New VFW commander makes history

  • VFW Post 5897 Past Commander Jason Nichols (far right) watches as Commander Gabrielle Beutler is installed Thursday night.
    VFW Post 5897 Past Commander Jason Nichols (far right) watches as Commander Gabrielle Beutler is installed Thursday night.

    By Samantha Sinclair

    Staff Writer

     

    Lavonia — Gabrielle Beutler didn’t plan to make history when she accepted the nomination to be the next commander of Lavonia’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5897.