Layne Jones Sixty-seven SOT-AZ and SOT-TEXAS members, along with their friends and relatives, cruised the Rhine River from Amsterdam, The Netherlands to Basel, Switzerland from July 1-8, 2017. Many of our cruisers joined together the week prior to the cruise in Normandy, France to commemorate D-Day, a very moving experience for all. The cruise, aboard…
Our Veterans Day golf tournament/annual fundraising week was a huge success due to the generosity of our Robson Ranch residents and our many local vendors. SOT Annual Live Auction: Our third annual auction was another successful event. This year’s big ticket items included two new golf carts from Action Golf Cart; several vacation packages thanks…
Thank you to all who have registered early for the Veterans Day Golf Tournament; we have just a couple of spaces still available for our signature event. And to those who have signed up for the Par 3 18-Hole Tournament on November 9…we thank you! But we still have a number of open slots for this…
Art Sloane Help! Help is urgently needed for the State Fair October 7-30 at the State Fairgrounds by Arizona StandDown. In order for the committee that puts on the StandDown to pay for the StandDown, help is needed October 7-30 at the State Fair as ushers in the grand stand. This is a way that…
The SOT-AZ annual Veterans Day Golf Tournament is now a full week of festivities. Our signature fundraising activities information follows, but first let us thank you for your past participation and what you have helped achieve. To date you have helped raise over $160,000, which in turn has helped many of our local Pinal County…
Art Sloane Retired military veterans under age 65 and their families are likely to pay hundreds of dollars more each year for health care coverage if Congress approves a 2017 budget proposed by the Pentagon. If you do not belong to a veterans organization and receive up to date information in their publications join one…
Memorial Day 2016, Eloy Veterans Center and Eloy City Officials cut the ribbon to the newly completed Phase One of the Eloy Veterans Memorial Park. A state-of-the-art 25 ft. flagpole was unveiled with the raising of Old Glory to the top and then back to half-staff in honor of our fallen military. It is truly…
StanDown: SOT-AZ continues to provide resources to our local veterans, and this month was no exception! In addition to providing our Pinal County StanDown veteran participants with a multitude of services, your generous donations of new socks that accompanied the new shoes overwhelmed our vets. Honor Flight: SOT-AZ has been financially supporting Honor Flight for…
Art Sloane With many veteran organizations in Chandler and Sun Lakes there are many deserving veterans that should be recommended for the Veterans Hall of Fame. How do you nominate someone for this honor which is given to only about 20 veterans a year out of 650,000 for their service after they leave the service?…
Art Sloane Ernest W. McFarland and the American Dream. The public is invited to experience the new memorial to honor Ernest McFarland. McFarland served as U.S. Senator, Senate Majority Leader, Governor, as Chief Justice of the AZ Supreme Court and was a Father of the GI Bill – helping millions of veterans obtain educations and…