Community Corner
Marine Corps League Southwest Riverside County Detachment 1057 Looks To The Community For Support
Like any other community organization, Southwest Riverside County Detachment 1057 needs financial support from the community.
Meet Marine Corps League Southwest Riverside County Detachment 1057 and Ed Wiggs, the leader and commandant of the branch since January.
Wiggs and this community-based group work with distressed Marines (present, former and retired) and Navy Corpsmen and their families.
The Southwest Riverside County Detachment 1057 has been around since 2008. The group formerly met at the police station in Murrieta, but with many other groups needing that meeting space the detachment chose a new location at
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The Post donates space to the group once a month. Meetings are the last Saturday of every month at 9 a.m.
Like any other community organization, Southwest Riverside County Detachment 1057 needs financial support from the community.
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On May 13, Mimi’s Café in Temecula hosted a dinner for the group.
About 60 people filtered through the event and Mimi’s donated 15 percent of proceeds to the detachment.
“That money will go to support youth groups such as the Young Marines, scouting programs and the ROTC,” Wiggs said.
The group also takes part in many local parades and hosts memorials throughout the region.
Future fundraising events are being planned, including an October 24 golf tournament at Bear Creek Golf Course in Murrieta. It is a coed event and the cost is $125 per golfer. The funds raised will go toward scholarships for the youth groups that Southwest Riverside County Detachment 1057 supports.
