Boomer's Legacy

Our webmaster and bike rider extraordinaire, Mr. AJ Bryan, turns the BIg 5-0 this weekend. The gang at Boomer’s Legacy wishes you a wonderful birthday celebration and toasts your milestone! Here’s to you AJ!

Reprinted from an email correspondence to Boomer’s Legacy from Warrant Officer Tony Brown, a Canadian Forces (CF) medical physician’s assistant currently serving at Camp Alamo, Kabul Afghanistan. WO Brown works for the Task Force Surgeon, Major Wade Brockway. On arrival in theater, I was informed that [Major Wade Brockway] was canvassing the medics for a representative [...]

COMOX, B.C. – The 2012 Boomer’s BC Bike Ride is just one month away and more cyclists are needed to fill up the 100 spots for the ride from Comox to Victoria on 15 – 16 June. This ride is the cornerstone of the fundraising events in support of Boomer’s Legacy, a foundation created in [...]

The Boomer’s Caps program is the cornerstone of the Foundation, having started literally the day of Andrew Eykelenboom’s death by a suicide bomber 11 August 2006. Today, more than 300,000 caps have been knitted by the loving hands of knitters worldwide. They have been distributed to the far corners of the globe, many through compassion [...]

News Flash - BOOMER WINS! With a grand total of 37 votes – Boomer has won the giant bone cake in the first annual Heel for Hope! Visit the  ‘news’ page for more details. The Heel for Hope walk to raise awareness of psychiatric service dogs was held on 4 April in the sunshine of Edmonton’s [...]

Repost from  The News, By Paul LeBlanc Published on April 9, 2012 Petty Officer First Class, Task Force Pristina This is the story of the generosity of a group of individuals from Tatamagouche, New Glasgow and Truro who helped me make the lives and comfort of some children in Kosovo a little more enjoyable. This project was not [...]

Thanks to Boomers Trust a cardiac doppler probe is now available to Afghan cardiologists in Kabul, Afghanistan. In keeping with the many projects funded by Boomers Trust focused on Afghan children: “The main purpose of the new cardiac doppler probe is treating children born with life-threatening heart defects, such as a hole in the wall [...]

When voting closed, “Boomer” the Lab led the Heel for Hope Service Dog Campaign with 37 votes! Pictured above, “Boomer” in training. Immaculately dressed in his “cadpat” uniform, an excellent turn-out “Boomer”!  ”Boomer” wishes to thank everyone who supported his campaign. Thanks only to your support, “Boomer” can be seen with his prize, chowing down [...]

COMOX, B.C. – Registration is now open for the 2012 Boomer’s Bike Ride taking place from Comox to Victoria on June 15 -16. Cyclists can register online. The bike ride is a fundraising event in support of Boomer’s Legacy, a foundation created in 2006 to bring awareness to the Canadian Force’s efforts on deployed operations [...]

Lucie Messer was a wonder with needlework, a giver of her time who shared her passion for creating gifts to help others. Lucie was one of the many brilliant women behind the Boomer caps. A heart filled with love and compassion, fitting for a woman born on Valentine’s Day, Lucie passed away on her 91st [...]