Veterans

(Standard-Examiner file photo)

Farmington plans Memorial Day event

FARMINGTON — Retired Maj. Gen. Donald Bagley will highlight a Memorial Day program at the Military Veterans Memorial at the city cemetery at noon Monday.

Missy Allred waves to family and friends before taking off from Ogden-Hinckley Airport. Her husband flew on training missions during WWII. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Ogden vet, 87-year-old woman give flight in two-seater a thumbs up

OGDEN — Clair Allen gave a big thumbs up and a huge smile to a group of senior citizens gathered Tuesday morning at Ogden-Hinckley Airport.

As he lifted his leg over the side of the Boeing Stearman Primary Trainer 17, a former military training two-seater airplane, he needed a little help to get his balance.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten out of one of these,” he said.

In fact, it had been about 60 years.

Businesses invited to veterans job fair

OGDEN — The Hiring Our Heroes Job Fair is looking for businesses with job vacancies looking to hire service members, veterans and military spouses.

(BRIAN WOLFER/Special to the Standard-Examiner)
YouthBuild is a program that helps students earn credits to graduate from high school or earn their GED. The students are painting a house for struggling veterans.

YouthBuild students earn degrees while helping others

OGDEN — Selina Sosa was covered in green paint Friday afternoon as she sat on the steps of a home on Pingree Avenue in Ogden.

The 17-year-old spent the morning painting a house for a veteran, who before last month had been homeless.

Selina is part of YouthBuild, a program run through the Ogden/Weber Applied Technology Center established to help high school students earn credits to graduate or get their GED.

Vietnam vets may get new VVA chapter

OGDEN — When many Vietnam veterans returned from war, they were mocked and alienated by their fellow Americans, but one man is doing his best to make sure they finally have a place they can call home.

State to commemorate its veterans of Korean War

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah veterans of the Korean War will be recognized this month at a special 60th Commemoration ceremony.

‘Naked arsonist’ to be treated at Salt Lake City vets hospital

OGDEN — Gregory Rueckert will be leaving Weber County Jail for the George E. Wahlen Veteran Affairs Hospital in Salt Lake City.

Sample veterans badge made for Weber County Sheriff's Deputies who are veterans. BadgeThe badges can only be worn for special occasions. Their centers show the service that the deputy is a veteran of. This one shows the U.S. Marine Corps. (CHARLES F. TRENTELMAN/Standard-Examiner)

Weber deputies can wear badges acknowledging military veteran status

OGDEN — A chance encounter in a parking lot has led to an opportunity for Weber County sheriff’s deputies to wear special badges proclaiming they are veterans of the United States military.

Prince Harry to visit U.S., skipping Vegas this time

LONDON — Britain’s Prince Harry is returning to the United States — but this time he’s skipping Las Vegas.

The 28-year-old prince will travel to the U.S. East Coast as well as Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado, to support veterans’ charities and get in a bit of polo.

Harry, a longtime supporter of charities that rehabilitate war veterans, will attend several events at the 2013 Warrior Games, a competition in which veteran athletes from both Britain and the United States take part.

Cooking contest for Vietnam vets

LAYTON — The Layton Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8307, at 1389 N. Main St., is celebrating “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans” on Friday with a cooking contest that only a veteran of the Vietnam War could love: one based on Spam.

Josh Hansen, 41, sits at his kitchen table in Woods Cross on Monday. The retired Army sergeant was deployed twice to Iraq and suffered traumatic brain injury from multiple IED blasts. (REYNALDO LEAL/Standard-Examiner)

10 years after Iraq invasion, retired Woods Cross sergeant helping veterans

Josh Hansen sat across the kitchen table from his 6-year-old son. His blue eyes shifted from his wife preparing dinner to the boy coloring a page with a red marker. He smiled and then chuckled.

Hansen doesn’t have to worry about improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers or small-arms ambushes anymore. He’s as far away from the dangers of war as he could possibly be inside his home in Woods Cross.

The 41-year-old is happy with his current, peaceful life. With the exception of a memorial tattoo of a helmet, rifle and boots on his left arm, there is little to indicate a soldiering past.

Public invited to spaghetti dinner

OGDEN — The American Legion Baker-Merrill Post No. 9, at 845 W. 24th St., Ogden, will have a spaghetti dinner with a drink for $5 at 6 p.m. Saturday. The public is invited to come out and have dinner.

Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clinton

Bill giving veterans college credit goes to governor

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill by Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clinton, allowing veterans to gain college credit for skills learned in the military is headed to the governor’s desk.

HB 254 passed the Senate unanimously Friday.

Ray said the bill ensures that credits granted to a veteran for service or skills attained in the military are transferable from one Utah school to another.

He praised Weber State University as being one of the leaders in the state in dealing with the issue.

Dignified vets burial bill moves forward

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill aimed at providing a dignified burial of veterans’ remains has received a favorable recommendation from a Senate committee.

A rendition of one side of the Clinton City Veteran’s Memorial.

Clinton to move forward with veteran's memorial

CLINTON — The city council and parks advisory board has spent the last five years attempting to raise enough money to place a large veteran’s memorial stone and flagpole in Veteran’s Park, located at 1000 West 1800 North.

However, the council has raised only one-third of the money needed for the project, raising merely more than $2,000 in donations. The city hoped to fund the project entirely from donations from residents and proceeds from the custom-engraved bricks being sold and placed around the stone as part of the memorial.

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