Support Joanie's advocacy for The Highground
Pledges due by July 27
Dear Friends and Family,
First of all, thank you for all the past support, and I hope you will support me once again. I have been bike riding to raise funds to support “The Highground Veterans Memorial Park” for over 30 years. The Highground Veterans Memorial Park, in Neillsville, is a place of honor and serves as a healing place for all veterans and all families. Our ride will be to help support people with PTSD (see attached information sheet).
NEW this year… I will be doing the ride a new way, via a support vehicle because I am having bone spur foot surgery in June. So, my left foot will be good to drive a car and provide support to the riders. I will be able to drive but not pedal.
You all know why I support the Highground. The Highground is a very special site, designed as an outdoor healing place for all Veterans. It started as a promise, a promise from one Veteran to another who was dying in the fields of Vietnam, a promise to remember. Then that solider did just that. Born of an idea to memorialize his friend fallen in a battlefield in Vietnam, Tom Miller rode his bike all around Wisconsin to raise awareness, with his goal to develop a special place for Veterans. And so, the Highground came to be…a place of tribute for all Veterans.
The Highground is recognized as Wisconsin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This place is privately funded and is a non-profit organization, grassroots effort. It is a place for everyone to come for healing and remembrance. I am not the best at describing this place but they do have a web site. It is www.thehighground.us Check out their web site for the best information.
AGAIN… I am inviting YOU to come with me as a rider or “ride supporter.” The northern route will be leaving Hayward on Friday, August 4, 2023, on to Ladysmith, and finishing on Sunday August 6, at the Highground. If you want to pedal along with, just call northern route coordinators: Mike & Kathy Gleisner – 715-937-6786 mike.gleisner@hotmail.com .
Simply fill out the attached SPONSOR sheet and mail it to me. Please make a check out to “The Highground.” … OR…
OR there is an electronic donation site. Go to:
https://thehighgroundpark.givingfuel.com/crowd/2023-heroes-ride-northern-route-peer-to-peer
Next select “FIND a FUNDRAISER PAGE” next select my name and donate there.
We need to turn in all pledges by July 27. If you want me to ride for a specific person or a Veteran, just send me the name and tell me the story. I proudly have told a lot of people the stories behind the names.
Please, stop by the Highground, on State Highway 10, just west of Neillsville, (W7031 Ridge Road, PO Box 457, Neillsville, WI 54456, phone 715-743-4224).
Again, thank-you very much,
Joan Cervenka