FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER NEWSPAPER – A new peace officers memorial at the old courthouse building, 725 Court Street in Woodland, will honor all those officers who fell in the line of duty while working for law enforcement agencies in Yolo County, including the sheriff’s department and West Sacramento Police Department. West Sacramento has lost one [...]
Apr 092013
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — APRIL 3, 2013 – I put together a little section in the News-Ledger most weeks entitled “Across the Bridge” which is meant to give some publicity to events happening around the greater Sacramento area that some of our readers might want to attend. One such calendar announcement came across my desk [...]
Dec 172012
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — DEC 12, 2012 New memorial combines a West Sac man’s work, and his passion – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor In retrospect, it seems obvious: Andrew Yokoyama was a lifelong West Sacramentan, a farmer, an enthusiastic bicyclist. Why not commemorate his life with a bicycle-themed memorial right along the road so [...]
FROM THE WEST SACRAMENTO NEWS-LEDGER — SEPT 12, 2012 – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor The flags returned on Friday, thousands of them, fluttering in just about the same Southport location they have occupied on each anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. There’s one flag for each victim of that day – [...]
FROM THE WEST SACRAMENTO NEWS-LEDGER — SEPT 5, 2012 – Former West Sacramento resident John Vinson reports that he will shortly begin installing hundreds of American flags at the corner of South River Road and Jefferson Boulevard in Southport. Vinson creates the annual flag display as a remembrance of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, [...]
Nov 032011
Plan would create a memorial path of engraved bricks to remember lost West Sacramento residents – NEWS-LEDGER – NOV 2, 2011 – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor An plan to create a memorial walkway to honor lost West Sacramento loved ones is now catching fire, thanks partly to a networks of friends and a Facebook [...]
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