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Stryker Brigade Welcome Home Version 2.0

OpBBQ welcomed home the 3/2 Stryker Brigade with a BBQ for 5,000 on 11/22/04 Details Here.  This was the first ever combat tour for a Stryker unit.  The 3/2 is wrapping up its second and much harder tour in Iraq.  We are at about 90% (as of 10/08/07) of the $12,000 we'll need to buy food.    The BBQ is scheduled for October 11th. Donation needed by October 9th.  Yes the number to feed was increased by the Army at the last minute from 5,000 to 6,000.

Thank You For Your Help!
All Cash Donors Large and Small
Stubbs Midday's on KMPS
Kirby & Co. KVI
Monroe WA. Chamber of Commerce
Tim's Cascade Snacks & Nalley's
(both divisions of Birds Eye Foods)
Sunbacker Fiberglass
Thermo King Northwest
Anonymous Bun Company
Two Loose Screws BBQ ~ Jim Minion
Teddy Bear's BBQ, Duvall, WA~Konrad & Phyllis Haskins

The 3^rd “Stryker” Brigade 2^nd Infantry Division
Came home after a hard year in Iraq.  The volunteers, sponsors and donors of Operation BBQ Northwest welcomed them home with a BBQ for 5,000 on November 22nd 2004. This was our way of saying “Thank You” for their service and “Welcome Home”.  As time permits we will add more narrative.

Links Official 3/2 Website  & Stryker News

Contents

• Pictures

  • Welcome Home 3/2 Stryker Brigade

  • Beef It's What's for Dinner

  • The Volunteers includes copmplete list

• News

• Donors & Sponsors

Menu

• BBQ Beef
  2,500 pounds of Chuck Roll cooked low and slow over charcoal and wood with BBQ rub served on 5,000 Buns.

• Coleslaw
  30 Cases of diced Cabbage and 32 gallons of Coleslaw dressing.

• Potato Chips
  9,500 Bags of potato chips made with Washington Potatoes.

• Ice Cream, Brownies and Toppings
  156 Gallons of Ice Cream, 5,000 Brownies and 12 #10 Cans of Ice Cream Toppings

• Soda
  5,000+ Cans & Bottles of Soda

Pictures

More Pictures & Story to Follow (Click on Thumbnails to Enlarge)
Please send requests for hi resolutions pictures and prints to konrad@opbbq.com please include "Ref:"

Welcome Home 3/2 Stryker Brigade

Ladies of Wicked Baking Co. Monroe, WA Serving Brownies Ref: SB20	Ladies of Wicked Baking Co. Monroe, WA Serving Brownies Ref: SB21	Chow Line Ref: SB29	Chow Line Ref: SB53	Dawn's Food Toppings on Schwan's Ice Cream Ref: SB55
Chow Line Ref: SB54	Amelia Haskins putting Dawn's Food Toppings on Schwan's Ice Cream Ref: SB57	Soda & Dawn's Food Toppings on Schwan's Ice Cream Ref: SB35	Chow Line Ref: SB39	5,000 Buns thawing from an anonymous donor Ref: SB34
3/2 Stryker Brigade Troops Ref: SB28	3/2 Stryker Brigade Troops Ref: SB24	3/2 Stryker Brigade Troops Ref: SB22	3/2 Stryker Brigade Troops Ref: SB23	3/2 Stryker Brigade Troops Ref: SB56
3/2 Stryker Brigade Troops Ref: SB26	3/2 Stryker Brigade Troops Ref: SB27	3/2 Stryker Brigade Troops Ref: SB25	Banners Ref: SB17	Banner from www.WaBeef.org Ref: SB15
www.OpBBQ.com Ref: SB16	Sponsor Banners Ref: SB18	The BIG Thank You! Ref: SB6	5,000 Soda's from Coke, Pepsi, Jones, Shasta and Cash Donations Ref: SB3

Beef It's What's for Dinner

2,500 Pounds Beef Chuck Roll arranged by Washington Beef Commision Donated by Tyson and Washington Beef of Toppenish Ref SB2	Sharon Yarbrough & Christine James Putting Teddy Bear's BBQ Rub on 800# of Beef Ref: SB4	Larry Mayers, Steve Yip, Steve Sanders, Walt Grosjean Chopping Beef Ref: SB7	Close Up Ref: SB37	Banner from Wa Beef Comm> Ref: SB9
20" Refer & 20' Freezer Donated By APM Terminals & Maersk Sealand Ref: SB11	BBQ Pit Donated By APM Terminals next to Truck Ref: SB10	Banner from APM Terminals Ref: SB19	Banner from APM Terminals & Maersk Sealand Ref: SB36	OpBBQ Delivery Truck Donated By J&R Truck Rental Lynnwood, WA Ref SB40
www.OpBBQ.com BBQ Pit Row Ref: SB14	www.OpBBQ.com BBQ Pit Row Ref: SB13	www.OpBBQ.com BBQ Pit Row Ref: SB12	5,000 Buns Donated By Anonamous Donorr Chips Donated By Wa Potato Commission & Tim's Chips & 30 Cases of Coleslaw Cabbage Ref: SB1

The Volunteers

The Volunteers Ref: SB5	The Volunteers with 296 BSB Rear Detachment Troops Ref: SB33	The Volunteers with 296 BSB Rear Detachment Troops Ref: SB32	Maj. Gen. Collins Deputy Commanding Gen. Ft. Lewis, Thanks the Volunteers Ref: SB52	MG Collins Thanking the volunteers Ref: SB51
MG Collins Thanking Konrad Haskins of Teddy Bear's BBQ Ref: SB50	Walt Grosjean Heating Dawn's Food Hot Fudge with a Weed Burner Ref: SB31	Walt Grosjean Heating Dawn's Food Hot Fudge with a Weed Burner Ref: SB38	Irma Schroeder, Christine James, Pauline Sanders, BJ Mayers Mixing Coleslaw with Nalley's Coleslaw Dressing Ref: SB8	Rear detachment 296 BSB Troops setting up Ref: SB38
296 BSB Rear Detachment Troops Get to eat Ref: SB49	Col. Rounds Thanking volunteer Ref: SB48	Col. Rounds Thanking a member of Wa. Beef Comm Ref: SB47	Col. Rounds CO 3/2 Stryker Brigade Thanking Konrad Haskins of www.OpBBQ.com Ref: SB46	Col. Rounds Thanking Amelia Haskins Ref: SB45
Col. Rounds Thanking Irma Schroeder Ref: SB44	Col. Rounds Thanking Steve Yip of Rainbow Catering Ref: SB43	Col. Rounds Thanking volunteer Ref: SB42	Col. Rounds Thanking Walt Grosjean Ref: SB41

                      

www.PNWBA.com Cooking Teams:

• Rainbow Catering Steve Yip

• Teddy Bear BBQ Konrad, Phyllis & Amelia Haskins

• Aggieny & ExTexasy Mack & Sharon Yarbrough

• Smoke a Fat One Steve and Pauline Sanders

• and others please send corrections to konrad@opbbq.com

The Volunteers (please send corrections to konrad@opbbq.com)
Barb Eskeback, Bernie Kroger, BJ Mayer, Lauren Bonar, Patti Brumbach, Patrick Brumbach, Camille Allen, Cynthia Lee Jones, Dan Mallery, Doris Dale, Gerald Labish, Walt Grosjean, Amelia Haskins, Konrad Haskins, Phyllis Haskins, Dorthy Heindselman, Everett Heindselman, Irma Scroeder, Kathy Rae Saty, Ken Peach, Larry Mayer, Jane Lee, Robert Lee, Joy LeTourneau, Mack Yarbrough, Jackie Madill, Raymond McGaugh, Michael Hackett, Milton Schroeder, Rosalee Mohney, Gulit Nadine, Richard Nelson, Robert Noel, Lawrence Olberding, Jr., Patti Ann Dickinson-Bonar, Pauline Sanders, Harvey Pearce, Peggy Vargas, Roy Weiker, Ruth Peach, Sharon Yarbrough, Steve Sanders, David Tobias, Steve Yip, Kurt Paul Nilson

                     

News

11/22 Mission Accomplished.  With the help of an amazing group of volunteers we prepared 5,000 meals for all 6 battalions of the 3/2 Stryker Brigade.  This was done free of charge to the military and was made possible by our Sponsors and Volunteers.
 

11/16 We received $300 from the Fort Lewis Enlisted Spouses Club,  a $750 Check from Save-A-Lot a Supervalu company and a $1,000 check from an individual in Washington.  Thank You all!

The two owners of Wicked Baking Company in Monroe Washington working on 5,000 brownies for the BIG BBQ.

Click on Pictures for Large Image

11/2 Washington State Potato Commission www.Potatoes.com & www.TimsChips.com (Birds Eye Foods) are donating all the Washington potato chips we need.  Schwan's is donating 156 Gallons of Ice Cream.
 

11/1 Linda's Cooking Woods is donating 15 sacks of Cherry wood for us to smoke the Beef with. Birds Eye Foods, Tacoma, WA is donating 32 gallons of Nalley's Coleslaw Dressing.

10/28 The response has been fantastic, Thank You.  We are almost there.  While working on this event and working their regular jobs the volunteers also managed to feed over 200 wounded soldiers at Fort Lewis this past weekend.  We have also booked a Welcome Home from Iraq BBQ for Bravo Troop.

• AmVets Post 1 Tacoma, WA, Wrote us a Check for $1,000 which is over 6% of their annual donation budget

• Grange Insurance is donating $1,000

• Tacoma News Tribune Story 10/28

• Seattle Times Snohomish Edition Story 10/27

• Monroe Monitor Story 10/13

10/25 KVI Radio is donating a half page ad on the back of their All American Salute Program and putting out a collection jar for us at the event. Konrad & Phyllis of Teddy Bear's BBQ catered the lunch for this event. Konrad & Amelia Haskins attended the event.

Amelia Haskins w/
Tony Snow

10/18

• VFW Has a donation in progress

• One of our Volunteers Sharon Yarbrough contacted Ichabod Caine of KMPS.  Ichabod read our want list on his show all week and did an Interview with Konrad.  As a result we received the following donations:

  • Anonymous Donor is providing 5,000 4" Hamburger Buns

  • Allied Ice is providing 500# Ice

  • Mearsk is Providing a 20' Refrigerated Container, 20' Freezer Container and a trailered BBQ.

Donations & Sponsors

To all who made this event possible

• 2,500 Pounds Beef Chuck Roll (This was premium quality beef)
  
  Thank You Washington Beef Council www.WABeef.org who arranged for all the meat to be donated by Tyson and Washington Beef.

• 5,000 Brownies (Baked with love by Doris and Barb)
  Thank You Wicked Baking Company, Monroe, WA.
  www.WickedBaking.com
• 5,000 4” Sesame Hamburger/BBQ Buns
  Thank You Anonymous Donor
• 5,500 Heavy Duty Plastic Plates
  Thank You customers of Teddy Bear BBQ
• 5,500 Heavy Duty Plastic Forks
  Thank You customers of Teddy Bear BBQ
• 12,000 Napkins
  Thank You customers of Teddy Bear BBQ
• 500 Pounds Ice
  Thank You Allied Ice
• Potato Chips for 5,000
  Thank You Washington State Potato Commission www.Potatoes.com & www.TimsChips.com (Birds Eye Foods)
• 20' Refer container, 20' Freezer Container & Trailer Mounted BBQ
  Thank You Mearsk Zealand & APM Terminals
• 156 Gallons of Ice Cream
  Thank You Schwan's
• 32 gallons of Nalley's Coleslaw Dressing
  Thank You Birds Eye Foods, Tacoma, WA
• Refrigerated Deliver Truck
  Thank You Steve Yip  Rainbow Catering
• BBQ Wood
  Thank You Linda's Cooking Woods
• 500 Pounds Charcoal
  Thank You customers of Teddy Bear BBQ
• 3 Bins Eating Apples (we only wish we could buy apples this nice)
  Thank You Pheasant Ridge Orchards
• Coffee for Volunteers (So good it did not need cream)
  White Rock Coffee Bob and Nancy Baker (Stryker Parents)

 

• Cash & Goods Donations
  Thank You to all who have contributed
  Including;
  • All anonymous cash donors including customers of Teddy Bear's BBQ and supporters of www.OSOT.org
  • AmVets Post 1, Tacoma, WA, $1,000
  • Grange Insurance $1,000
  • Save-A-Lot $750 (a Supervalu company)
  • East Side Republican Club $665 (we are non partisan and would welcome a donation from a democrat group)
  • Fort Lewis Enlisted Spouses Club
  • JR Truck Rentals Lynnwood, WA
  • Fastsigns, Kirkland, WA
  • Budget Signs, Tacoma, WA
  • Ken Swarner, The Fort Lewis Ranger $300
  • HHC 296 BSB "Outlaws" FRG
  • Dawn Foods
  • J & R Truck Rental
  • Kay West
  • Brian and Liz Beckman
  • David and Shirley Reed
  • Barry Rogers
  • Brenda Rauschenberg
  • Charles (Steve) Roper
  • Kathryn and Richard Hanlin Jr.
  • Beryl D. Fursman
  • Delores and Robert Brittingham
  • Mark and Marcia Stipek
  • Christopher and Pamela Pugel
  • Brian and Wendi Hawley
  • Michael and Lori Sotello
  • Bernadette and Thomas Koger
  • Steve and Sandie Beren
  • Anne Ahlborn
  • Jack Korsten
  • Coke Donated 30 Cases of Pop and Pepsi Donated 10 Cases and Jones Sodas Donated 10 cases.

  FAQ What about the left overs?  See our Future Events Page

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