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NARFE Chapter 1734 Membership VP Sue Neri prepares gifts to be raffled while Joan Cwiertniewicz, our Treasurer and Lunch Chair, and Santa Claus and Chapter VP for Legislation, John Van de Vaarst catch up.<\/p><\/div>\n

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NARFE members gathering for holiday lunch at White Oak Tavern decorated for Christmas.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Joan Cwiertniewicz, NARFE Chapter 1734 Treasurer and Lunch Chair, with Santa Claus and Chapter VP for Legislation, John Van de Vaarst<\/p><\/div>\n

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The White Oak Tavern menu gave us a wealth of choices!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sue Tracy helped Santa by distributing raffle tickets.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chapter President Teresa Baker and Treasurer Joan Cwiertniewicz chatted with former Co-President Mark Wong.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chapter Secretary Patti Gillespie posed with Santa!<\/p><\/div>\n

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We all enjoyed gathering together to celebrate the holidays!<\/p><\/div>\n

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We filled two long tables making merry.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nice to chat with friends old and new!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Teresa got a photo with Santa too!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The 2025 NARFE Chapter 1734 holiday lunch held at The White Oak Tavern in Ellicott City, MD featured a gift raffle and a special visit from Santa Claus. Plus, we raised $1,270 for the Community Action Council of Howard County!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1145,"parent":31,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1150","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150\/revisions\/1170"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}