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Plenty of people gathered together to honor local heroes at the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation’s Fourth of July celebration.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. It was a patriotic affair on Sunday at the Santa Barbara Cemetery, as the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation hosted a Fourth of July celebration.
Plenty of people gathered together to honor local heroes while also bringing back a sense of normalcy.
“It’s a revitalization and rejuvenation of what we do,” Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation co-founder John Blankenship said.
After spending more than six years as a prisoner of war, Vietnam veteran Charlie Plumb says that Independence Day is his favorite day.
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Posted on February 5, 2021
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Scott Eugene Cruickshank
Scott Eugene Cruickshank of Santa Barbara, and McCall, Idaho, passed away on Jan. 31, 2021. He was 58 years of age. Scott was born to Brian and Alice Cruickshank in Long Beach, California, on Dec. 26, 1962.
He attended Burbank Elementary School, Jefferson Junior High School, and Woodrow Wilson High School, all in Long Beach. He earned his bachelor s degree at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 1988 with a double major in mathematics and economics, and went on to earn his masters degree in statistics in 1990, also at UCSB.
Scott later pursued doctoral studies in biometry at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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