09/30/2026
🙏 We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the community organizations, partners, and visitors who joined us for our very first Veterans Mental Health Awareness Ruck Event. Your presence, your energy, and your compassion helped make this day an incredible success.
🚶♀️🚶♂️This event wasn’t just about miles walked—though we proudly trekked together in solidarity for veterans’ mental health awareness. It was also about the connections formed along the way. We hope that through out the ruck, neighbors met neighbors, veterans met supporters, and conversations opened doors to understanding, encouragement, and hope. On our end, the sense of unity felt throughout the morning was truly inspiring.
🐾🐕🐈 Additionally, thank you to everyone who filled their packs or brought items to contributed to the animal shelter food donations. Your generosity meant so much, and these contributions will have a real impact on animals in our local shelters. It was beautiful to see care for our veterans paired with compassion for our four‑legged community members as well.
💛 The support offered—whether through participation, donations, or simply showing up—echoed loud and clear: our veteran's matter, their mental health matters, and this community is here to walk beside them every step of the way.
Thank you for making our first event one to remember. We look forward to many more opportunities to come together, uplift one another, and keep moving forward—mile by mile.
