Community Highlights

Note from Ty Cobb, Quartermaster, Texas VFW Post 2427, Tomball

Our Post has had an ongoing partnership with the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center since before COVID began in 2020. Carole Steinocher (our former Auxiliary President who tragically passed away from COVID) worked with many other Auxiliary members, officers, and membership to ensure that this organization had a place to conduct the much needed collection of lifesaving blood for use in local hospitals for infusion/transfusion procedures.

The reason to donate is simple…it helps save lives. We all have to stick together when trying to save our veterans lives and the best way we can make a difference is to continue to be involved in “Veteran-only” events and fundraisers and to also strive to be a beacon in the community so that everyone can benefit. Every two seconds of every day someone needs blood. Since blood cannot be manufactured outside the body and has a limited shelf life, the supply must constantly be replenished by generous blood donors. Our Post wants to help create an environment where this lifesaving blood can be collected and for people in the community (who are not veterans) to be able to speak to us so that they can learn from our endeavors and we can create long-lasting partnerships.

Blood donors play a vital role in the healthcare of patients in our community. About 37% of the population is eligible to donate blood, yet only 5% actually do. With every blood donation, you are providing strength, hope and courage to patients and their families in your local hospital. We want more people to donate blood — and to truly immerse ourselves into the community means holding as many of these Blood Drives as we can facilitate.

On November 2, 2021, our hard work over the last two years was recognized by the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center. Tomball VFW Post 2427 and its Auxiliary was recognized as the 2021 Volunteer Partner/Venue of the Year. Since March of 2020, the Post and Auxiliary were able to host, and the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center able to conduct, 28 total blood drives, collecting 624 “product units” of blood that directly touched the lives of 1,872 people in our Greater Tomball/Houston community!

Thank you, Martin “Ty” Cobb

Want to learn how to hold Blood Drives at your Post? Please call Ty at 281-351-2427.

Post 7108 Makes Donation to Food Bank

VFW San Antonio Post 7108, and MG Unit 30 donated to the “Fighting Hunger,” a San Antonio Food Bank Initiative, on November 8, 2021, at its Post Membership meeting. This drive is to support the needy families and veterans in the community. The Food Bank supports the south of Texas from San Antonio to the Rio Grande Valley. The monetary amount donated helps supply food and meals to many folks who are affected by the pandemic and are still out of work. Pictured L-R are John Maines, Post Commander; Miranda Hernandez, S.A. Food Bank Philanthropy Coordinator; and Walter Neal, MG 30 Chairman.

Congratulations to Butte and his

veteran. They met for the first time on Monday August 23, 2021, and they are doing amazing! Thank you to the Texas VFW for having a program that provides veterans top quality and life-changing service dogs at no charge to the veteran. For more information, click on photo to be taken to United States Veterans Service Dogs website.