Legion Post 90 representatives chat with visitors at Art Festival
On Jan. 14 and 15, the city of Cape Coral hosted the annual Arts Festival. The Rotary Club organized the arts festival with over 200 booths offering exciting art, crafts, home goods and food. In addition, many community organizations took part. One of those was American Legion Post 90.
Post 90 supports community events throughout the year. This year was critical. With hundreds of new residents in the ever-growing city, it was an opportunity to let people know of Cape Coral’s veteran’s organization and how the Legion provides community support.
Over the two-day festival, representatives from the Legion and Legion Auxiliary met scores of veterans, many new to the city. Additionally, Legion members met folks from educational and social service organizations that are now familiar with the organization’s work in supporting veterans and the community and expressed interest in areas where they could collaborate.
Interestingly, many of the new people were unfamiliar with Cape Coral, so Legion representatives answered questions about the city or how to find information on their own. Some just learned that Cape Coral had an American Legion Chapter and a VFW chapter right here in town.
Most importantly, since the Legion’s primary goal is veterans’ support, many people donated to the Poppy Drive, a veterans’ tradition going back to the early 1900s. Disabled vets make the poppies, and the contributions are returned to them. The result was contributions of approximately $2,000.
American Legion Post 90 was founded in April 2001, and membership is open to all veterans. The post offers a full canteen and lunch and dinner at its location on Southeast 47th Street in Cape Coral, and sponsors scholarships, Boy Scout, and Girl Scout troops, blood drives, V.A. volunteer and national emergency funds programs to assist veterans in need.
For additional information about the post, please call 239 540-8128 or contact alpost90@yahoo.com or the Legion PR Officer Ted Clark, tedclark12@gmail. com or call 845-527-7948.