MEMORIAL DAY EVENT PLANNED FOR HEADLANDS

DANA POINT-Headlands Reserve, LLC, co-owner of the Dana Point Headlands property, is planning a Memorial Day event with the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 9934, at the site of the proposed Veterans' Memorial on the Headlands property. The event will take place at 3:00 PM Monday, Memorial Day, at the corner of Cove Road and Green Lantern Street, with complimentary parking at the Chart House. The event will be the focus of an informal dedication of the land for the purpose of establishing a veterans' memorial on the site.

Special guests of the event include William Barber, Medal of Honor recipient, state senator William Morrow, William Manes, chairman of the Orange County Veterans Advisory Council, Mitch Higginbotham, of the Tuskegee Airmen, Felix de Weldon, the famous sculpture who created the Washington, D.C. memorial depicting the raising of the United States flag at Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. Marc Ely-Chaitlin, originator of the Dana Point Veterans' Memorial project, will also be on hand. As of this moment it is not known whether or not the city council of Dana Point will be on hand for the ceremony, but it was reported that at the late night city council meeting, after most of the veterans had left, the mayor was overheard remarking that she felt that a veterans' memorial was one of the "stupidest things" to build in Dana Point.

SOURCE: Information for this article was derived from the 27 May, 1999, issue of the Dana Point News, owned by the Orange Co. Register.

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