Join Fast Friends And Support The Soldiers Home Sand Dunes Poker Run- May 17
Many local organizations come together to sponsor this event with all proceeds going to the Homelake Veterans resident fund. The poker run starts off at the Colorado State Veterans Center at Homelake, after the flag raising ceremony at 9:00am, run sign up starts at 8:00 am, 15 bucks a hand and that includes lunch. After the poker run, join Fast Friends of Colorado, downtown Monte Vista, at Fullenwider Park for a picnic/cruise night. Fast Friends will be selling cheap, burgers and dogs starting at 5 pm, then cruising all night long. Sounds like a good time to me, and helping out the Homelake Veterans is priceless!
For more info on the Poker Run call (719) 852-8225 or email here
Check out Fast Friends Cruise Night for other updates, as we ride from spring to summer
Some Homelake History; Established in the San Luis Valley in 1889, the Colorado State Veterans Center at Homelake, also referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Home, provided a peaceful place for aging and displaced Civil War veterans. This continuously operated complex is the oldest veterans’ center in the state and contains more than eighty structures. A cemetery with headstones in concentric circles surrounds a 1912 monument dedicated to veterans of the Civil and Spanish-American Wars; veterans of every major conflict from the Civil War to the current war in Iraq are buried there.
