North Oakland VFW Post 334 will be selling Buddy Poppies May 8-10 at many locations in Orion, Oxford and Addison Townships.?
This is the only fundraiser that the Veterans of Foreign Wars carries out annually. The money raised is used to assist’needy and disabled veterans, support youth activities and the VFW National Home in Eaton Rapids, Michigan where there are many widows and orphans of men and women who lost their lives in the service of their country.?
The post also recently donated $500 to the Guardian Angel project headed by Charlotte Cito, which send packages to service men and women from this area that are currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.?
James Trumble, Senior Vice Commander of VFW Post 334, is the chairman of the post’s 2008 Buddy Poppy sales effort.’Carl Slomczenski, owner of CJ’s and Village Caf?, has donated three $15 gift certificates to go to the post’s top three sellers of Buddy Poppies.
In May 1922, the VFW conducted the first nationwide distribution of poppies in the United States. All the poppies are assembled by disabled veterans.
North Oakland VFW Post 334 meets the second Thursday of every month in the Club Room of the Knights of Columbus Hall on Orion Road.’The post was started in 1984 and members reside in Lake Orion, Oxford, Metamora, Leonard, Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills.?
For more information about the post, veterans can call the Post Commander Ernie Baker at (248)391-6933.