Amanda Roederer is flanked by Veterans of Foreign Wars, Cpl. Matthew A. Commons Memorial Post 36, officers Mark Westrich, left, and former Nevada VFW commander Bob Garlow, right, as she accepts a wooden hobby horse at the group’s holiday party on Dec. 5. “You made my Christmas,” Roederer remarked after winning the toy in the post’s raffle. She plans to give the gift to her 2-year-old nephew.