In early December, the Parker area community sent dozens of care packages to Afghanistan in the Christmas for the Troops program. These emails were received since the packages arrived in the war zone. We’ll add any others that come in below. Hello everyone! My name is 1SG Darryl Harris and I am currently away from home right now on deployment with …

The Parker Lions with BlueWater Cinemas will present a second screening of A Warm Wind. All monies will go to Christmas for the Troops and is a great way to contribute. Tickets are $5.00 each. The presentation will be on Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. One attendee at the movie will walk away $50.00 richer. A $50.00 donation …

On Saturday November 12, 2011, I had the opportunity to M/C the Veterans Day parade with Keith Moses from BlueWater Cinemas. I then went to the BlueWater Casino where I was the featured speaker for the event. After my presentation, the family of Thomas Claw, Navajo Code Talker made a presentation to me of a Pendleton Code Talker Blanket. It …

The Parker Lions with the help of the Parker Area Tourism Office has requested that the 29 Palms Marine Corps. Band come to Parker for a concert.  We will let you know as this develops.  We hope to utilize the BlueWater Resort and Casino amphitheater.  This will depend on the availability of the site and when the band would be …

For those of you that have taken part in Christmas for the Troops and our 4th of July shipment, thank you very much.  To those that helped pack the boxes with the goodies for the Troops, well done.  A special thank you to our friends at Dumas Walker.  Not only did they provide baked goods to be sent to the …

The Parker Lions Christmas for the Troops program is scheduling a shipment of baked goods to Afghanistan. We will be shipping baked goods to our troops for the 4th of July.  We want to bring a little bit of home to them and remind them they are in our thoughts and prayers. Our packaging date will be June 22nd.  So we need your baked items …

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has requested the flags at all buildings and facilities of the State of Arizona be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in honor of Captain Nathan J. Nylander.  Capt. Nylander was assigned to the 25th Operational Weather Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, and was killed in action April 27, …

You may have noticed that flags are at half mast on your way around this morning.  Governor Brewer has requested the flags be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Friday, April 15, 2011, in honor of Sergeant Christian A.S. Garcia, United States Army.  Sgt. Garcia died on April 2, 2011, in Babil, Iraq, of injuries sustained from indirect …

Captain Mei-Ling Fye at US Army Forward Operating Base Wilson in Afghanistan expresses thanks for Parker’s Christmas for the Troops program in her latest newsletter email: “We just got over 100 boxes for our Soldiers from a community in Arizona who came together and packed boxes for us! We’ll do a story on that for the next newsletter! Thank you …