Local Trout Unlimited Chapter and Cherokee County Homeless
Veterans Program Partner to Create Free Fly Fishing for
Disabled and Elderly Veterans in Cherokee County
The Cherokee County Homeless Veteran Program (CCHVP)
and the Cohutta Chapter of Trout Unlimited are pleased to
veterans of Cherokee County.
According Don Thomson, Trout
Unlimited Cohutta Chapter president,
“The four week program will be led
by chapter instructors and provide
the following classroom instructions:
lines leaders and knots, clean water
conservation and insect life, places
program will also culminate in a go
Location: Boys and Girls Club, 1082 Univeter Road, Canton,
Georgia
Dates: February 13 and 27, 2020, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
March 12 and 26, 2020, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Apr 16, 2020, Go Fishing Day
The free program
will include use
equipment and
is intended to be
focused on disabled
veterans, as well
as elderly veterans
of all skill levels.
There are only 20
out of the house and into adaptive sports so that they can again be
part of the community.
According to Jim Lindenmayer, Director of the Cherokee
County Homeless Veteran program, “The Veterans Administration
has placed a lot of focus on developing and conducting adaptive
sports programs for veterans at a number of VA Medical Centers
around the country. With Cherokee County being remote from
these Medical Centers, there is a great need for communities to
develop such programs at a local level.”
Adaptive sports programs are not just for injured or disabled
veterans. According to Lindenmayer, there are a number of groups
from the Iraq/Afghanistan war (www.CBSnews.com).
per year in the U.S., and there are an estimated 282,000 currently
| February 2020 | Real Hero Report
living in the U.S. (NSCISC – National Spinal Cord Injury
Statistic Center).
the U.S. (www.CDC.gov).
than half of those older than 65 suffering some type of reduced
mobility (www.CDC.gov).
automobile accidents (www.ASIRT.org – Association for Safe
International Road Travel).
“We are pleased to create this program in partnership with the
Veterans of Cherokee County and CCHVP, added Don Thomson.
“Fishing is a sport for life and can be enjoyed at all ages and skill
levels.”
If you are a disabled veteran or an elderly veteran and would
like be part of this clinic, please contact Jim Lindenmayer,
Director of the Cherokee County Homeless Veteran program, at
(678) 983-7590 or by email at jlindenmayer80@gmail.com and
you will be sent a program registration form.
The Cherokee County Homeless Veteran Program is part of the
American Legion which is the largest veteran support group in the
U.S. with posts in 14,000 communities around the country with
2.4 million members. For more information, please visit http://
www.legion.org/.
Trout Unlimited believes in an inclusive, collaborative
approach to coldwater conservation that integrates the needs and
expertise of all stakeholders.They actively seek to build durable
partnerships to leverage resources and ensure our projects and
intact habitat, often in the headwaters of watersheds on public
habitat and at-risk native trout and salmon populations; and
sustaining conservation gains and public support for them by
building an active community of angler-advocates. For more
information, please visit www.tucohutta.org.