Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of North Carolina
The funeral arrangements for Rev. A. G. Parker are now set and the viewing is tomorrow, Monday, Feb 6th. Please share this information with your post members. The Viewing will be from 6-8 p.m., Monday, at the Hayworth Miller Funeral Home located at 108 E. Kinderton Way in Bermuda Run , NC. The funeral will be at 11am, Tuesday, at the Yadkin Valley Baptist Church, Advance, NC, off of Hwy 801.
Read MoreWe all know what an IRS Form 1040 is. We all know the consequences of not filing. If you don’t earn enough, you don’t have to file. However, this is not the case with non-profits. The IRS law changed and there are things we must now do. One is, each non-profit must file each year! This also applies if your income is less than $50,000.
Read MoreThe North Carolina department lost a long time friend and member today, Saturday, February 4, 2012. Reverend A. G. Parker died today in Raleigh, North Carolina, while attending the Winter Council of Administration meeting. His wife, Frances, and friends were with him.
Read MoreDoes your Post have a newsletter or website that you have worked hard to build? Does it jump out as an exciting, informative, and full of stuff that makes you proud of your post? Why not submit it for consideration in the 2012 VFW National Annual Publications Contest? Your post can be big or small and still win, as there are three post sizes in competition. Districts are also eligible to compete. C. V. Cummings Chapel Hill VFW Post 9100 took national honors last year (small post). Why not you?
Read MoreThe Veterans of Foreign Wars and VFW Auxiliaries will be holding a large scale recruiting event at the Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Hosted by Charlotte Motor Speedway (at Concord, NC), and Sponsored by the USO. We will have four separate tables set up in different areas of the event and there will be Veterans there from around the area. This is a great opportunity for the VFW to offer those Veterans a Welcome Home that they may never have received.
Read MoreLast year the Durham VA Medical Center Audiology Clinic was selected as one of only ten VA Centers nationally to participate in a pilot program that allows an Audiologist in Durham to program hearing aids on a patient at a local CBOC. With the help of an Audiology Health Technician who travels to the patient site, the doctor at Durham uses a teleconferencing camera and specialized computer software to control the audiology instruments located at the CBOC to verify hearing aid performance and make needed adjustments.
Read MoreThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce is hosting a 2012 Hiring Our Heroes Job Fair in Charlotte (Concord), NC, on February 13, 2012.
Read MoreThe Armed Forces Benefit Association (AFBA) provides a free, no cost $5,000 insurance policy to civilian first responders! AFBA is a non-profit organization started by General Dwight Eisenhower after World War II that until recently provided inexpensive death benefits only to military personnel. However, as a result of 9-11 Commission findings, AFBA has opened eligibility to the same coverage to active first responders! This includes both professional and volunteer Police, Fire, EMT, and Ambulance responders.
Read MoreThe Medicare Advantage Disenrollment Period is from January 1st to February 14th 2012.
Read MoreThe Department of North Carolina has announced its three state-level winners of the 2011-2012 Public Servant Gold Medal Awards. They are Franklin Lee Westbrook of Fayetteville for the Emergency Medical Technician Gold Medal, Jeffrey G. Hill of Hope Mills for the Firefighter Gold Medal, and Melissa Kiefer of Charlotte for the Law Enforcement Officer Gold Medal. Westbrook and Hill were sponsored by Hope Mills Post 10630, and Kiefer was sponsored by Monroe Post 5464.
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