Giving Tree for needy veterans
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Brainerd VFW, Post 1647 Helping veterans and the community. |
The Giving tree at the Brainerd VFW. (l-r) Auxiliary President Cheryl Hull and Auxiliary Guard Kim Hull.
December 17, 2025: Gift bags were assembled for 105 veterans in rest homes. Thanks to all who grabbed a tag and bought items. Your generous nature was above and beyond!! All gifts were delivered to appreciative vets. Thanks also to Auxiliary President Cheryl and Kim Hull for their dedicated work.
December 15, 2024: Seven volunteers at the Brainerd VFW wrapped 91 Christmas presents for veterans. Many were taken to nursing homes that night for distribution on Christmas.
December 2024: The Garland Giving Tree at the Brainerd VFW.
This is an opportunity to give a gift to a homebound veteran. The Brainerd VFW Auxiliary is giving our patrons the opportunity to purchase a gift for a veteran living in a nursing home in the Brainerd/Baxter area. This Garland Giving Wall is loaded with gift tags with names of veterans and the present(s) they would like to receive. Please don’t feel obligated to purchase every gift listed on the tag. Choose the name tag you like best, purchase a gift, then bring that gift and the tag back to the VFW by December 14 and give it to the bartender. The auxiliary members will wrap your gift and get it to the veteran. If you include a signed card with the gift, it will be sent with it.
Questions? Call Cheryl Hull at 928-978-2000.
Questions? Call Cheryl Hull at 928-978-2000.
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December 18, 2023:
Wow, what a great response to our Garland Giving Tree from our patrons. More than 50 veterans’ names were chosen from the tree for gift-giving and returned to the club for dispersal.
On Saturday, Dec. 16, seven elves (otherwise known as auxiliary members) came to the club to organize and gift wrap each gift. Many were already wrapped, and we left them that way. If a card was included with the gift, we made sure that the veteran got that too. We were overwhelmed by the generosity of the gifts and the thought that went into each one. Once wrapped and sorted by nursing home, our personal Santa(s) delivered all 80+ gifts using SUVs instead of reindeer.
A big thank you to our Elf Manager, Dawn Garin, for all the time and effort she put into getting the gifts organized.
Wow, what a great response to our Garland Giving Tree from our patrons. More than 50 veterans’ names were chosen from the tree for gift-giving and returned to the club for dispersal.
On Saturday, Dec. 16, seven elves (otherwise known as auxiliary members) came to the club to organize and gift wrap each gift. Many were already wrapped, and we left them that way. If a card was included with the gift, we made sure that the veteran got that too. We were overwhelmed by the generosity of the gifts and the thought that went into each one. Once wrapped and sorted by nursing home, our personal Santa(s) delivered all 80+ gifts using SUVs instead of reindeer.
A big thank you to our Elf Manager, Dawn Garin, for all the time and effort she put into getting the gifts organized.
December 1, 2023: GIVE A GIFT TO A VETERAN
The Brainerd VFW Auxiliary is giving VFW patrons the opportunity to purchase a gift for a veteran living in a nursing home in the Brainerd/Baxter area. This Garland Giving Tree has decorated gift tags with names of veterans and a present suggested by that veteran.
The Brainerd VFW Auxiliary is giving VFW patrons the opportunity to purchase a gift for a veteran living in a nursing home in the Brainerd/Baxter area. This Garland Giving Tree has decorated gift tags with names of veterans and a present suggested by that veteran.
Just some of the requests. See the tree, at the Brainerd VFW, up to December 15th.
