Based on our District Meeting on June 7, 2025, there are several updates and information from that meeting.
It is with great pleasure for us to congratulate Gretchen House who won the District 17 Oratorical contest, then won Zone, then won Department and won the regional context at national and then finished 2nd place in the semi-finals to the eventual National Oratorical contest winner. She was able to be at the meeting and did her 10-minute prepared speech that she did at the National contest. She was greeting after the oration with a “Standing Ovation” from the entire members that were in attendance.
Remember that the CPR & Post Officers Report must be sent to the department now. If you are running late, you should call the Department and make arrangement now. If you plan to attend the annual conference, please look up all the information at: https://www.missourilegion.org/conv-and-conference-info/.
A lot of posts have had “scammers” trying to get them to buy gift cards and send it to them in the name of district or department. DO NOT DO IT!!!!! We have also had a number of people wanting donations for some cause like rent or car payments, saying they are veterans, but with no documents. Tell them we have a program for that and go to Missourilegion.org and look up “Financial Assistance Application” and then print it (4 pages of information) when it completed send it in to department for them to approve the amount.