Kyle McCulloch, the Dufur Green Beret who is walking from his home to the Oregon Coast to raise funds for the Gorge Heroes Club to send care packages to local members of the service deployed overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan is on the homestretch toward Seaside and will arrive this evening, having covered 185 miles in nine days. The Elks Lodge there is coordinating a welcoming committee. Despite blisters and shin splints, so far he’s raised more than $3,000, and if all the pledges come in, that number could reach $3,500



