Community

Gig Harbor Peninsula FISH Food Bank & Community Services Has a New Home

Gig Harbor Peninsula FISH Food Bank & Community Services moved into their new location at 4303 Burnham Drive in Gig Harbor. The 11,600 square foot facility provides FISH with plenty of space for  grocery shopping, a separate area for clothing and household items, space for private client meetings and ample warehouse space for food storage and other items. GHP FISH Food Bank & Community Services serves 11 zip codes across the Key Peninsula. In addition to food and clothing, they provide educational support and access to many other community resources.

Click the link below to download a video that captures the construction of the building from start to finish.

FINAL VIDEO Bldg Completion

Click the link below to watch the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony :

https://www.wapatriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ghp-fish-grand-opening-of-our-new-building.mp4

WA Patriot would like to thank Katherine Cummings for creating and sharing both the Ribbon Cutting and the Building Creation videos.

Making Wishes Come True

WA Patriot has partnered with Make-A-Wish, Alaska & Washington to adopt the wish of 7-year-old SiddaLee to swim with dolphins at Discovery Cove in Florida. SiddaLee was diagnosed at 6 months old with stage 4 kidney disease. Despite having to endure hundreds of therapies, maintaining a special diet and undergoing dialysis, she remains an all-around happy, rainbow loving girl! She received a kidney in 2019 and is now able to enjoy a wide variety of foods.

WA Patriot is grateful for organizations like Make-A-Wish whose sole purpose is to serve children who are battling a critical illness. Making wishes come true can give children like SiddaLee and their families the chance to believe anything is possible!

Serving Those Who Serve Others

The WA Patriot team rallied again in support of the Tacoma Rescue Mission by helping them on December 8, 2021 with their lunch prep and service at the Main Campus on So. Tacoma Way. WA Patriot is proud to support such an amazing organization that focuses on the homeless crisis we are facing in our community and our country – and that includes Veterans. They have a Veterans Resource Center located at the Downtown Campus, which provides direct service, assistance and guidance to our community’s homeless veterans who are in need of shelter and food. TRM links them with needed services while offering support and encouragement, and has a 10-bed dorm reserved just for them that has been full since the day it opened. TRM partners with the US Veteran’s Affairs Administration to make these services available to our Veterans.

WA Patriot Supports Peace of Love Cookie Company

WA Patriot enjoyed some delicious custom cookies featuring our logo icon, compliments of Peace of Love Cookie Co. in Virginia. Its owner, Ella, is a remarkably talented and inspiring young lady who is making a difference with every cookie she sells. Her business donates 10% of the profits to SPARC, a performing arts school in Richmond, VA for children with or without disabilities. We are grateful and proud to help Ella serve her community by supporting her business. We encourage you to watch the video linked below about what Ella does and why. This girl is truly amazing, and so are her cookies!

https://fb.watch/9UxrYctQcP/

WA Patriot Celebrates Our Partnership with Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington

WA Patriot is honored to have been part of granting seven-year-old Penny’s wish to have an accessible sport court. With this wish, Penny and her twin have a chance to play wheelchair basketball—one of their favorite hobbies—together in their backyard. This is the fourth wish that WA Patriot has granted together with @MakeAWishAKWA, who has been granting local wishes for 35 years. We look forward to many more years of wish-granting with this amazing organization!

 

WA Patriot’s Continuing Support of the Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation: Swing For A Soldier, Prayer Breakfast, Race For A Soldier, Pull For A Soldier

This year, as part of our ongoing support of the Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation, WA Patriot teams participated in various foundation events to raise awareness and funding, and to come together as a community and support our veterans and first responders. We played in the Swing For A Soldier golf tournament in July, attended the Prayer Breakfast in September, participated in the Race For A Soldier event with some team members running the race and others setting up traffic control throughout the race course, and we competed in the Pull For A Soldier event in October. As a veteran-owned company with several veteran employees, WA Patriot holds the mission of the Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation near and dear to our hearts.

WA Patriot Joins Gig Harbor’s Adopt-A-Road Program

Earlier this month, WA Patriot took part in the City of Gig Harbor’s Adopt-A-Road program as part of our commitment to SERVE our community. The goal of the program is to make Gig Harbor the best and cleanest community in our area by reducing roadside litter, and to build civic pride in a litter-free city road system. Many thanks to our volunteers who took a few hours of their afternoon to remove litter on Peacock Hill, from Vernhardson Street to 112th Street. WA Patriot will continue to serve the Gig Harbor community with volunteer teams scheduled four times per year to help maintain clean roads throughout the city.

Click here to learn how you and your organization can participate in this citywide litter control program.

WA Patriot Employees SERVE at Tacoma Rescue Mission

On Friday, March 12, WA Patriot employees participated in Tacoma Rescue Mission’s lunch service. They helped prepare and serve lunch for Friday’s service, and also prepped breakfast for Saturday. Our team is passionate about supporting Tacoma Rescue Mission (TRM) and we always enjoy serving together. To learn more about TRM and their mission to bring help to those who need it most, visit their website at www.trm.org.

 

WA Patriot Hosts Blood Drive

On Friday October 16, WA Patriot hosted a blood drive for Cascade Regional Blood Services. Our drive did exceptionally well, with 13 participants and 13 units collected – 100% of our goal! We are happy to say that those 13 units of blood, once processed, produced 39 blood products for local hospitals. I want to thank all who participated from the WA Patriot team, and also to thank the Cascade Regional Blood Services group for their commitment to helping our community. For information on how you can donate, you can go to www.crbs.net to find a mobile close to you. NOTE: They are also at Albertsons Gig Harbor North every Monday from 12-6:30 pm.

Way to go TEAM WA PATRIOT!

Serving our Community: Tacoma Rescue Mission

On December 17, WA Patriot volunteers showed their support for the Tacoma Rescue Mission by helping prepare meals and serve lunch to many homeless and low income people in the community. Prep work included peeling two bushels of apples and 50 pounds of potatoes, stocking supplies, dicing vegetables and other miscellaneous tasks. WA Patriot is passionate about supporting the Mission in their devotion to provide life-changing services to the hurting and homeless in Tacoma and Pierce County. Their accomplishments this past year included 304,556 meals served at a rate of approximately 834 meals per day. To learn more about Tacoma Rescue Mission and what they do, or to volunteer, please visit them at http://www.trm.org.