigned to us for Senior Legion

division 2. Some have let me know they won't be able to

field a team for the play-offs, so we will adjust

accordingly. After the Sub-sub-state tournaments, eight

teams will compete in Luverne for the chance to advance

to the State Tournament.

We have two division 1 Junior Legion teams, and they

will compete in their sub-state tournament in Marshall

against six teams from District 7.

We will have our first ever division 2 Junior Legion Sub-

state Tournament this year, also in Luverne.

Tournament schedules are being planned, but not firmed

up yet at the time I am writing this. I encourage you to

check with your team(s) for game dates and times as we

approach mid-July.

We have firmed up our sub-state tournament sites and

dates.

Sr. Legion division 1 Sub-state #2 will be hosted by New

Ulm. 9 out of 10 teams are expected to compete, so we

plan to have a play-in game Monday evening July 22.

That winner will join the other seven teams competing

Wednesday July 24-Saturday July 27.

Sr. Legion division 2 Southwest Sub-state will be in

Luverne. The eight teams will begin play on Thursday

July 18. Action will continue on Friday & Saturday July

19 & 20, and resume Friday July 26, with the

championship decided the next day.

Jr. Legion division 2 Southwest Zone will also be held in

Luverne. We are staggering the dates so those players

who are dual-rostered may be available to both of their

teams. We will play Sunday July 21, Tuesday July 23,

Thursday July 25, and have the championship on

Sunday July 28.

Our two Jr. Legion division 1 teams will play in Sub-state

G. That tournament will be in Marshall Monday July 22,

and Friday to Sunday July 26 to 29, and will be directed

by someone else.

Results will be available on the Legion Hub

http://www.legionbaseballhub.com.

Second District Family Picnic and Pontoon Rides with

our special guests the Veterans and staff from the

Luverne Veterans Home at East Side Acres by Round

Lake, MN.

Mountain Lake Legion Members along with World War II,

Army Veteran Dean Schied, 100 years old (center) and

2nd District Commander Cindy Brunk help celebrate

POW WOW days!!

Special thanks to Dept Commander Redepenning for

coming to the 2nd District Convention.

Congratulations to Jim Hunt for taking home the Top

Banana Award presented to the Top VCDR for their hard

work and dedication to the American Legion at the

District Level. Good job Jim and thank you.

Steve Fosness-Lee C. Prentice American Legion Post 36

Commander presents a $2,000.00 check to Duane

Mabon-Luverne Veterans Home to be used toward the

purchase of iPods and music for the veteran residents.

Members of the Fairmont National Guard, Lee C. Prentice

Post 36 & Auxiliary marched, in the Interlaken Heritage

Days Parade in Fairmont, MN, with the colors and rode

the Legion float dedicated to the American Legion

celebrating it’s 100th Anniversary.

**Newsletter News**

The newsletter email is

district2mnlegionfamilynews@g

mail.com

Please submit all

articles/pictures/posters etc. you

wish to have published in the

newsletter before the 22nd of the

prior month.

THIS IS THE LAST PRINT

VERSION OF THE DISTRICT

NEWSLETTER!! YOU WILL

NO LONGER RECEIVE ONE

IN THE MAIL!!

To help the District cut down on

expenses and time it takes with

the mailings of the newsletter, it

was decided at convention time

to go all electronic for the

newsletter. Please encourage

someone from each Post, Unit,

Squadron and Chapter to

receive the newsletter via email

and print it out for their

meetings. It will also be

available on the district website

at

www.mnlegion2nddistrict.com

on the newsletter page.

Brad Pagel will be taking care of

the newsletter temporarily until

a replacement is found. Contact

Brad via the district newsletter

email to be added to the email

list. Mailing address is 2655

Linden Ave Slayton MN