Fore! Nev. tourney collecting clubs for troops
By Scott Sonner - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Jun 4, 2009 14:28:17 EDT
RENO, Nev. — Officials for the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open and a local insurance company who launched an effort last week to collect new and used golf clubs for U.S. soldiers overseas say they’ve already gathered dozens of full sets.
“The response has been unbelievable,” said Michael Stearns, director of the PGA Tour tournament.
“We have 30 bags with full sets and over 50 sets of irons. We’ve even got two pairs of golf shoes,” he said Thursday.
The tournament is sponsoring the Clubs for Armed Forces program along with KKOH radio and Employers Insurance Co., a Reno-based group of companies providing workers’ compensation insurance and services to small businesses.
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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/06/ap_military_clubs_4_forces_060409/
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Florida golfers with extra clubs needed for troops
If they can do it in Navada don't you think Florida can do better? We have more veterans here and I'm sure we must have more golfers too.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Army Staff Sgt. Dan Nevins Wounded Warrior
This is a great story on how Wounded Warrior Project is helping the veterans and a true testament of the spirit our soldiers have. A uniform didn't make him a hero, he was born that way. We were just lucky he wanted to serve. Makes you want to make sure they all get the same kind of attention and help.
The Wounded Warrior Project helped him get back on his feet.
By MAGGIE FITZROY, The Times-Union
When doctors amputated his left leg after a bomb blast in Iraq, Army Staff Sgt. Dan Nevins thought he'd never run, ski or ride waves on a wakeboard again.
But then, one day in 2005, a Wounded Warrior Project representative visited him in his hospital room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to invite him on a ski trip. Nevins agreed, even though he thought it was "crazy."
Wounded Warrior is a Jacksonville-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing programs and services to severely injured service men and women.
It demonstrated to Nevins that, with his new prosthetic leg, he could do many activities he used to do. Run, snowboard down a mountain, ride a bicycle for miles.
After Nevins left the Army, moved to Jacksonville with his wife, Nicole, and landed a job at the PGA Tour, he helped support the Wounded Warrior Project.
On Jan. 23, after several years of chronic pain and recurring bone infections, doctors at Walter Reed removed Nevins' other leg below the knee.
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http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/021408/met_246691005.shtml
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Dan Nevins, who was badly injured in Iraq, can now play golf - a sport he learned with the help of the Wounded Warrior Project.
The Wounded Warrior Project helped him get back on his feet.
By MAGGIE FITZROY, The Times-Union
When doctors amputated his left leg after a bomb blast in Iraq, Army Staff Sgt. Dan Nevins thought he'd never run, ski or ride waves on a wakeboard again.
But then, one day in 2005, a Wounded Warrior Project representative visited him in his hospital room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to invite him on a ski trip. Nevins agreed, even though he thought it was "crazy."
Wounded Warrior is a Jacksonville-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing programs and services to severely injured service men and women.
It demonstrated to Nevins that, with his new prosthetic leg, he could do many activities he used to do. Run, snowboard down a mountain, ride a bicycle for miles.
After Nevins left the Army, moved to Jacksonville with his wife, Nicole, and landed a job at the PGA Tour, he helped support the Wounded Warrior Project.
On Jan. 23, after several years of chronic pain and recurring bone infections, doctors at Walter Reed removed Nevins' other leg below the knee.
go here for the rest
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/021408/met_246691005.shtml
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