The Columbia Press
May 28, 2021
Memorial Day offers chance for reflection
Those who died to keep
America free will be honored
across the country and locally
Monday in Memorial Day ob-
servations.
This will be the second and,
hopefully, last year that Me-
morial Day observances are
different because of the pan-
demic. Yet the importance of
the day has not changed.
“May we never forget our
fallen heroes,” said Kelly
Fitzpatrick, a retired Army
officer and Oregon’s director
of the Department of Veter-
ans Affairs. “They were the
best our country had to offer
and their memory inspires us
to be better. Their courage
moves us. The world is a bet-
ter place because of them, be-
cause they lived and because
they served.”
Here are a few ways to hon-
or those who sacrificed for us.
Wars, Fort Stevens 10580
Post and Auxiliary, will put
up flags at Fort Stevens Na-
tional Cemetery, 1090-1140
Russell Drive. There will not
be a ceremony this year, in
keeping with COVID-19 pro-
tocols. The cemetery is open
daily from dawn to dusk and
includes burials as old as
1865.
Visit a military cemetery
The annual Memorial Day
The Veterans of Foreign
Attend a service
History in the Making
A look at Warrenton’s top stories from
The Columbia Press annals
Warrenton Waterfront Trail is dedicated
May 2011
10 years ago
• The city approves a $26.2
million budget for fiscal year
2011-12. City Manager Bob
Maxfield warns that water
and sewer rate hikes are im-
minent.
• The Warrenton High
School Band won the 3A state
band competition for the
fourth year in a row.
• Warrenton High School’s
boys track team wins the
league championship for the
first time in the team’s histo-
ry.
May 1996
25 years ago
• A 22-year-old clerk at CJ’s
Speedy Mart, corner of High-
way 101 and Marlin Avenue,
is bound with duct tape and
knocked unconscious by rob-
bers who stole $200 from the
till. The clerk was found a
short time later by a custom-
er, who called police.
• The city approves a $5.25
million budget for fiscal year
1996-97. Looming in the fu-
ture is construction of a new
city water treatment facility
and a city municipal building.
• The Warrenton Water-
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Dozens attend a Memorial Day ceremony on the plaza near the
Warrenton Post Office in 1991. Many had donated money to in-
stall flags and poles honoring members of the armed services.
front Trail is opened follow-
ing a ceremony at Carruthers
Park.
May 1991
30 years ago
• About 200 people attend
the Memorial Day dedication
of flags in the small park in
front of the Warrenton Post
Office. Community members
began raising money during
the Gulf War to purchase
and install seven flags, one
for each branch of the armed
forces, service members who
were prisoners of war or
missing in action, and the
U.S. flag.
• The Triumph Memorial
is moved to Seafarers Park
at the Hammond Marina
and dedicated in a brief cer-
emony. The memorial stone
honors five U.S. Coast Guard
members who died in 1961
while attempting to rescue
the crab boat Mermaid.
• Honor cords are given to
six Warrenton High School
seniors who will wear them
during graduation ceremo-
nies. The high achievers
are Diana Morimoto, Claire
Oldridge, Jeffrey Gardner,
Jeanne Prince, Sheri Haskell,
and Erica Nowlin.
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Service at Uniontown Mar-
itime Memorial Park will
be virtual. Members of the
Uniontown Association and
others have prerecorded the
memorial service and the
reading of the names en-
graved on the wall.
This year’s service is ded-
icated to Leroy Adolphson,
longtime board member of
the Uniontown Association
and steward of the Maritime
Memorial Park. The service
will be broadcast on KMUN
Community radio, 91.9 FM,
at 4 p.m. on Memorial Day.
Watch virtually
The VA will honor the na-
tion’s fallen service members
during a virtual statewide
ceremony. Fitzpatrick will
serve as emcee and one of the
speakers.
The event includes prere-
corded elements filmed on lo-
cation at the Oregon Korean
War Memorial in Wilsonville,
including a color guard cere-
mony, the national anthem,
wreath-laying and Taps.
The ceremony is at 10 a.m.
Monday via Facebook Live,
facebook.com/odvavet.