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June 2013 Meeting Notice

On June 18th, 2013 the Korean War Veterans Association, Chapter 189 will hold its monthly Meeting at the John E. Mealy Memorial VFW Post in Port Orange, Florida.

Members arriving for lunch can arrive at 12:00 and choose their meal from the VFW Bar Menu, and socialize during the meal. The regular KWVA Business Meeting will begin at 1:00 PM.

The Speaker for the meeting will be Deborah Beckwith, spokesperson for the William Chappell VA Outpatient Clinic in Daytona Beach Florida. Ms. Beckwith will present a program of Benefits for Korean Veterans who have question or concerns should attend this meeting. Veterans benefits to which the veteran is entitled is ofen due to the failure to follow up or even apply in the first place. This meeting is important - Don't miss it! For more details examine the postcard notice posted in the Recent Meeting Notice attached to this website.

As you know plans have been in the works for several months to set up a Korean War display at the New Smyrna Beach Museum just off Canal Street. If you have any memorabilia, that you can lend us, such as caps, boots, uniform parts, books, canteens, mess kits, belts, belt buckles, trenching tools. In fact anything you are proud of or that you think will help tell the story of the Korean War to strangers or the youth of today, in our small museum exhibit, please let us know at the meeting or contact Bob McGuire at 396.323.6401. Take a look at what you have. What you consider routine may be unique to another branch of service.

On May 14th the May 2013 edition of the Kimchi Kourier Newsletter went to press. This is the second newsletter this of the year, for our Chapter, and it looks great. Bob McGuire is the Newsletter Editor and we owe him a debt of gratitude for the newsletter and newspaper publicity he generates on the Chapters behalf. The newsletters will be sent out to all of our members through the US Postage System. If you have access to the web connect to Chapter 189's website, at www.cid189.kwva.org, and you can read a copy by going to the upper left hand corner of the home page and clicking on the "189 Newsletter" box.

On May 17th a presentation of the "Tell America" Program was presented to a number of Seniors at the Coronado Methodist Church in New Smyrna. As 2013 has been declared by Congress as the year of the Korean Veteran, we believe we will have additional request for this type of presentation in the near future. If you know an organization that might want to learn about the history of the Korean War please contact Bob McGuire at we would be pleased to set up a presentation.

The official opening of the Korean War Display, at the New Smyrna Museum will be held on July 27th. A short Memorial Ceremony will take place in the small park across from the museum followed by a wine and cheese formal reception in the museum, everyone is invited. The Korean War Display at the New Smyrna Museum will run from July 1st to November 15th, covering the 60th anniversary of the end of hostilities in Korea and Memorial Day. We will have access to the museum to install the exhibit between June 20th and July 1st.

We recently added a new feature to this website to allow us to post short notices between meetings that might be of interest to some of our members. These notices are posted as Post-It-Notes on a Cork-board background. To reach this Notice Board click on the block at the upper left hand side of the websites Home page marked Chapter Notices. In addition to special notices we would like to place the names of Chapter Members or their families who are sick or in need of our concern. If you have such a request and would like it posted contact Chuck Husbands at 386.760.7163.

Chapter 189 is still serving Coffee and Donuts at the Daytona VA Clinic, on Dunn Avenue in Daytona Beach, on the last Friday of every month. Someone at the VA plugs in the coffee pot at 5:30AM and we arrive and start giving out the Coffee and Donuts at 7:30 AM. We have been performing this task since the beginning of the year and we have met a great many veterans through this service. If you are an early raiser and just want to spend a few hours helping other Veterans come and join us. We are out of there by 10 AM or when the coffee and donuts run out. I know you will come away from the experience feeling that you accomplished something positive. We really need some support on this program so if you can help out just contact Chuck Husbands or Bob McGuire at the phone numbers posted elsewhere on this page.

Sick Call: As I write these notes, one of our Chapter 189 - Rose Balzer, the wife of Bob Balzer, is in a nursing home. John Heaphy who has been ill has made an amazing recovery and is back in action, Welcome back John. Keep Rose and any other members of our organization that is ill in your prayes. We wish all of them a total and speedy recovery.