Archive for April, 2010
8th ANNUAL RALLY FOR TROOPS
News Release (via John Kikol) for Immediate Publication:
8th ANNUAL RALLY FOR TROOPS SUNDAY IN DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND’S PUBLIC SQUARE
The 8th Annual Rally for Troops will take place on Sunday April 25, 2010 in downtown Cleveland’s Public Square. As in past years, more than 3000 motorcyclists from all over Ohio and the general public will meet in front of the Terminal Tower complex to honor Ohio’s Fallen Heroes, their families and all our veterans.
The ceremony will begin at 11:00 AM with presentation of the colors by the Wadsworth VFW. Jim Mantel of WGAR will be the Master of Ceremonies and Monica Robins of WKYC will sing the National Anthem, as she has for the past seven years. Organizer, John “KIKS” Kikol indicated that the speakers this year will include Robert Gilbert, proud father of Gy. Sgt. Robert Lee Gilbert II, KIA 3/16/2010 in Afghanistan and Lora Hall, proud sister of Lance Cpl. David R. Hall, KIA 8/31/09 in Afghanistan. The Rally will conclude with the reading of Ohio’s Fallen Heroes, 21 gun salute by the Strongsville VFW, taps and the Cleveland Firefighters Memorial Pipes and Drums playing Amazing Grace.
Free Parking is available in all Tower City and Network Parking lots for the Rally. The public is encouraged to attend and the Rally will take place regardless of the weather. There is no cost to attend and the public is encouraged to arrive around 10:00 AM to witness the procession of arriving motorcycles.
As in past years, there are a limited number of 2010 Rally for Troops pins and patches that available at Harley Davidson Sales Company of Cleveland, who also sponsors a post Rally gathering with complimentary food and entertainment from 12:30 to 3:00 PM. Proceeds and donations from the Rally will be made to the Wounded Warriors Foundation.
For more information please contact John “KIKS” Kikol at 440-263-8121 or email kiksharley@aol.com.
Organizer of Rally for Troops LLC
Organizer of Firefighters Memorial Ride LLC
Co-Organizer of Cops Ride
Organizer of Never Forget 9/11 Eastlake Ohio
Community Outreach Chair GCPOMS and the International Police Tattoo
Leathernecks MC Spaghetti Dinner Benefit
Posted by McWoodstock in Chapters, Fund Raiser, Gold Star on April 14, 2010
The Goldstar Chapter of the Leathernecks MC
Will be Hosting An ALL YOU CAN EAT
Spaghetti Dinner.
This is our first-ever, inside event!
A Spaghetti Dinner – with USMC certified chefs, deserts by the women who put the OOOOOH in OOOOORAHHH.
Raffle prizes we acquired when the Army and Navy weren’t watching.
50-50 drawing and more.
This is where the good folks will gather and share stories. Absolutely the only Italian dinner with a Dutch Chef a Lithuanian Pastry Coordinator and a Finnish overseer
– how can you miss this???
Where? Willoughby Elks Lodge 38860 Euclid Avenue . 440-942-2747 (map)
(Just west of Route 306 and across from the News Herald Building)
When? April 23rd at 1800 hours – Civilians can arrive at 6pm.
Help us do what we do best – supporting Veterans and Gold Star Families
Gold Star Chapter
Leathernecks Nation M/C OHIO
Flier can be downloaded HERE
Fallen Marine, LCpl Randy M. Heck
Visitation
Shorac Funeral Home
611 North 4th Street, Steubenville, Ohio 43952
Wednesday, April 7, 2010. 6PM to 9PM
From the Shorac Funeral Home’s website:
Lance Corporal Randy Michael Heck, 20, of Camp Lejeune, NC died Sunday, March 28, 2010 while serving his second tour of duty in Djibouti, South Africa. He was born in Tulare, CA on May 24, 1989 the son of Eugene Heck of Steubenville, OH and Teresa A. Black of Amsterdam, OH. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather Eugene Robinson.
Randy was Protestant by faith. He loved music, played the electric and base guitars. Randy also loved Harley motorcycles and spending time with his friends. In his high school years years at Elk City, Oklahoma he played sports, before moving to the Cadiz area in 2005. He was a 2007 graduate of Harrison High School where he excelled in track and football. He enlisted in the US Marines during his senior year and served his first tour of duty in Iraq.
Survived by his wife Kara J. Bell Heck and daughter Cali of Steubenville; parents; step-father Everett Black of Amsterdam, OH; four sisters Misty, Vicki, Kateland and Haily Heck; brother Austin Heck; three step-sisters Victoria and Linda Black and Stella Rawson; grandparents Frankie and Sherry Owens Bouslaugh of Carrollton, OH and Dollie Spencer of South Dakota.
Friends may call at Shorac Funeral Home, (the former McClave Funeral Home), 611 North Fourth, Steubenville on Wednesday 6-9 p.m., where funeral services will be held at 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Burial at Bloomingdale Cemetery where full military honors will be accorded.
From the DoD:
Lance Cpl. Randy M. Heck, 20, of Steubenville, Ohio, died March 28 from a non-hostile incident in Djibouti, Africa. He was assigned to 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Marine Recruits from Valley Remembered
From the news article at Vindy.com:
Three young Trumbull County men who accepted the risks that go with military service had their lives cut short instead by a traffic accident not far from their hometowns.
Zachary A. Nolen, 19, of Newton Falls; Joshua A. Sherbourne, 21, of Southington; and Michael T. Theodore Jr. , 19, of Howland died Wednesday afternoon after an accident on state Route 5 when a tractor-trailer hit the back of the car taking them to Cleveland to complete their enlistment in the Marines. They would have taken their oath today and begun boot camp in the fall.
All three men were in the back seat.
Read the full article HERE
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