Cheney ceremony, breakfast planning passes to local groups
Cheney VFW and American Legion are working to make sure most of the traditional Memorial Day activities are offered this weekend.
Cheney's annual Memorial Day observances are under new management, and for the most part, are taking place as they have in the past.
For years, the Cheney Cemetery Association organized and sponsored the activities, which included a breakfast, walk to Fairview Cemetery and observance ceremony. But in a late-March press release, the association said its board of directors decided at their February meeting they could no longer continue the practice, saying it was "time for a change."
"Any civic or veteran organization wanting to put on such a program is welcome to do so," the association said in...
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