Kids & Family
Veterans Honored by Scouts & Lions Clubs of Albany & Nearby Cities
Cub and Boy Scouts along with members of Lions Clubs from Albany, Berkeley, Crockett and El Cerrito placed flags at the graves of veterans at Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito on Veterans Day today, Monday.
The annual Veterans Day flag-planting remembrance at Sunset View Cemetery drew scouts and Lions Club representatives from Albany, Berkeley, El Cerrito and Crockett this morning, Monday.
We thank Albany Lions Club President Bruce Dixon for the accompanying photos and his message on the Albany Patch Facebook page:
"Representatives from the Albany, Berkeley, West Berkeley, El Cerrito and Crockett Lions Clubs gathered this morning to plant flags on the graves of veterans at Sunset View Cemetery. Also present were members of Cub Scouts Pack 3, Pack 30 and Pack 82. Boy Scouts Troop 6, Troop 24 and Troop 100. The event was sponsored by the El Cerrito Lions Club."
Also attending were scouts from Troops 19 and 104, he said.
Also attached to this article are photos from the San Francisco Veterans Day parade taken by Emeryville photographer Nick Sebastian.
Published Nov. 11, 2013, 9:08 p.m.; updated Nov. 12, 10:58 a.m.
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