and last updated 2021-04-29 02:35:52-04
Today marks one year since the non-profit Welcome Home Military Heroes began honoring veterans on Central Coast.
The Arroyo Grande-based organization started the tradition in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We realized the Central Coast and the community needed this and they needed to get out and honor our military heroes during this time, said Robert Tolan Jr., co-founder and vice president of Welcome Home Military Heroes. They needed something positive in their life.â
In the last year, the organization has honored 156 veterans from Cambria to Santa Barbara with vehicle salutes. The veterans range in age from as young as 20 to as old as 107.
Welcome Home Military Heroes celebrates two WWII veterans birthdays in Arroyo Grande and Cambria
and last updated 2021-01-24 02:38:43-05
Two World War II veterans are celebrating birthdays on the Central Coast with one turning the big 100.
Welcome Home Military Heroes organized drive-by birthday salutes for 96-year-old Howard Scotty Scott in Arroyo Grande and for 100-year-old Kenneth G. Hart in Cambria.
Community members first gathered at Harloe Elementary in Arroyo Grade before making their way to Scott s House around noon.
Then participants drove at least an hour north to meet at the First Baptist Church in Cambria to salute Hart outside his home.