For the first time after a three-year Covid pandemic disruption, military members of a wood carving club presented eagle-headed, insignia-emblazoned walking canes to combat-wounded veterans. Roughly ...

KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP, MI — World War II veteran Elmer Gerish handles a carved wooden cane in his Kawkawlin Township living room, topped with an eagle's head and decorated carefully with his name, rank, ...

KUTV — Richard Egan is asking for the public's help with finding a walking cane that was stolen from his vehicle early this month. Egan filed a police report when his handcrafted cane was stolen from ...

PLEASANTON — Michael De Lia’s World War II memories come and go in glimpses at the sight of the cane. In advance of Memorial Day, a Pleasanton woodcarver presented De Lia, a World War II veteran who ...

Curt Hutchens spends much of his time carving wood and helping veterans. He is the vice president of the Central Minnesota Wood Carvers Association and belongs to three more wood carving clubs in ...

Midland’s Don Welch clutched the carved eagle head of his cane in his left hand as he stood talking at the Midland County Fairgrounds’ Gerstacker Center Wednesday. The genial World War II veteran ...

A Sterling Heights branch of the Michigan Wood Carvers Association is doing its part to help local veterans. As part of the Patriot Cane/Memorial Project, members carve and whittle canes for injured ...

WASHINGTON — C.A. Savoy has gotten too good at making canes. “There’s a need. If there wasn’t, we wouldn’t be turning them,” said Savoy, a master woodworker from Fairfax County, Va. “When the kids ...

Racine - Paul Miller thought it sounded like a good idea - carving canes for veterans returning home with a leg injury. Miller, an avid wood carver, owns his own woodcarving business. And when another ...

Thomas Jones methodically felt his new hand-carved wooden cane, inch by inch, from its eagle-head handle to its red, white and blue shaft. “It feels real nice,” said Jones, 82, who lives in the Glen ...

Do you remember Fred Astaire who danced and twirled a walking stick with abandon in his dance routines of the 1940s and 1950s? You might recall David Suchet’s portrayal of Agatha Christie’s detective ...

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