Auxiliary selling poppies
Each year, the American Legion and Auxiliary members raise funds through the distribution of the symbolic red poppies to support active-duty military, veterans, and their families.New Hampton’s Poppy Day will be today [Friday], and various Auxiliary and Legion members will be at Klunder’s, Kwik Star East and West, Theisen’s, and Fareway. Don Dixon will be contacting bank, post office, and courthouse personnel; he will also be on Main Street. Joy Hall and Andrea Strottmann will be working with Melissa Sinnwell and her sixth-grade social studies students in the afternoon.— For more on this story, see the May 18 New Hampton Tribune.