Gorge Heroes Club Expands Operations To The Dalles Oregon

The Gorge Hereos Club is excited to announce that we are expanding our organization to The Dalles, Oregon.  The community is invited to drop off care package items at The Dalles Oregon National Guard Armory located at Sixth and Webber Street from 9AM to 4PM, Monday thru Friday. GHC is coordinating the assembly of care packages with Lisa Bishop, the FRG Leader for The Dalles Oregon unit of the Oregon National Guard.

The first box packing is scheduled during the last weeks of October.  The date and time will be announced after our final organizational meeting October 12th.

As GHC gears up for monthly care packages for our troops, here is a list of our urgent need items. All items are requested in "Individual Size" packaging unless otherwise stated:

Hygiene Wipes

Toilet Paper

Ziploc Bags - All Sizes

Hand Sanitizer

Crackers

Cookies

Gum

Chocolate

Hard Candy

Crocheted/Knitted Stocking Caps - (Black, Dark Brown, Dark Blue or Dark Green only, please)

Fruit Bars

Granola Bars

Hot Chocolate

Hot Cider

Oatmeal

Nuts

Trail Mix

Jerky

Tootsie Pops

Tootsie Rolls

Drink Mixes

Holiday Mugs/Coffee Cups

Bubble Wrapping

Tissue Paper

Candy Canes

For more information about GHC and how you or your organization/business can help support/sponsor our troops please contact us directly at: GHC@gorge.net

Proudly,

Your GHC

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

Oregon National Guard 3-116 CAV Mobilization Ceremony Pictures

As the pictures come in from the 3-116 CAV Mobilization Ceremony we will be posting them here.  If you click on the pictures, they will appear larger in another link. 

If you would like to watch the ceremony here is a link to the event: http://www.dvidshub.net/tags/video/mobilization-ceremony

Soldiers with the Oregon Army National Guard's 3-116 Cavalry color guard take part in a mobilization ceremony at Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande, Ore., Sept. 21. More than 600 Oregon Guard Members will join Soldiers from Idaho and Montana for a one-year deployment to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nick Choy, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs Office).

Members of the mounted Cavalry watch as Soldiers with the Oregon Army National Guard's 3-116 Cavalry take part in a mobilization ceremony at Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande, Ore., Sept. 21. The more than 600 Oregon Guard Members will join Soldiers from Idaho and Montana for a one-year deployment to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nick Choy, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs Office).

Soldiers with the Oregon Army National Guard's 3-116 Cavalry color guard take part in a mobilization ceremony at Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande, Ore., Sept. 21. More than 600 Oregon Guard Members will join Soldiers from Idaho and Montana for a one-year deployment to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nick Choy, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs Office).

Oregon Governor Theodore Kulongoski presents Oregon Army National Guard Lt. Col. Phillip Appleton with the Oregon State flag during the mobilization ceremony for the 3-116 Cavalry at Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande, Ore., Sept. 21. It is customary for Oregon units to fly the state flag above their Forward Operating Base in their deployed location, and as a tradition, Kulongoski presents the state flag to their commander at their mobilization ceremony. More than 600 Oregon Guard Members will join Soldiers from Idaho and Montana for a one-year deployment to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nick Choy, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs Office).

Oregon Governor Theodore Kulongoski greets Soldiers from 3-116 Cavalry following the unit’s mobilization ceremony at Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande, Ore., Sept. 21. More than 600 Oregon Guard Members will join Soldiers from Idaho and Montana for a one-year deployment to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn. Kulongoski is serving his last term as Governor of Oregon and the Commander in Chief of the Oregon National Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nick Choy, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs Office).

Soldiers with the Oregon Army National Guard's 3-116 Cavalry take part in a mobilization ceremony at Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande, Ore., Sept. 21. Friends, family members and fellow Oregon National Guard members packed the university's football stadium for the event, which was followed by a parade through downtown LaGrande. More than 600 Oregon Guard Members will join Soldiers from Idaho and Montana for a one-year deployment to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nick Choy, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs Office).

Friends, family members and well-wishers await Soldiers with the Oregon Army National Guard's 3-116 Cavalry following a mobilization ceremony at Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande, Ore., Sept. 21. Thousands packed the university's football stadium for the event, which was followed by a parade through downtown LaGrande. More than 600 Oregon Guard Members will join Soldiers from Idaho and Montana for a one-year deployment to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nick Choy, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs Office).

Proudly,

Your GHC

Oregon National Guard - Hood River & The Dalles Deployment Information

The Oregon National Guard’s 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry, a part of the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat team, leaves Tuesday for a two-month training stint at Camp Shelby, Miss. The 3rd Battalion, which headquarters are in La Grande, consists of units from Ontario, Baker City, La Grande, Pendleton, Hermiston, The Dalles and Hood River. A total of 517 unit members will be deploying - 140 from The Dalles and 40 from Hood River, Oregonal National Guard units.

For a complete details of the deployment and the ceremony, please visit this link:
http://www.lagrandeobserver.com/News/Local-News/Big-send-off-set-Tuesday-for-3/116

There will be a LIVE feed of the ceremony. Here is the link: http://www.eousports.com/

The Gorge Heroes Club and community members will be meeting in front of  The Dalles Chronicle building in The Dalles, Oregon between 3AM and 3:30AM on Tuesday morning, Sept 21 to give our heroes a community send off and show our thanks for their commitment to our freedoms.  Please come and line the streets to show your support for our deploying heroes.

Here are some pictures from The Dalles Oregon National Guard Pre-Deployment Party at the Eagles Lodge in The Dalles:

The Dalles Oregon National Guard Unit and their families at the Pre-Deployment Party.

As pictures come in, we will be updating this post.

Proudly,
Your GHC

GHC Featured On "Localite" CGN 7 Television

The Gorge Heroes Club was recently featured on the television show "Localite" hosted by Jonn Crompton.  You can view the complete 30 minute episode by following this link:

http://www.localite.com/2010/07/gorge-heroes-club-2/

We appreciate your support.  Thank you!

Columbia Gorge Magazine Features GHC!

The Gorge Heroes Club would like to thank Matt Werbach for his great article about our organization that appeared in the Fall 2010 edition of Columbia Gorge Magazine, which is on stands now. We thank you and our heroes thank you!

Here is a link to another great article about GHC:

http://columbiagorge.com/matts-column/a-little-perspective/

 

Sponsor A Care Package For Only $12 A Month!

At 5:30PM on the fourth Wednesday of the month, The Gorge Heroes Club meets at the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum in Hood River to put together care packages for the deployed military residents of the Mid-Columbia region. We need items from the care package page link here: http://gorgeheroesclub.blogspot.com/p/care-package-supply-list.html  and we can also use donations to defer the cost of shipping the boxes month-to-month.

No time to shop? Heroes Club has started a program that will allow you to purchase a care package for a $12.00 donation to the club. The care package will be sent in your name, your company's name or your organizations name.... How easy it that?

Your tax deductible contributions can be sent to:

Gorge Heroes Club

1767 12th St. #113

Hood River, Oregon 97031

Or, you can contribute through our donation link on the right side of this blog.

For more information, please contact: gorgeheroesclub@yahoo.com
Our Heroes thank you!