Update on Travis

As many of you may already know (perhaps from last year's blog entry), the older son of Heirloom Harvest assistant manager Trish Stefanko is serving in Iraq right now.

Private First Class Travis Weiner (pictured here (middle) tying tomatoes at the farm last summer) is serving with the 101st Airborne with an Air-Assault Team near Baghdad. In recent action about two weeks ago Travis was hit in the neck by mortar shrapnel as his unit was leaving an area they had just cleared in a eight-humvee convoy. Travis was not nearly as badly injured as some other soldiers in his unit, and he assisted giving first aid to some very badly injured men.

Travis spent some time in recovery and has now returned to duty, though the doctors decided not to remove the shrapnel from his neck. Travis will be returning home in mid-April for a two week leave and has said he would love to attend a Red Sox game. His mother Trish has heard tickets are hard to get, and wanted me to post a request if anyone had tickets that they could donate or sell to her during the time Travis is in town, she would be grateful.

Her email is trish8588@verizon.net.