2023 Bell Ringing Poster

Ring the bell hanging in the entrance to Trader Joe’s!

Veteran’s Day, November 11, from 11 AM to 1 PM

We hope you’ll join us to Ring the Historic Bell at Trader Joe’s and honor our veterans and Lyle Tate, our Garden Home soldier who lost his life in Vietnam. The historic old church bell has been ringing in Garden Home for 105 years! As the plaque says “The bell hangs here to recognize its role in the life of the Garden Home community.”

The historic bell first hung in 1918 inside the Garden Home Community Church, on the south side of Garden Home Road, just west of SW 71st Ave. In 1961, the bell moved to the new Garden Home Community Methodist Church, today the Korean Society of Oregon on SW 81st Ave. After the church closed in 1994, Colin Lamb agreed to hang the bell in the new Lamb’s Thriftway building.