Friday, September 24, 2010

September GHC Box Packing For Our Heroes Highlights

The members of The Gorge Heroes Club met this past Wednesday at WAAAM, the Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum in Hood River, Oregon for our September box packing.  Here are some pictures of our fun!  (If you click on each picture, they will appear larger in another screen)

The Gorge Heroes Club members and community visitors who stopped by to sign cards to our heroes.  Each care package includes a personalized card made by our GHC Cards Team. 

Here GHC members are preparing the homemade cookies that our baking team made.  They were shipped to the deploying Oregon National Guard 3-116 CAV unit now at Camp Shelby, Miss.  Your cookies are on the way as promised! 

Some of the care package items that were donated by various community members to GHC for our monthly care packages.  We thank you and our troops thank you!
Members of the GHC sewing team, Roberta Clayton (standing) and Crystal Rau going over the final pattern selection for this year's Christmas stockings for our troops. 

GHC members and community supporters hand signed personal messages and "Thanks" to one of our wounded heroes.  The quilt was made by our GHC sewing team.

Lilly and Desiree Almarez stopped by sign a "special card" just for their hero, their Dad - Oregon National Guard member SGT Carlos Almaraz - member of the 3-116 CAV from The Dalles, Oregon.

GHC members along with community visitors putting together care packages for their heroes. 


What fun... it is just like Christmas filling these boxes... "What to choose?  What to choose?".....

GHC members putting the final touches on the care packages before sealing them.

Artwork on the outside of Oregon National Guard member SGT Carlos Almaraz - compliments of his daughter Lilly. 

Sisters Lily and Desiree Almarez proudly display the box they put together for their dad, SGT Carlos Almaraz - complete with personal notes and hard drawings on all sides of the box. 

The Gorge Heroes Club holds our monthly box packing's the fourth Wednesday of each  month, 5:30PM at WAAAM in Hood River, Oregon . 

GHC will be setting up a monthly box packing in The Dalles, Oregon starting in October. Please check back for finalized dates and times.

GHC has set up drop off points for care package items at the following locations:

WAAAM off Tucker Road - Hood River, Oregon Open 7 days per week, 9AM to 5PM

Windermere Glenn Taylor - Bingen Washington - Open Mon- Sat 9AM to 5PM

The Gorge Heroes Club is a 501 (c) (3) non profit organization.  So, all your donations are tax deductible.

If you would like to find out about our adoption program, please drop us a line at ghc@gorge.net

Proudly,

Your GHC