VFW Post 2667

Commander John O'Connor Sr. Vice Commander Jeff Carroll Jr. Vice Commander Glenn Flake Quartermaster John Skinner Adjutant Dick Stender Chaplain David Jessel Trustee: 3-Year Dick Dennis Trustee: 2-Year Ron Freese Trustee: 1-Year Bobby Hammond Service Officer Joe Smith

VFW Post 2667 in Newnan is hosting its 2nd Annual $10 ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT Shrimp and Crawfish Boil on June 20 from Noon to 4 PM. The Boil will be at the Coweta Veterans Club on Highway 29. Children eat for $7. The Shrimp Boil is a fund-raising event supporting community service activities and some of the proceeds will go to the Family Readiness Group of the recently deployed 48th. The Southern Pride band will play live starting at 2:00. This band has opened for Brad Paisley and is scheduled to open for Kid Rock & Lynard Skynard. There will be door prizes and activities including limbo and corn hole games. Pull our your Hawaiian shirt and come on down to support local veterans.

Newnan's new Veterans Memorial Plaza will be dedicated May 25 during the annual Memorial Day program. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2667 will conduct the community Memorial Day ceremonies at 11 a.m. Guest speaker will be John Gwizdak, VFW past national commander. Gwizdak, a retired Army officer, is a Vietnam veteran. He has been the featured speaker at similar events held all across the nation and has for 25 years been a champion for veterans programs here in Georgia. A short musical program will be presented by Northside Elementary School Chorus, under the direction of Miss Joan Nelms. VFW Commander Jeff Carroll said this year's program will pay homage to every name on the community Honor Rolls that will be the plaza centerpiece. "This is a change from our normal ceremonies, which for each of the last 12 years has honored one of Coweta's war dead," said Carroll. "This year, while we remember those men, we celebrate this wonderful community achievement t