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January Fisher House News From Our Home
Is one of your resolutions to provide awesome motivational training for your staff in 2017?
  Ed Hubbard of Positive Vectors Inc, and our featured speaker for the 2016 Gala, has offered to donate his corporate training fees this year to your local Fisher House.  Please call him directly to learn more - 850-862-5273.  Thanks Ed for your service, sacrifice and support. 
With Incredible Gratitude

We would like to recognize some of our cause champions and financial partners for the month of December.  When you see them, please thank them for their help fulfilling our mission.  

Raytheon Company
$1,500 - 2017 Gala (early supporter)
Thanks to David Andrews, Steve Wills and Janet Spangle

Ocean City Bingo
$850

American Legion Warrington Post 240
$500

AM VETS Post 2298 of Callaway
$500

Emerald Coast Lightning Lacrosse
$500

Wintec Incorporated
Greg and Betty Fountain
$1,000

American Legion Warrington
Post #240
$500

Palm Coast Sales
$500

Model A & T Ford Club
$350

Tyndall AFB Spouse Club
$300

Destin Kiwanis Club
$500
  Emerald Coast Parrot Head Club
$1,000
 
Baytowne Wharf Neighborhood Association - 9th Annual Beer Fest $1,000
 
AMVETS of FL District IV
$250

53d Wing Kids Christmas Party
Thanks Colonel Elmo Spain!
$202

Three Rivers Chapter, NSDAR
$120

White Sands S.M.A.R.T. Chapter
$100
Brock Lawn & Pest - Fort Walton Beach
In Kind - Pest Control for the Home

Joshuatree Internet Marketing
In Kind - Web Design

Loc-n-Stor
In Kind - Storage Facilities
  Support businesses who support your local Fisher House.
  Upcoming Events
McCafe For A Cause
Every Monday in January
Our friends at Costa Enterprises are supporting your Fisher House through their McCafe With A Cause on Mondays in January. 50% of coffee sales will go to the Fisher House, so stop by your favorite McDonald's location and grab a coffee for a cause! Share with your friends!  The more you enjoy, the more we benefit!
Our calendar of events for 2017 is almost complete and volunteer opportunities are always on the right side of our home page.  Remember to check back often for news and connect with us socially.   
Attend - it's FUN
Vote for The Cutting Room Salon and Spa = win $$ for Fisher House

April 7, 2017 at
Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort
The Cutting Room Salon and Spa is THE Salon supporting your Fisher House in this year's Top Salon 2017.  Thanks to Belinda Gilliam for selecting US, on April 7, please go and select THEM!
  The  Cutting Room Salon and Spa  –  Niceville hair salon and spa  – is in the Bluewater Health & Wellness Building on the corner of Hwy 20 & Whitepoint Road in  Niceville Florida  –  near Eglin AFB . From the moment you enter our  salon in Niceville – Bluewater Bay,  you will see the difference – feel the difference – between the Cutting Room and other  Niceville area salons  or spas. Our hair salon, Niceville nail salon, and spa offering massage in Niceville too – is set up like a glamorous movie set – and you are the STAR. It is our mission to always make sure you feel – and look – like the celebrity you are inside!
10th Annual Helping Heroes Fisher House Gala is finalized - October 19, 2017 at the Henderson Beach Resort and Spa.  Thanks to Hugh Smith and his team for hosting at this lovely new resort.  Sponsorships are available now, tickets will be on sale soon and THE committee to plan all the details is being formed.  Stay tuned for HOW you can be a part of our biggest event of the year.  
Please remember our 2016 Gala Sponsors - hope to see them again in 2017.  Raytheon Company is IN! Will you be next?
Because of your support, along with these great community partners, the 2016 Helping Heroes Gala raised almost $34,000 to care for our military families during a medical event.  WOW!  

 L 3/Crestview Aerospace,  Boeing,  Eglin Federal Credit Union, HDR Engineering, A RA, B each Community Bank and Beach Community Mortgage. E merald Coast Hospitalist Inc, First Partners Bank,  Fort Walton Beach Medical Center and Twin Cities Hospital,  The Manor at Blue Water Bay, Odyssey Consulting, Randy Wise Homes,  Raytheon Company, W orld Impact Real Estate,  Bland Engineering,  Booz Allen Hamilton,  Cummings Engineering,  DAG Architects,  EmCare,  Navy Federal Credit Union,  On-Point Defense Technologies and  ZT Motors
How you can help today!
  Hero Miles uses donated frequent flyer miles to fly wounded, injured, and ill service members and/or their families who are undergoing treatment at a military or VA medical center; or who are attending an authorized event. Click here to learn more about how to donate.


Don't forget to select Fisher House when doing your online shopping at Amazon. Do the thing you love for the military mission we all love.  Click here.
126 guests served during December through your support.  That's 33 families who remained together during a medical event - because a family's love is the best medicine.   More than $1,225,600 in savings to military families since our home opened in 2010.
Our home was almost 100% occupied the week before Christmas, and remains almost at capacity for this week.  Meeting the need!
Fisher House Board Members

Executive Committee

President, Teresa Halverson
Vice President, Gordon "Gordy" Fornell
Secretary/Past President, Shirley Pigott
Treasurer, Jerry Williams

Board Members

Trec Chedister,  Richard Dick,  Jim Fisher,  Kevin Locht,  Bruce Nunnally,  Jeff Riemer,  Tama Van Decar and  Jim Yurack

Emeritus,  Myra Arnold

Community Ambassadors

Carolyn Espinoza, Dave and Diane Walbeck and Wayne and Sheila Williams
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