Isle of Flags to honor more veterans Monday

The annual Isle of Flags, with its Memorial Day ceremony, will honor nine 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 will start putting up at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 25, at the Spring Canyon Cemetery. They will be flying 500 American flags.

A 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 27, the annual ceremony at Spring Canyon should 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:

H.L. “Bud” Archer

Robert I. Eylar

Alan L. Grier

CPL Kenneth M. Kessinger

George T. Kohout

Gordon Lee Larson

Charles Long

Virgil Roy Moon

Leonard R. Morris\

Members of the public may help take the flags down at 3 p.m. May 27.