Santa Clarita residents do support their veterans.
On Aug. 23, 2016, Santa Clarita’s City Council approved the installation of a granite monument to honor 50 Santa Clarita Valley residents who perished from World War II to present.
For the project to be built, it required $50,000 of funding from the community.
As of Friday, 166 contributions from the Santa Clarita Valley and beyond donated a total of $54,429 to the monument’s construction, or 109 percent of the project’s goal.
“We have received enough contributions to pay for the monument,” said Bill Reynolds, the Signal’s Director of Veteran Affairs who first presented the idea for the monument to City Council in 2015.
Reynolds said any surplus funds following the Fallen Warriors Monument’s construction, will go toward city construction costs.
“Any funds that are left over from purchasing the granite monument, we are prepared to contribute to the city to help purchase construction materials needed for concrete footings walkways, electrical, lighting, lumber and columns necessary for a dignified site,” Reynolds said.
Reynolds is also working with city officials to alter the approved designs of the monument so the existing pergola, a garden style archway, at Veteran’s Plaza in Newhall can extend to cover the monument.
Following meetings with Julia Regan, the Fallen Warriors Monument’s project manager, Reynolds anticipates that the alteration to the design plans will be accepted by the Santa Clarita City Council.
Fallen Warriors Monument Contributors as of Dec. 23:
- Women’s Federated Republican Club
- Amos Clemmons (Vietnam Veteran)
- Sharon & Bob Ventrice (Vietnam Veteran)
- Gary & Vera Bierend
- Bill Reynolds (Boys of ’67 – Vietnam Veteran)
- Pauline Harte
- Wynn & Rosemary Ritch (Vietnam Veteran)
- SCV Veterans Memorial, Inc.
- Trudy Emeterio
- John & Mary Martin (WWII Veteran)
- Chris Henry (Navy Veteran)
- Scott Henry
- Bob Reynolds (Army Veteran)
- Thomas Gardner
- Knights of Columbus
- Stan Cockerell (Boys of ’67 – Vietnam Veteran)
- Jim Hackett (Vietnam Veteran)
- Rita Wheatley (for Victor Rosen)
- Bill Reed (Boys of ’67 – Vietnam Veteran)
- “The Boys of ‘67” (Vietnam Veterans)
- John & Mary Martin (for Victor Rosen)
- Daniel Bradley (Vietnam Veteran)
- Sally White
- Geralyn Huels (for Victor Rosen)
- Janet Humphrey
- Tony & Reena Newhall
- Barbara Reardon
- James Cochran
- James P. De Bree
- Gregory Quandt
- Greg Bernards
- Tom Tucker (WWII Veteran)
- Richard Roelofs (WWII Veteran)
- Michael Peterson
- Eternal Valley Memorial Park & Mortuary
- Dennis Witzel (Vietnam Veteran)
- Kathleen Hassen
- Marvin Matthews
- Henrietta Festa
- Tom Dierckman (Navy Veteran)
- John & Mary Martin (again)
- Mike Reynolds (Web Site Set-up)
- James P. Olinn
- Jerry Rhodes (Vietnam Veteran)
- Calvin Erickson
- Haralson Family
- Jane Rosen (for Victor Rosen)
- Deborah Goff
- Beverly Hough
- Robert Good (Vietnam Veteran)
- David K. Bruce
- Shulman Family (WWII Veteran)
- Gene Dorio
- Todd Andrews
- Robert Danis (Korean War Veteran)
- John Coleman
- Olivia Shaw
- Thomas Hemphill (Vietnam Veteran)
- Carl’s Laundry Repair, Inc. (for Victor Rosen)
- Christy Smith
- Lila Littlejohn (Signal Newspaper)
- Bradley Prociuk
- Kim Rafalovich
- Mary Falwell
- Angela Fatta
- Dennis Talle
- Betty & Frank Arenson
- AMS Fulfillment Services
- Fred Arnold – American Pacific Mortgage Corp. (Air Force Veteran)
- Barbara & Russ Cochran (Korean War Veteran)
- Cheryl Gray
- Meg Reynolds
- Bob & Kay Slocum (Gold Star Parents)
- Janine Schulenburg (SCV Veterans Memorial, Inc.)
- David S, Kim – Enhance Dentist, Comfort & Caring
- Leon Worden – SCVTV
- Maryanne Leiby
- Christina Surette
- Ian & Judy Williams
- Dan Werner (Army Veteran)
- Del Holland
- Steve Hopp
- Tom Conroy (Boys of ’67 – Vietnam Veteran)
- David Deloria
- David Huffaker
- TimBen Boydston (Air Force Veteran)
- Chad Jacobson
- Margaret J. Teagle
- Bill Cooper (Vietnam Veteran)
- Julie Olsen (for Saugus School Board)
- Bill Reynolds
- Brett Haddock
- G & M Yadlosky
- Sonnie & Mark Kashay
- Nils Grevillius (Army Veteran)
- Leonard Miller (Army Veteran)
- Vietnam Veterans of America
- Dennis Noble – Sun Air Parts
- Jeri Goldman – KHTS
- Michael Lee
- Stephanie Dietrich
- Maureen Griffin
- SCV Signal Newspaper (Ads)
- Lisa Williams
- Olechowski
- Brian Baker (Vietnam Veteran)
- Lily Knight
- John Sclimenti (Boy’s of ’67 – Vietnam Veteran)
- Nancy Siwula
- Larry Young
- Tim Norwalk (Army Veteran)
- John Shaffery
- Patricia Stephenson
- Mark White (On behalf of his Dad, Walter H. White, WWII Veteran)
- Dean Leao (Vietnam Veteran) Family
- Kelly Dunnahoo
- Mark Brandhurst
- Mark Brandhurst (for Roether)
- Spencer Leafdale
- Robert Penoyer (Air Force Veteran)
- Valerie Tippy
- Arlene Cast
- Nancy Spicer
- Mary Vogeley
- John Dortch (Army Veteran)
- American Pacific Mortgage Corp
- G. Blair
- Judy Cooperberg
- Tim & Delia Gelig (Gold Star Parents)
- Daniel Kryszan
- Jeffrey Bissett
- Donna Schmidt
- Bank of Santa Clarita
- Claudine Holcomb
- Winston Garth
- David Gartland
- Mark Pittman
- Michael Perl
- Louis Vince (USMC Veteran)
- Ron Bischof
- Ron Singerman
- Anonymous
- Women’s Federated Republican Club
- Judy & Doug Penman
- Thomas E. Hough
- Holly & Ralph Ware (Vietnam Veteran)
- Douglas & Susan Grogan
- Susan McCabe
- Tom & Alice Reynolds
- Bruce Fortine (Army Veteran)
- Frederick Carter
- Paul Yadlosky (WWII Veteran)
- R. Stapel
- Leroy & Delores Short
- Bob & Kitty Conant (Gold Star Parents)
- David Moore
- Cheryl Nowels
- Mike O’Gara (Boy’s of ’67 – Vietnam Veteran)
- First Presbyterian Church
- Robert Allison
- Hallway Plumbing
- Douglas Hansen
- David Veal
- Jose Ramirez – LA Marble Co.
- 1st Marine Division Association – LA Chapter
- Morris Thomas
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