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Former Dayton Mayor Steven Stephens addresses the city council about the Veteran’s Wall.The Vindicator | Travis Huffman
At the Dayton City Council meeting on Monday evening, former City of Dayton Mayor Steve Stephens addressed the council about the Veteran’s Wall in the Dayton Veteran’s Memorial Park. The park located at the Dayton Community Center was built in 2013 and experienced heavy damage during Hurricane Harvey. With a donation of $7,700 from Entergy Texas and a grant, the wall was repaired and restored. After the wall was repaired and rededicated, Stephens met with the Dayton City Manager, Theo Melancon, to discuss the bare spots on the wall and the possibility of grants to help fill the empty spots. Melancon and Dayton Mayor Caroline Wadzeck asked Stephens to obtain fifteen to twenty names to go on the wall and have them by November 15, 2019. Once that date hit, Stephens turned in over 200 names. The wall only had 83 bare spots, so there would be no way to accommodate