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Thousands of people lined Second Street in downtown Antioch Wednesday to view the soldiers, vintage cars, macho motorcyclists, flag-waving scouts, marching bands, waving politicians and a bagpiper ...
Nov 09, 2009 | 0 | 16 |
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When the festivities begin this year at the East County Veterans Day Parade in downtown Antioch, the guests of honor – and grand marshals of the event – will have a view of the parade like no other...
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 | 13 |
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Students in grades three and up are invited to observe Veteran’s Day by experiencing a bit of history when Vietnam veteran Phil Ehrhorn shares his war experiences in a free 45-minute program on Tue...
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Talks have begun about what Mayor Bob Taylor will do to ramp up his promise once his The Mayor Is A Turkey fundraiser breaks through the 300 mark. Taylor has been collecting $8 donations fo...
Nov 03, 2009 | 0 | 12 |
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Officers of Anne Loucks Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, braved a recent storm to present a Flag Certificate of Award to David Van Fossen, general manager of Lone Tre...
Nov 03, 2009 | 1 | 18 |
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The California Department of Veterans Affairs has received a $10,000 donation from the Joey Graves Memorial Foundation for Project Gold Star. These funds were raised in honor of Joey Graves during ...
Oct 23, 2009 | 3 | 10 |
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The Warrior Watch Riders, Contra Costa Fire Protection District Engine 82, the Antioch Police, family, friends and neighbors welcomed home Marine Cpl. Kevin Harrigon on Oct. 22 following his seven ...
Oct 15, 2009 | 0 | 14 |
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For the most part, Veterans Day doesn’t feature the ceremonial pomp and circumstance of its more heralded brother, Memorial Day. There wasn’t a Veterans Day Parade in East County until last year wh...
Oct 15, 2009 | 0 | 12 |
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Last year when Spike Donnelly, left, collected and shipped more than 5,000 golf balls to troops in the Middle East, he had no idea he’d actually meet one of the recipients.
But that’s what happene...
Oct 08, 2009 | 0 | 11 |
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Cadet Andrew Jay Horne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Horne of Brentwood, recently completed Cadet Basic Training at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Horne entered West Point on June 29 and has...
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 | 12 |
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Girl Scout Gold Award candidate Erika So stands patiently in line at the post office Saturday, waiting to mail boxes of goods headed for troops overseas.
Erika’s project, A Piece of Home, garnered...
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 | 8 |
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Brentwood resident and 2009 Liberty High School graduate Derek Gaffett graduated from USMC Boot Camp on Sept. 11 as a Private 1st Class, being one of five graduates out of 75 in his class to do so....
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 | 9 |
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John J. Cattolico of Brentwood completed 10 weeks of Army Basic Combat Training and graduated from Boot Camp on Sept. 2 from Fort Jackson, S.C.
He is now in AIT School at Fort Gordon, Ga., where h...
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 | 8 |
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Adam Leines, a 2009 graduate from Liberty High School who is now a midshipman at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in New York, played his first football game against Gallaudet University S...
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 | 9 |
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Marine Cpl. Michael McDaniel, left, is congratulated by Brian Weldon of the Lafayette Flag Brigade during a welcome-home celebration in Brentwood on Sept. 5.
McDaniel, a 2001 graduate of Liberty H...
Sep 10, 2009 | 0 | 10 |
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Pvt. Mitchell Anthony Duhaime graduated from boot camp at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego on Aug. 28.
Duhaime completed 13 weeks of intensive training and is home on 10 days leave. He’...
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Congratulations to Brentwood resident SN Anthony Wylie, E3, who graduated from the U.S. Navy Basic Training in North Chicago, Great Lakes Facility, on June 19.
A 2008 graduate of Liberty High Scho...
Sep 03, 2009 | 0 | 10 |
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Members of the organization Operation Homefront, along with the families of military servicemen, are holding the fourth annual September 11 Freedom Walk next Friday at the Somersville Towne Center ...
Aug 13, 2009 | 0 | 9 |
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Sgt. Thomas McGredy has been approved to receive the Purple Heart medal.
He was injured in the back and head when his tank hit a mine while on a mission in Afghanistan. McGredy is back on active d...
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Marine Staff Sgt. Zach Curran, left, and Navy Ensign Joshua Moody salute one another following Moody’s commission ceremony at Naval Officer Candidacy School in Newport, R.I. in June.
The Liberty H...