The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-15
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throughout the country have as- sumed active leadership.
 Activities
 These activities have involved and included the organization Or community service councils, city clean-up campaigns, improvement of community playgrounds, bath- ing beaches, and other recreation. al centers; establishment of swim ming and wading pools; organiza : tion of emergency relief and dis aster units; sponsoring safety-first programs. including the erection of American Legion safety signs at necessary locations; police protec- tion for school children at danger ous crosswalks or the sponsoring of school patrols for the same purpose; cooperation with school authorities in American Education Week programs; promoting essay contests for public school children on subjects of community interest and the awarding of American Legion medals and other marks of distinction to the outstanding members of graduating classes; urging the use of tho official flag code, furnishing copies of it to schools and to other groups desir- ing them; sponsorship of commu- nity band concerts, Christmas trees, picnics, forums, and enter 'tainment courses, as we'll as vari- ous organized athletic schedules for young and old; development of memorial projects, ranging from formal structures, bridges and buildings to parks, forests and trust funds: provision of free clin- ics, community nursing service and a municipal ambulance; promoticn of industrial and mercantile expo sitions; marking suitable buildings or tracts with the name of the community for the guidance of flyers (this program, incidentally, was carried out by practically every Legion post in Connecticut in 1929); assisting in the provision of adequate airport facilities, where needed; sponsoring troops of Boy and Girl Scouts. Four-H Clubs, Junior Cadet Corps, bands and drum corps; and the provision of vacation and camp privileges for under privileged children, and of milk and light lunches for under- nourished school children.
 Casper Davis Post
 Although the Davis post is bare ly four months old we are proud of the community service record which we have already established. The most outstanding piece of work is organization of the Wa terville Community Council which grew directly from a welfare en- terprise which was started by our post within month after we were organized. At the first meeting after we had received our charter it was suggested that we consider the sponsoring of an enterprise to raise funds to furnish holiday cheer to local needy families. Tn order to avoid all possible dupli- cation and overlapping of effort we invited other local groups which usually did the same things to name committees to cooperate with our committee. The response was most gratifying and before we were really under way every organized civic, fraternal, social and church group in Waterville had associated itself with us and we had organ iZed as a Christmas Welfare Fund committee. As result we spon- sored two benefit programs which not only netted us large sum of money for our purpose but also provided remarkable opportunity for all groups in the Watervillc community to meet socially. Our funds enabled us to extend holiday cheer in a substantial manner to nearly fifty local families. The most gratifying result, however, came later, when the committee met for a final report on it's activ- ities and it's members, voted to continue the organization on l permanent basis to be incorporated as the Waterville Community coun- ell. This group representing every organized local group is a working unit and ready on immediate mo- tice to use it's efforts in behalf of any project which may be of in- terest and value to the entire com munity. The council is not the. Legion but those of us in the Legion are proud of the fact that our activity brought it into exist ence. l feel that if we never dc anything else in the field of com munity service we have accoIn- plished something remarkably worthwhile in this.
 In addition we have already pro- vided the community with a free public band concert through the courtesy of the EZRA band and hope to do more in that respect during the summer. We have also organized a junior fife, drum and bugle corps which is making re- markable progress and is provid- ing healthy outlet for more than forty older boys and young men. In referring to these activities ] have only scratched the surface of the fertile field of community service in which the Legion is engaged. 1t fully realizes it's responsibility and it's obligations and is constructive ly carrying on, sthrough it's large membership, the mandate which Is contained in the preamble to its constitution.
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