Friday, November 23, 2012
With the Villa Park VFW still being rehabbed after a fire last May, Elmhurst American Legion opened its doors to keep tradition alive.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Elmhurst American Legion and the Villa Park VFW welcomed 183 recruits from Great Lakes Naval Base in North Chicago for Thanksgiving Day. Charter buses picked them up at the base Thanksgiving morning and brought them, with a police escort, to the American Legion Post at 310 W. Butterfield Road in Elmhurst. The recruits, along with about 100 volunteers, spent the entire day together in Elmhurst. They had breakfast and dinner, and were able to call their family and friends back home, watch football and generally relax and enjoy the day. The annual event is traditionally held at Villa Park VFW Post 2801, but a major fire in May left that building uninhabitable. Construction is nearing completion, and the building is expected to be open again …
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Elmhurst American Legion
310 W Butterfield Rd, Elmhurst, IL
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Monday, June 18, 2012
The formal disposal ceremony is held annually in conjunction with Flag Day.
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Elmhurst American Legion Post 187 held its annual flag disposal Saturday. The ceremony, which is held annually in conjunction with Flag Day, takes place in the Post parking lot. The ceremony is brief, but the flag disposal takes hours. Groups from all over the area collect hundreds of torn and tattered flags for the ceremony each year. Flag Day commemorates June 14, 1777, when the U.S. approved the design for the first national flag.
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Elmhurst American Legion
310 W Butterfield Rd, Elmhurst, IL
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
There is more to Memorial Day than picnics and vacations; just ask a veteran.
Many Americans honor the fallen on Memorial Day by visiting a cemetery, watching a parade or tuning into the National Memorial Day Concert on PBS. There also are those who look at the holiday as a three-day weekend filled with family activities. We wanted to talk to some veterans—about Memorial Day, their service to our country—so we visited Elmhurst American Legion T.H.B. Post 187. David Riva of Elmhurst, 64, is a Vietnam veteran who served as a specialist 4th Class in the U.S. Army. He trained with the 9th Infantry Division in Kansas and was stationed in Vietnam from February 1967 to February 1968. He compared the Vietnam War to the current war in the Middle East. “They were both wars that were outside the realm of a declared war," Riva…
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310 W Butterfield Rd, Elmhurst, IL
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Charges include underage drinking and obstruction of a police officer.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Several people were arrested at the American Legion Hall, 310 W. Butterfield Road, at 12:37 a.m. April 3. Police responded for a fight in progress. They were told an employee cut his arm after being pushed by a 17-year-old boy during an altercation. When an officer tried to have the teen step outside, Roberto Hernandez, 42, 1714 Heatherstone Ave., Montgomery, reportedly stepped in front of the officer and pushed him. Fabian Ramos, 32, of the same address, refused to leave the scene. All subjects were taken into custody. The teen was charged with battery and consumption of alcohol by a minor. Hernandez was charged with battery and obstructing a police officer, and Ramos was charged with resisting arrest and obstructing a police officer. All…
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Elmhurst American Legion
310 W Butterfield Rd, Elmhurst, IL
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Elmhurst observes Veterans Day with memorial ceremony, school assemblies, a church program—and zoo admission is free.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Veterans Day was born of Armistice Day, which was established in 1938 to honor veterans of World War I. To expand the remembrance to include all veterans, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed in 1954 that Veterans Day would honor all Americans that served in the armed forces. Elmhurst American Legion has a rich tradition of honoring its veterans, and has been doing so at the Veterans Memorial at Wilder Park since 1993, the year the Memorial was dedicated. The ceremony this year will begin at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 11. Elmhurst District 205 schools also will recognize Veterans Day. Churchville Middle School, 155 Victory Parkway, will hold a ceremony from 2 to 3:20 p.m. in the gym. Family members and friends who are serving or have …
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Wilder Park
225 S Prospect Ave, Elmhurst, IL
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Churchville Middle School
155 E Victory Pkwy, Elmhurst, IL
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St. Peter's United Church of Christ
125 W Church St, Elmhurst, IL
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York Community High School
355 W Saint Charles Rd, Elmhurst, IL
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Elmhurst American Legion
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Hawthorne Elementary School
145 W Arthur St, Elmhurst, IL
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Heather
11:59 am on Sunday, November 25, 2012
Thank you so much for hosting our recruits on Thanksgiving. My son was one of them and you all made his first Thanksgiving away from home memorable!!! Also thanks for the volunteers who let them use their cell phones and computers.. It was so great that my boy got mulitiple calls home to various family members and we got pictures of him and his fellow recruits as well. Thank you, Thank you, Thank… more ›