Isle of Flags to honor 15 more veterans

The annual Isle of Flags, with its Memorial Day ceremony, will honor 15 more veterans whose families have requested a flag be flown in their honor.

The annual event, which started in 1976, continues to add more flags every year to the spectacle that community volunteers (more needed) will start putting them up at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 28, at the Spring Canyon Cemetery. They will be flying 599 American flags.

A Veterans’ Center Memorial Day Breakfast will be offered free of charge to all Saturday from 7 to 11 a.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Donations will be accepted.

On May 30, the annual ceremony at Spring Canyon usually last about 30-40 minutes. The memorial address this year will be delivered by Grant County Commissioner Danny Stone.

Flags will be dedicated in the names of:

Glenn G. Adams

Kenneth J. Alling

Herbert A. Bird

Gary L. Bjorson

Don Bourne

David L. Friesen

Robert E. Hamlin

Richard W. Igo

William E. McCarty

Melvin Jay Morrow

Matthew H. Pakootas

Quentin P. Ricks

Orville J. Scharbach

William Jack Schieber

Ronald O. Schreiber

Members of the public may help take the flags down at 3 p.m. May 30.