Swords to Plowshares

DEDICATION
What: Santa Rosa Veterans’ Memorial Monument dedication
When: 2 p.m. Wednesday July 3
Where: Southwest corner of Santa Rosa City Hall (Santa Rosa and Sonoma avenues)
Opening remarks by Sonoma County Supervisor Tim Smith
Dedication by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena
Contributions to the memorial can be sent to to Santa Rosa Veterans Monument, c/o Community Foundation of Sonoma County, 250 D St., Santa Rosa, 95404


Veterans memorial to open Wednesday

“It will be one proud day forward for all veterans,”

Crews added final touches to the Veterans’ Memorial Monument on Monday, which features five granite columns bearing the names of 448 Sonoma County veterans who have died in seven wars ranging from the Philippines-American War in 1899 to the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Monday’s work also included the solemn task of engraving on a column the name of the county’s latest casualty, Santa Rosa-born Ryan Connolly. Connolly, an Army paratrooper, was killed by a bomb blast in Afghanistan on June 24. Read on…