<div>Kearsing and Edwards American Legion Post 1600 is a 501(c)(19) Veterans Service Organization chartered through the national American Legion with a meeting hall located at 20 Station Road, Town of Ramapo, NY since 1950!
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<div><strong>WE ARE REACHING OUT TO ALL OF OUR MEMBERS AND BROTHER/SISTER ORGANIZATIONS FOR COMMUNITY SUPPORT TO HELP US PAY LEGAL EXPENSES TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST ENCROACHING HIGH DENSITY DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL FOREVER CHANGE THE SPECIAL CHARACTER OF THE POST 1600 MEETING HALL THAT WE ALL RELY UPON. PLEASE HELP SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS AND SHARE WIDELY.</strong>
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<div>Like all American Legion chapters our programs involve supporting our veteran members' and their families' needs. We maintain a community center with recreational grounds where veterans, policemen and other fraternal organizations sustain our mutual community connections.
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<div>Today the Post 1600 Meeting Hall is surrounded by trees and open space with golf course to the west, with the County of Rockland Mount Ivy Park to the North, and the Town of Ramapo ballfield to the East providing a green haven for our members to meet and share time with one another, their families, and their guests.
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<div>What is the Problem?
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<li>The Minisceongo Golf Course in Pomona NY was sold to a developer who asked the Town to rezone the property from 2 acres per single family home to a mixed use, multi family development complex with retail stores and hotels at more than ten times (1,000%) the density.
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<li>Post 1600 doesn't oppose development near by on this large site but there is ample room to hide the bulk of the development from the Post 1600 meeting hall and the public parkland entrance.
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<li>We don't want hills of multifamily barrack buildings replacing the entirety of the forested hills along the walking path into Mount Ivy park - which is all that separates our land from the new development - destroying the rural solitude of our picnic grounds, firing range and pavilion areas.
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<li>Like all of our neighbors we did not receive legally required notices of public hearings.
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<li>The Town irrationally refused to do an environmental impact statement for the site plan for the largest and most impactful project in all of Rockland County and even consider any site plan alternatives that would not destroy Post 1600.
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<li>Post 1600 was denied the opportunity to advocate for rezoning alternatives to reduce the impacts to our meeting hall that all of you use and rely upon.
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<li>We are raising money needed for legal representation. PLEASE HELP US TODAY.
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<div>What can you do?
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<li><strong>MAKE A DONATION:</strong> Whether large or small, we appreciate any amount of support you can make. Thank a veteran today by supporting your local American Legion organization!
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<li><strong>SHARE THIS GOFUNDME PAGE</strong>: We set a fundraising goal and we need your help to meet and exceed that goal. We need your help to get the word out. Share with your friends and family and share on social media (or ask your friends and family to help you share on social media). Let's get the word out today!
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<li><strong>MAKE A VIDEO</strong>: If you can share a video of how much the Post 1600 Meeting Hall has meant to you or your family or your organization please share that with us to share with others. Post your videos and messages of support on your facebook, twitter, instagram and other social media pages along with a link to our fundraiser.
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<div>Please donate large or small amounts whether publicly or anonymously.
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<div><strong>SUPPORT POST 1600 - A CENTRAL AND ACTIVE MEETING HALL FOR ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT ROCKLAND</strong>
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<div>The Post 1600 Meeting Hall is open 7 days a week for the benefit of our members, members of related not-for-profit organizations and guests to meet, organize, educate and socialize with one another in addition to the many regularly scheduled meetings of our membership and executive officers, and those of related organizations.
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<div>The Post 1600 Meeting Hall and grounds are used on a nightly basis Monday through Friday for regularly scheduled meetings and dinners, and the hall and grounds are rented out throughout the year.
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<li>Post 1600 holds a regularly scheduled dinners for members and their guests every Friday night except during summer months when held monthly;
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<li>Post 1600 holds a member meeting the third Tuesday of every month;
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<li>Post 1600 Ladies Auxiliary meets the third Tuesday of every month;
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<li>The Vietnam Veterans of America No 333 ) meets the first Thursday of every month and holds their big pig roast get together the first week of every June;
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<li>The Rockland County Hispanic Law Enforcement meets the third Thursday of every month and has their annual party on the grounds in July;
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<li>The Rockland County Marine Corp meetings are on the fourth Tuesday of every month;
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<li>The Hudson Valley 10-13 Association Inc. for retired NYPD officers meets the second Thursday of the month;
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<li>The Military Order of the Purple Heart  meets the third Saturday every month;
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<li>The Disabled American Veterans (DAV Post 98)– meets the second Thursday of every month (in the second meeting room);
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<li>The Rockland County Coordinating Council meets the first Wednesday of the month – where all veteran organizations meet to coordinate on issues;
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<li>Therapy Dogs of Rockland (see therapy-dogs-of-rockland.com) holds their dog training and evaluation meetings monthly on Saturdays or Sundays;
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<div>In addition to monthly meetings, many of our brother organizations meet informally and there are groups in attendance at the meeting hall every weeknights from 3pm to closing; and, Post 1600 maintains a shooting range on the grounds used by Post 1600 members and related above organizations listed above throughout the year.
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<div>Checks can be made out and mailed to:
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<div>Kearsing and Edwards American Legion Post 1600
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<div>20 Station Road
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<div>Pomona, NY 10970
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<div>We are on a mission to protect this piece of land for all of you, please join the battle!
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