{"id":64618,"date":"2015-11-14T14:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=64618"},"modified":"2015-11-14T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T17:33:08","slug":"veterans-thank-you-dinner-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=64618","title":{"rendered":"Veteran&#8217;s Thank You Dinner a Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151111_173107JoeSmithFritzScherz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64619\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151111_173107JoeSmithFritzScherz.jpg\" alt=\"20151111_173107JoeSmithFritzScherz\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151111_173107JoeSmithFritzScherz.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151111_173107JoeSmithFritzScherz-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151111_173107JoeSmithFritzScherz-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Pictured are town of Verona veteran Joe Smith (from the Army) and Councilman Fritz Scherz, taken on Nov. 11 as Councilman Scherz and his family hosted the 5th\u00a0Annual Thank You Dinner for Town of Verona Veterans. Veterans from the Air Force, Army, Marines, and Navy attended along with their families.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Town of Verona Veterans, Dick Prior and Frank Buda (both from the Navy) and Councilman Fritz Scherz was also taken at the 5th\u00a0Annual Thank You Dinner for Town of Verona Veterans. Frank played accordion during the event and did a special medley that honored each branch of the United States Military.<a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151111_180055DickPriorFrankBudaFritzScherz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-64620\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151111_180055DickPriorFrankBudaFritzScherz.jpg\" alt=\"20151111_180055DickPriorFrankBudaFritzScherz\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151111_180055DickPriorFrankBudaFritzScherz.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151111_180055DickPriorFrankBudaFritzScherz-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151111_180055DickPriorFrankBudaFritzScherz-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>(Town of Verona, NY \u2013 Nov. 2015) Many heartfelt thanks to everyone that helped make my 5th\u00a0Annual Thank You Dinner for Town of Verona Veterans on Nov. 11\u00a0a success.\u00a0 Thanks to Josh Allen, Diana Dodge, George Eggen, Gia Torrey, Owen, Russ, and Spencer Walker for helping out as well as The Hotey and the media that helped publicize the event.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Verona Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6811 for providing the venue for the Thank You Dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to my wife, Kathy for being so helpful before and during the dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Town of Verona Veteran, Frank Buda for playing accordion and honoring all branches of the military by playing a special medley.<\/p>\n<p>Last, but certainly not least, thanks to the Veterans and their families that attended.\u00a0 Your service and sacrifice to our great country will never be forgotten.\u00a0 I am so honored to call these great people my friends and Verona my hometown.<\/p>\n<p>To see some photos from this Thank You Dinner, please go to my website: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzscherz.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.fritzscherz.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fritz Scherz,\u00a0Town of Verona<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured are town of Verona veteran Joe Smith (from the Army) and Councilman Fritz Scherz, taken on Nov. 11 as Councilman Scherz and his family hosted the 5th\u00a0Annual Thank You Dinner for Town of Verona Veterans. Veterans from the Air Force, Army, Marines, and Navy attended along with their families. Town of Verona Veterans, Dick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678,21571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}