AMVETS Post #7, Fountain Hills, was awarded the Arizona Post of the Year for 2016.

The primary criteria for the prestigious award are serving veterans and their families, community involvement and what the overall impression of the post is in the eyes of the Arizona Department Commanders. Post #7 is going on its 10th year at 17030 E. Enterprise Drive.

This past year Post #7 sponsored Michal Suchanek, a 15-year-old Fountain Hills student who won the National AMVETS Americanism award for the State of Arizona. Suchanek competed against students from across the state for writing an essay about Americanism. He won a three-day trip to the Freedom Foundation Conference in Valley Forge, Penn.

In the past nine years, Post #7 and Sons Squadron #7 have donated countless hours in time to many causes. In the last three years Post #7 and Sons Squadron #7 have donated the following amounts of cash: $13,000 to the Wounded Warrior Project; $11,000 to remodel a Post #7 Vietnam vet’s house -- he is wheelchair bound for life; $10,000 to MANA House for homeless veterans; $10,000 for veteran charities from a raffled car that was donated; $5,000 to the USS Arizona Memorial shrine room wall restoration in Hawaii; $5,000 to local high school sports teams; $3,000 to the local food bank; $3,000 to the local Crisis Nursery; $2,000 to the local sheriff's posse; $1,500 to our local VFW Post 7507; and $1,000 to the Missing in America Project for unclaimed Arizona Veteran cremains.

Post #7 and Sons Squadron #7 are currently conducting a membership drive. Post #7, as a USA Veteran member, is open to all honorably discharged vets or current military. The Sons membership is liberal in that you can be a father of a veteran or current military, a son, a grandson, a stepson, adopted son, husband or even brother.

Stop by Post #7 or call 480-837-9934 for further information.