VFW Post looks for new home

For the first time in decades, members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 497 in Havre do not have their own club in which to relax, hold functions and conduct their organization's business.

Post Commander Bill Bilger said the Havre VFW Club closed a few weeks ago, after failed attempts over several years to raise enough business to pay the mortgage.

"We were trying everything we could think of for several years," Bilger said. "They would work for a while, then people would quit coming in again.

"We didn't expect it to come to this, but that's the way it goes, I guess," he added.

Bilger s...