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Oswego American Legion Post looking for new building · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego American Legion Post looking for new building Written by
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  Speaker 1: Eric Shelkoff. This article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. After being in the
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  Speaker 1: same building at nineteen West Washington Street in downtown Oswego
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen forty seven, Oswego American Legion Post number six
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five is looking to move. The Legion
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  Speaker 1: is looking to rebuild and relocate. Post Commander Chris Kern
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  Speaker 1: said during the May twenty sixth Oswego Committee of the
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  Speaker 1: Whole meeting. We've been at the current facility for seventy
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  Speaker 1: nine years, but the building is over one hundred years
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  Speaker 1: old and it's really just not working out anymore. It
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  Speaker 1: has expanded from the original two story house to include
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  Speaker 1: a banquet hall and downstairs bar dining area. The post
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  Speaker 1: is also home to the Ladies Auxiliary Unit and the
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  Speaker 1: Sons of the American Legion Squadron. The post plans to
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  Speaker 1: stay in the village. Kern said it recently opened up
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  Speaker 1: an account for a new building fund. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: start working on some fundraising. Kern said. The post's ultimate
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  Speaker 1: goal is to move into a new building that would
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  Speaker 1: have a banquet hall with a minimum capacity of two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty people. He said that way we can
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  Speaker 1: keep some of the business that we've seen going outside
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  Speaker 1: out of the village. In the village, kern said, and
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  Speaker 1: within that there would be a divider wall, so we
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  Speaker 1: could also break it down into two rentable units that
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  Speaker 1: each would hold one twenty five people. Oswego American Legion
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  Speaker 1: Post number six hundred and seventy five also is working
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  Speaker 1: to update its practices. In the next thirty to sixty days,
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  Speaker 1: we will start taking credit cards, which still blows my
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  Speaker 1: mind that up until this point we've maintained being cash only,
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  Speaker 1: kern said. Kerns is also a lieutenant with the Oswego
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  Speaker 1: Fire Protection District. He is a nineteen eighty nine Oswego
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  Speaker 1: High School graduate. He served in the US Marine Corps
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety three as was
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  Speaker 1: part of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. American Legion
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  Speaker 1: Posts six hundred and seventy five is involved in many
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  Speaker 1: community activities, including helping put on Cruise Nights in downtown Oswego,
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  Speaker 1: as well as holding a fish fry on Friday nights.
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  Speaker 1: The post also hosts BINGO on Wednesday nights, which has
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  Speaker 1: proved to be very popular over the years.