Daylight Saving Time ends
2025-11-02 | WA
Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 2, 2025, at 2:00 A.M. On Saturday night, clocks are set back 1 hour (i.e., gaining one hour) to “fall back.” Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on November 3, 2024, than the day before. There will be more light in the morning.

Daylight Saving Time ends
2025-11-02 02:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
When is the end of daylight saving time in 2025? Set your clocks back Sunday, Nov. 2nd.
Set your clocks back one hour at 2 am.
Daylight saving time was once known as ‘war time’
A March 2019 Department of Defense article mentioned daylight saving time was once known as “war time.”
When the Standard Time Act was signed into law March 19, 1918, daylight saving time became official. More daylight hours during the day would potentially help save energy costs during World War I. The law also established the time zones we know today.
The article states daylight saving time “was only in effect for about a year and a half, though, before it was repealed due to the war’s end, despite President Woodrow Wilson vetoing the repeal.”
Then, during World War II in February 1942, “Congress implemented a law instating a national daylight saving time to help conserve fuel and ‘promote national security and defense,’ which is why it was nicknamed ‘war time.’ The time zones were even known as that: Eastern War Time, Pacific War Time, etc.,” according to the Department of Defense.

Voiture 99 Promenade
2025-11-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Voiture 99 Chateau, 2809 NE 78th Street, Vancouver, WA, 98665-0637, United States
November 5th is our next Promenade. Please join us at 5pm for dinner with our meeting to follow at 6pm.

Smoked pork steak with cascade forest Chanterelle Mushroom sauce, grilled potatoes, sweet and sour apple red cabbage with a toffee brownie and Ice cream for dessert.

Member and Guest Coffee and Donuts
2025-11-06 06:00 - 09:00 | WA
Join other members for Coffee and Donuts and light conversation.
Donations requested and appreciated.

Friday morning breakfast
2025-11-07 06:00 - 09:00, 2026-03-27 06:00 - 09:00, 2026-06-19 07:30 - 09:00 | Voiture 99 Chateau, 2809 NE 78th Street, Vancouver, WA, 98665-0637, United States
Start your Friday off right.
Come to the Chateau for Friday breakfast with other members and friends.
All members and invited guests are welcome.
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U.S. Marine Corps Birthday
2025-11-10 | WA
The official birthday of the United States Marine Corps is on 10 November 1775. That was the day when the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Marines with the following decree:
That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one Colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, two majors and other officers, as usual in other regiments; that they consist of an equal number of privates as with other battalions, that particular care be taken that no persons be appointed to offices, or enlisted into said battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve for and during the present war with Great Britain and the Colonies; unless dismissed by Congress; that they be distinguished by the names of the First and Second Battalions of Marines.

Veterans Day Parade
2025-11-11 11:00 | Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Evergreen Blvd and Reserve Street, Vancouver, WA, 98661, United States
Saturday, November 11, 2025
11 am – Parade Start
Fort Vancouver National Site

The parade will take place on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Parade lineup will begin at 8:00 a.m. More detailed information will be provided in the parade packet, which will be sent out later this month. Parade entry registration is now open, and the form can be found at: www.thehistorictrust.org/lough-legacy-veterans-parade/. Simply scroll to the bottom of the page to access the entry form. The registration deadline is October 28, 2025.

37th Annual Lough Legacy Veterans Day Parade
2025-11-11 11:00 - 13:00 | Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Evergreen Blvd and Reserve Street, Vancouver, WA, 98661, United States
Saturday, November 11, 2025
11 am – Parade Start
Fort Vancouver National Site

This year marks the 37th anniversary of this community commemoration honoring all veterans. Make plans to join us as a parade participant or simply come and enjoy the event!
Following the parade stop by the Community Military Appreciation Committee (CMAC) Open House at the Pearson Airpark Hangar until 3 pm. Enjoy connecting with community organizations, lots of fun family activities and free hot dogs and other snacks.

U.S. Space Force Birthday
2025-12-20 | WA
The United States Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces and the world’s only dedicated independent space force.[8] Along with the U.S. Air Force, the Space Force is part of the Department of the Air Force, led by the secretary of the Air Force.[9] The military heads of the Space Force are the chief of space operations, who is one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and vice chief of space operations.
The Space Force is the smallest U.S. armed service, consisting of 8,600 military personnel.[1] The Space Force operates 77 spacecraft in total across various programs such as GPS, Space Fence, military satellite communications constellations, X-37B spaceplanes, U.S. missile warning system, U.S. space surveillance network, and the Satellite Control Network. Under the Goldwater–Nichols Act, the Space Force is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping space forces, which are then presented to the unified combatant commands, predominantly to United States Space Command, for operational employment.

Merry Christmas
2025-12-25 | WA

Saturday at the Chateau - is cancelled
2026-02-07 11:00 - 15:00 | Voiture 99 Chateau, 2809 NE 78th Street, Vancouver, WA, 98665-0637, United States
Saturday Lounge is cancelled. We will still be having Tom Cates Celebration of Life on Saturday at 11am. I highly suggest you come early as I am sure there will be quite a crowd.

U.S, Army Birthday
2026-06-14 | WA
The U.S. Army was founded on 14 June 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized enlistment of riflemen to serve the United Colonies for one year.
The 14 June date is when Congress adopted “the American continental army” after reaching a consensus position in The Committee of the Whole. This procedure and the desire for secrecy account for the sparseness of the official journal entries for the day. The record indicates only that Congress undertook to raise ten companies of riflemen, approved an enlistment form for them, and appointed a committee (including Washington and Schuyler) to draft rules and regulations for the government of the army. The delegates’ correspondence, diaries, and subsequent actions make it clear that they really did much more. They also accepted responsibility for the existing New England troops and forces requested for the defense of the various points in New York. The former were believed to total 10,000 men; the latter, both New Yorkers and Connecticut men, another 5,000.
At least some members of Congress assumed from the beginning that this force would be expanded. That expansion, in the form of increased troop ceilings at Boston, came very rapidly as better information arrived regarding the actual numbers of New England troops. By the third week in June delegates were referring to 15,000 at Boston. When on 19 June Congress requested the governments of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire to forward to Boston “such of the forces as are already embodied, towards their quotas of the troops agreed to be raised by the New England Colonies,” it gave a clear indication of its intent to adopt the regional army. Discussions the next day indicated that Congress was prepared to support a force at Boston twice the size of the British garrison, and that it was unwilling to order any existing units to be disbanded. By the first week in July delegates were referring to a total at Boston that was edging toward 20.000. Maximum strengths for the forces both in Massachusetts and New York were finally established on 21 and 22 July, when solid information was on hand. These were set, respectively, at 22,000 and 5,000 men, a total nearly double that envisioned on 14 June.

U.S. Coast Guard Birthday
2026-08-04 | WA
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces[7] and one of the country’s eight uniformed services. The service is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the United States military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission with jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters and a federal regulatory agency mission as part of its duties. It is the largest coast guard in the world, rivaling the capabilities and size of most navies.

Cheminot
2026-11-18 18:00 - 19:30 | Voiture 99 Boxcar Room, 2809 NE 78th Street, Vancouver, WA, 98665-0637, United States
This is an important meeting.
Dinner at 5pm with Cheminot to follow at 6pm.
Dinner 5:00pm – Cheminot 6:00pm
