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Young Marines assist Red Cross (Article featured in The Californian, March 25, 2009)
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On March 21, 2009, the Wildomar Young Marines helped stuff approximately 540 backpacks while assisting the Riverside Chapter of the American Red Cross and Operation Military Kid. There were three different backpacks, one for young girls, one for young boys, and a third for older kids (age 9 to 18). The Wildomar Young Marines arrived at the Red Cross facility shortly after 9:00 am with 25 Young Marines not counting adult staff. The Young Marines were quickly tasked to building backpacks, moving materials and ultimately loading vehicles with the finished product. In addition to the building backpacks, the Young Marines (along with Commanding officer Bill McDonald and Executive Officer Scott Sandler) all recorded a video message directed at the children of military families who have one or both parents deployed. Many of the Young Marines also wrote a number of letters to children of military families as well.
While operation Military Kids and the Riverside Red Cross originally asked for volunteers to come and help between the hours of 9:00 am and 1:00 pm, with the help of the Young Marines, all of the backpacks were stuffed by about 10:30 am. This left time for the Young Marines to take a short tour of the Red Cross facility, learn about the types of things the agency responds to and the equipment they use. We were also reminded about how important remembering to support the Red Cross before a disaster strikes is.
While the primary objective of the Young Marines is to reduce youth drug use; community service and support of our nation’s military are also core to our values. The idea of having the kids of our unit helping other kids proved to be a very rewarding experience.
The backpacks that were prepared are intended for delivery to Army Reserve, and Marine Corp families in Southern California, who have recently deployed or will be deployed in April, The Month of the Military Child.Wildomar Young Marines graduate new class (Article featured in The Valley News . February 27, 2009) Special Thanks to Rocky Salmon for writing the article.
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Bike Safety - On May 10, 2008 The Wildomar Young Marines helped the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts distribute Bike Helmets at the Bicycle Rodeo. Click here to see an article written by Nelsy Rodriguez of The Californian for more information regarding the event.
Wildomar Young Marines serve pancakes to rebuild old Post 1508 (Article featured in The Californian. March 29 2008) Special Thanks to Nelsy Rodriguez for writing the article.
Wildomar Young Marines program prepares tomorrow's leaders (Article featured in Riverside County Press Enterprise. March 13 2008) Special thanks to Hope Pierson writing the article.
The Wildomar Young Marines are deeply saddened as the VFW Post 1508
was recently damaged in a fire. At this time it looks like the
Young Marines will be able to continue to hold drill at the post as
the damage was limited to the front half of the building. For
more information about the fire click the following link:
VFW Fire (PE.COM)
Once again the Wildomar Voice was nice enough to attend one of our special events. They took some grate photo of our Feb. 2008 Graduation ceremony and have posted them to their website. Click here to see a great slide show and a copy of the Graduation of Program.
Special Thanks to the Wildomar Voice for attending our Christmas Party and Toys for Tots drive on December 15th. The Wildomar Voice was nice enough to post a slide show of photos on their website. Click here to see the slide show. Our Young Marines collected approx. 50 to 60 toys, which were presented to representatives of the United States Marine Corp who also attended the event.
On November 17th the Wildomar Young Marines marched in the Lake Elsinore "Unity in the Community" parade along with the Wildomar Elk's Lodge.