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Huerfano Hometown Heroes
Local People Honoring Local Soldiers
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Our Mission:
Huerfano Hometown Heroes recognizes and honors local men and women serving us and our country by increasing awareness of those actively serving in the military from this area and providing opportunities to encourage them through postcards, notes and needed/wanted items to deployed soldiers, their units and platoons.
About Us:
Huerfano County is located in Southern Colorado at the foot of the spectacular Spanish Peaks. It includes the towns of Walsenburg, LaVeta, Cuchara and Gardner. Family, friends, neighbors and interested residents have gathered to support our deployed and active duty troops to remind them how grateful we are for what they do for us.
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Meeting News
Spear headed by Juanita Bailey, the first monthly meeting was held 7-14-09 to organize and
plan a letter writing campaign and gift box delivery to troops whose families reside in our
communities. It is a wonderful way to let the home town men and women know they are
kept in our hearts and minds while they are away from home.
If you would like to make a difference, jump up off the couch or take a breather from your hectic
life for an hour and come join us!
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2-20-10 Mr. Clifford Boxley, District Commander of the American Legion, was our guest speaker. He gave us ideas and direction for reaching out to area groups interested in supporting our troops.
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3-20-10 A great turnout of supporters boxed up 16 packages of goodies and letters for our troops.
Mrs. Huff's class from LaVeta wrote wonderful letters of appreciation to add to each box.
Gary and Charlene Baldwin hauled the van full of goods to the Walsenburg Post Office where Tom and Anthony are our faithful postmen in waiting. Thanks guys!
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4-17-10 Meeting to discuss upcoming summer events and fundraisers.
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5-16-10 Packed up boxes to send to five deployed soldiers. Decided to meet next month at the LaVeta School cafeteria to make clay beads with Mary Copeland. As a fundraiser, we will sell the hand crafted jewelry at the LaVeta Art in the Park event.
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7-3-10 Participated in LaVeta's Independance Day Parade. Joined by the 1st Cavalry Division
Association's Purple Heart Float from Lamar, we had a Huerfano Hometown Heroes float full of local veterans and a youth mounted color guard from Journey Home Learning Center.
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9-18-10 Packed up boxes and mailed to deployed troops.
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10-16-10 Potluck lunch meeting. Watched the movie "The Way We Get By" about veterans who
greet deployed service men and women at the Deleware airport.
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1-15-11 Packed up boxes to send to deployed troops. Discussed the cookbook project as a fundraiser.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Summer meetings: 4th Tuesday of every month at 5:30 pm.
1018 W 7th St., Walsenburg (Journey Home)
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
•Huerfano Hometown Heroes Meeting -
5:30 pm, Journey Home (Adventure Trail), 1018 W 7th, Walsenburg, Colorado.
EVERYONE in the community is welcome.
Please let us know if you know of anyone deployed with connections to this area.
We want to include everyone.
Wanted items by the troops: (SEALED) Jerky, shelled seeds & nuts, gum, candy,
chocolate candy, fruit roll-ups, granola bars, crackers.
You may drop off items beforehand at the following locations:
Adventure Trail, 1018 West 7th, Walsenburg, Colorado 10am-5pm Tues - Sat.
Grandpa & Grandma's, West 7th, Walsenburg, Colorado
Community Banks of Colorado, 401 Main St., LaVeta, Colorado
Thanks to all!
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Huerfano Hometown Heroes will be sending boxes to our deployed on July 26th. Please take a couple minutes to write a cheery note of encouragement and appreciation to our troops who are in harm's way. It means more than you can imagine! We will mail it for you.
Cameron
Shane
Andrew
Cheyenne
Henry
Dustin
Nathan
Matthew
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill
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What you can do:
♥ write a letter or card to a soldier - we will mail it
• drop letters in the Hometown Heroes box at
LaVeta Library
Charlie's Grocery (Main St., LaVeta)
Grandpa & Grandma's (Main St., LaVeta)
Community Banks of Colorado (Main St., LaVeta)
Saint Benedict Episcopal Mission (113 W Field St., LaVeta)
Adventure Trail (1018 W 7th, Walsenburg)
Huerfano Community Bible Church (Walsenburg)
Spanish Peaks Library District (Walsen Ave., Walsenburg)
♥ attend a meeting (third Saturday of every month)
Journey Home, 1018 W. 7th, Walsenburg
1 p.m.
♥ help with postage
♥ come to a bake sale, buy a brownie, or bake something for sale
♥ provide us with your deployed loved one's info if you would like us to send them a gift box and cards of appreciation.
♥ donate items to mail to troops (we have a list)
♥ for more info, email Juanita at baileysdoublej@yahoo.com or
Charlene at GLBCEB@msn.com or
huerfanohometownheroes@yahoo.com
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