Sunday, April 11, 2010
The Channel Island Carvers are relatively new to the Eagle Cane Program but have been very busy providing canes. Mary Anderson wrote that they had completed 12 and the picture shows them working on more.
In the middle group of pictures you find Ray Barger presenting a cane to SFC Bob Wilson- a club member who served in the Navy from 1943 to 1947, he was wounded and received the Purple Heart on June 11, l944. Bob joined the Army next and served in that branch from 1947 to 1953. Ray, an accomplished bird carver, has been helping the group get a handle on carving the eagle head used on the canes (canes from the group can be viewed on the “Photos” page of the web site.)
In the group picture, Gary Hensley, third from the left holding a cane has overcome a serious visual impairment (he is legally blind) to participate in the cane program.
Alan Plasch, not pictured, manages the cane program for the Channel Island carvers.
Some of the Channel Island Carvers, Ventura, CA. L-R: Marty Wells, Patricia Kreider, Gary Hensley, Lou Espinoza, Manuel Morales Jr., Mary & Roger Anderson, and Bob Pettit.
SFC Bob Willson holding his cane by Ray Barger, Channel Island Carver. To the right, Bob Willson with his Memory Board.
Mary and Roger Anderson are a team, Roger carves and paints while Mary chip carves. Above: Memorial Plates for the families of the Vets mentioned on the cane at the right.
