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VFW post seeks help for public service
Barbecued pork sale under way for April 4 delivery
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After adding just two new members last year, Statesboro’s VFW post plans to do more community service in 2015, but continues to struggle for volunteers and funds.Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10825 is holding a fundraiser, taking orders for cooked barbecue in the form of whole Boston butts, for pickup April 4. The price is $25.This and other fundraising efforts will help the post resume hosting Voice of Democracy and Patriot’s Pen essay contests for high school and middle school students in Bulloch County and provide assistance to veterans enrolled at Ogeechee Technical College, said Post Commander Jerry McCarthy.“We want to start these programs up, you know, but our members are spread thin as it is,” he said.The high school Voice of Democracy Contest is a gateway to state and national contests with a scholarship worth $30,000 as a top prize. The Patriot’s Pen, for middle school students, offers a $5,000 top prize.Because of declining resources, Post 10825 stopped sponsoring the local contests a few years ago but is taking steps to resume next school year, McCarthy said.Just last year members, most of them veterans of World War II through the Vietnam War, considered discontinuing the post, but marched on after the new members, one a Vietnam veteran and the other a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, joined.The post continues to seek younger veterans as members and is reaching out to veterans who are not members yet, McCarthy says.
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