The Cameron Highlanders of the Northwest participate in public service projects to help those in need, as well as to teach our young members that giving back to our community is important, and rewarding. Over the years, we have participated in many different public service projects:
Annual Visit to Veterans at Portland Veterans Medical Center - 2017
We have helped keep a 2 1/2 mile stretch of road clean by picking up trash twice a year with the Clackamas County, Oregon, Adopt-A-Road Program.
We have supported an annual camping trip for a special education class at the Kiwanas Camp on Mt. Hood. We teach the kids how to perform a Color Guard, and have them raise and lower the flag every day. We hold room and bunk inspections to help teach the kids to keep their rooms and personal effects clean and orderly. We take them fishing and hiking, and teach them some of the highland athletic games
We provide an Honor Guard every year for the Fort Stevens National Cemetery Memorial Day Service.
We visit the Portland Veterans Hospital every Veterans Day and visit with the veterans, as well as provide them with as many socks as we can procure (the VA doesnt issue socks).
We deliver Food Boxes for the Portland Police Sunshine Division every year around Christmas time.
We have sent Burns Supper Kits to our soldiers serving in Iraq. The kits contained a CD with songs, poems, pipe music, and literature, and a canned haggis. We hope some of our lads of Scottish-American ancestry will enjoy the kits, and know that were thinking of them as we enjoy our Burns Suppers.