Warriors at home

Jun 11, 2009

Warriors at Home

This photo was taken of us at our Welcome Home party in April of 2009.

Mar 21, 2009

Welcome Home Celebration

If you haven't mailed in your RSVP it's not too late! Get it in the mail by April 7th:)

Mar 13, 2009

Our troops all made it home safely!

Here are some links from the media on their return. We are so proud of you all!

http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090316/LOCAL12/303169953

http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/41302882.html?video=YHI&t=a

http://www.fwnews.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3&video=267

http://indianaheroes.ning.com/video/221st-welcome-home

http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/41169592.html
(click on "watch the video")

Mar 12, 2009

Welcome Home Celebration on April 18th!

If you have not received your invitation in the mail for this event, please email Warriors at Home immediately! You MUST SEND IN YOUR RSVP CARDS TO ATTEND!!!! The Marriott has to have a head count to order and prepare the meals in advance, so you cannot just show up.

Each soldier plus one guest is free. Each additional guest is $25.00. YOU MUST SEND A CHECK AND MEAL CHOICE FOR EACH GUEST WITH THE RSVP CARD!!!

More info later!

Welcome Home Celebration- Little Vegas

Bring your game face! Full-sized casino equipment and dealers will be there. Professional dealers will entertain our group, organize contests, and teach less experienced players the tricks of the trade. We are not playing for real money. Everyone will receive vouchers for chips when they check in. We are working on getting prizes donated for the winners! More details about Little Vegas to come!

DVD's & Books

If you can send me photos from the deployment by March 31st (from day they left, during deployment, day they returned, etc) I'm going to put together DVD's with slideshows of the pics and bound books to sell as a fundraiser for future events. So bring your cash or checkbook to place your order! No credit cards. Email me at warriors_at_home@yahoo.com and I'll send you my mailing addy. Thanks! Kim Ross

Welcome Home Celebration Menu:

Your choice of:

Texas Brisket
(smoked then smothered in Red River barbecue sauce)
or
Premier chicken marsala
(grilled with mushrooms and onions in marsala wine sauce)

Classic field green salad

Fresh baked dinner rolls

Fresh vegetable medley

Buttered red skin potato with parsley

New York style cheesecake with melba sauce
or
Chocolate truffle cake

Welcome Home Celebration Attire

Ladies: From dressy casual to cocktail.
Fella's: Just show up!

We will have a photographer there doing portraits for each soldier, so keep this in mind when picking out your wardrobe. Many of the girls want an excuse to dress up, so they are wearing cocktail dresses, while others are wearing slacks. The only way we'll turn you away at the door is if you are naked.

April 18t Welcome Home Party Location:

Fort Wayne Marriott on Washington Ctr Rd and Coldwater Rd (right of 69). We are in the Marquis Ballroom (the big Golfdome looking tent!). It's a beautiful, huge room that will suite our event perfectly!

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/fwain-fort-wayne-marriott/

If you'd like to book a room for the night of the party, you need to do it by April 6th. Mention the Unit's name when you call, and you get a special discounted rate!

Mar 10, 2009

Welcome Home Celebration on April 18th!

Please check back on March 12th for tons of information!

Feb 6, 2009

Fundriaser for the 221st Ordnance CO

We are getting down to the nitty gritty trying to raise last minute funds for the Welcome Home for the unit. If you come to the Coliseum Carlos Okelly's between 4-9pm on Mon, Feb 9th we will get 20% of sales in that time frame! All of that profit for us will go to their welcome home celebrations! PLEASE PASS THIS INFO ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY! We want to give our troops the celebration that they deserve! Come and eat some yummy mexican food with us and show your patriotism:)
Kim Ross

Dec 30, 2008

January 3rd Scrapbook Fundraiser...NOT TOO LATE FOR TICKETS!!!!!!!

This is THE VERY LAST ONE before our troops get home! PLEASE spread the word, and come crop those Christmas photos!!!! You can buy tickets right up until the day of the crop. Please RSVP to warriors_at_home@yahoo.com to hold your ticket so that we can get a headcount. We'll hold your ticket at the door!

Dec 9, 2008

2008 Charity Stocking Party

Our Warriors at Home gals sewed stockings for our troops and for needy children at Jason Bender's Annual Charity Stocking Party.

Nov 8, 2008

Veteran's Day Parade

Warriors at Home had a great day today! We started out walking in the Veteran's Day Parade. It was frrrrrrreezing cold, but we were very proud to represent our troops!

After the parade and a nice lunch, we went to the Apple Glen Walmart where we had a "fill-the-boot" drive to raise funds for the Welcome Home. We received $352.42 in donations in those stinky old combat boots in just over 2 hours! We We also handed out fliers for our upcoming Chik-Fil-A and Scrapbook Extravaganza Fundraisers.

Nov 5, 2008

Charity Stockings

Saturday, December 6, 6:30PM
Phone:
(260) 494-2393

We would like to invite you and your guests to our fifth annual holiday charity stocking party on Saturday, December 6, 2008. For those who haven't attended in the past, we provide all the party food, drinks, blackmail photos, and material to sew a hand-made stocking. (Yes, grown men can sew!!) You provide the manpower to create a stocking, and the toys for stuffing the stocking. Many small gifts for a child 6-10 yrs. are great. For example, baseball cards, matchbox cars, Barbie dolls, barrettes, playing cards, school supplies, just to name a few. We don't want to forget the active duty military this year, so also bring some items to make a second stocking for a local person serving oversees. For example dried fruits/nuts, gum, hard candy, wet wipes, socks, stationery w/ envelopes, CD's, playing cards, dice, dominoes, phone cards, sodoku books, etc. We will donate all the finished children's stockings to locals in need.

We will donate all the finished military stockings to "Warriors at Home" and "Blue Star Mothers" groups supporting the locally deployed soldiers of Fort Wayne. The partying will begin around 6pm, and the sewing should commence sometime thereafter. The party will last as long as your fingers do! This is a great time to get together before the holidays, and to provide a worthwhile donation to a local charity and help support our armed forces overseas. Feel free to bring your children to participate. If you are unable to attend, but are interested in donating please RSVP and Jason will respond to make arrangements. Our home is located in a development in Roanoke.

Oct 21, 2008

Scrapbook Fundraiser was a success!

Thanks to all of you who helped make our scrapbook fundraiser a success! We made $1400.00 profit! WHOO HOO!!! We had several people ask us to do another one before our soldiers return home in spring, so we are planning to do another one the end of January. Check back for details on that soon! Here is a photo and article that ran in the Sunday's issue of the Journal Gazette:)

Sep 24, 2008

Chick Fil A Fundraisers at Jefferson Pointe!!!

Thursday, September 25th and Thursday, December 11th from 5:00-7:30pm. All you have to do is show up hungry in that time frame and eat, eat, eat! 15% of the sales from that night (between 5-7:30) will go to Warriors at Home to be used at our welcome home party when the soldiers return in the spring! So help us SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!

Military Appreciation Party-Click on pic to view larger

Warriors at Home will be there. Come by our booth!

Sep 19, 2008

October 18th Scrapbook Extravaganza

This will be our last Scrapbook Fundraiser before our troops return in the spring, so we need your help! If you don't scrapbook, or can't make it the day of our event please pass the word on to your friends, families, and coworkers. We've changed things up this time, and hope that this will be our best one ever! Click on the flier to view it larger.