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Guy W. Iversen
AMVETS Post 49 Cedar Falls, Iowa |
Junior AMVETS
Junior AMVETS serve the Post and community through a variety of civic programs. These efforts are grouped into:
Americanism - service to promote patriotism
- Marching in parades
- Presenting flowers at special events
- Placing and retreiving flags at cemeteries
- Participating in Veteran's Day, Memorial Day & POW/MIA Day programs
- Fundraising for Freedom's Foundation
Hospital Care
- Fundraising for neo-natal & burn units
- Making tray favors for patients
- Hospital visitation
- Hosting bingo nights and parties at the Veteran's Home & hospitals
Children's Well-Being - doing service for children
- Toy Hazard education programs
- School donations
- Toy drives for children's homes
- Childhood safety programs
- Bike safety programs
Community Service - doing service for families (adults and children together) and community organizations.
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Cancer Drives
- Paws With a Cause
- ALS
- Animal Shelter
- Recycling drives
- AMVETS Driver Excellence
- American Red Cross
- Easter Seals
- Fire & Flood Recovery
- Food Pantries
S.O.S. - Doing service for those in the Military
- Military care package drives
- Writing letters to servicemen and women
- Contributing to the USO
For period June 2009 - May 2010
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Eligibility for membership in the Junior AMVETS is limited to the sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, and grandchildren of AMVETS, deceased members of AMVETS, and members of the Auxiliary and servicemen who died and who would have been eligible for membership in the AMVETS, including all children that they may be legal guardian of, from the ages of seven to, and including, seventeen years. A local organization may be formed by ten eligible individuals, approved by both the local AMVETS Post and the State Department of AMVETS, and if one exists, the State Department of Junior AMVETS. Charters will be issued by the National Department, Junior AMVETS.