#Latest news with #Tri-StateBuildingandTradesYahoo2 days agoGeneralYahooIn Our View: WWII wall todayToday is the 81st anniversary of D-Day. It is also a perfect day to visit the dedication of the World War II Memorial Wall at 17th and Carter Avenue in downtown Ashland. The wall will be dedicated at 5 p.m. Also, this Friday is First Friday on Winchester Avenue. Before or after the dedication of the wall, we encourage you to be downtown and enjoy your meal at one of the nearby restaurants. You can jump over to First Friday and enjoy the events. The WWII memorial wall displays the names of 6,175 who served. It has beautiful lighting and the will display the flags of the five branches of military service. The facility is handicap-accessible. The wall is the brainchild of former City Commissioner Cheryl Spriggs and the Ashland Rotary Club. Spriggs never gave up on this project. She worked on it during her time as a city commissioner and afterwards. Equally impressive is that many of the building components and labor were donated. Local builder W.B. Fosson and Sons managed the construction. Tri-State Building and Trades chipped in with their considerable labor skills. Dixon Electric provided the electrical work and Scioto Block materials for construction. Boyd County sent its youth to fight WWII. Not many veterans of that war are still with us. This is a perfect and appropriate time and location to honor them. This community owes a debt of gratitude to Spriggs and the Rotary Club for not giving up on this most worthy project.
Yahoo2 days agoGeneralYahooIn Our View: WWII wall todayToday is the 81st anniversary of D-Day. It is also a perfect day to visit the dedication of the World War II Memorial Wall at 17th and Carter Avenue in downtown Ashland. The wall will be dedicated at 5 p.m. Also, this Friday is First Friday on Winchester Avenue. Before or after the dedication of the wall, we encourage you to be downtown and enjoy your meal at one of the nearby restaurants. You can jump over to First Friday and enjoy the events. The WWII memorial wall displays the names of 6,175 who served. It has beautiful lighting and the will display the flags of the five branches of military service. The facility is handicap-accessible. The wall is the brainchild of former City Commissioner Cheryl Spriggs and the Ashland Rotary Club. Spriggs never gave up on this project. She worked on it during her time as a city commissioner and afterwards. Equally impressive is that many of the building components and labor were donated. Local builder W.B. Fosson and Sons managed the construction. Tri-State Building and Trades chipped in with their considerable labor skills. Dixon Electric provided the electrical work and Scioto Block materials for construction. Boyd County sent its youth to fight WWII. Not many veterans of that war are still with us. This is a perfect and appropriate time and location to honor them. This community owes a debt of gratitude to Spriggs and the Rotary Club for not giving up on this most worthy project.
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