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MnM RC Poker Run for the Tinley Wish Foundation

Saturday, August 11, 2012

9:00 a.m. Sign-up
@ TP Fire Training Tower
7850 W. 183rd Street
Tinley Park, Illinois

11:00 a.m. First Bike Out

IAFF Local 3656 First Due Poker Run

Come support Local 3656 as they host the inaugural “First Due Poker Run” on June 9, 2012. The ride starts at 1145AM @ the St. Joseph parking lot, 17951 Dixie Highway in Homewood. Registration begins at 930AM. $25 per vehicle, $15 per passenger. A portion of the proceeds will support the Brian Carey Scholarship Fund, [...]

Beer for Boo 2011 Pictures Posted

Take a few minutes to visit our photo page (click PHOTOS in menu) to see our 2011 Beer for Boo event.  Images provided courtesy of Thomas Photographic Services.  If you would like to order prints you can visit the photographers page their web address is http://www.thomasphotographicservices.com/  

First Brian Carey Scholarship

Martin O’Malley, received the first Brian Carey Scholarship recipient to Brother Rice High School. The scholarship awarded was a four-year scholarship of $1500.00 per year. Congratulations Martin!  

Thank You Fallen Axes Participants & Sponsors

76 motorcycles, 6 automobiles, and the city of Chicago’s Fire Academy Ladder Truck participated in the ‘Fallen Axes Run’. Escorted out-of-town by the Homewood Fire Department’s Ambulance, a Homewood Police motorcycle and two Illinois State Police motorcycles. The ride started at approximately 11:40 am, as participants pulled through the Homewood Fire Station’s bay out onto [...]

The SouthtownStar – Fallen Homewood firefighter Carey to be honored in Springfield

Fallen Homewood firefighter Carey to be honored in Springfield – The SouthtownStar. BY VICTORIA JOHNSON Correspondent May 12, 2011 7:58AM Bikers pull out of the Homewood Fire Department for the Fallen Axes Run to Springfield, part of a fundraiser for fallen firefighters including one of their own, Brian Carey, in Homewood, Ill., on Wednesday, May, [...]

About

Ride for Boo/The Brian Carey Memorial Fund, Inc. was established to facilitate donations to charities and organizations, to aid firefighters and their families in times of great tragedy, and to fund a scholarship in Brian’s memory. On Tuesday, March 30, 2010, shortly before 9:00 PM, the Homewood Fire Department was dispatched to a report of [...]

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