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CHERYL SCHWEIZER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 years, 2 months AGO
by CHERYL SCHWEIZER
Senior Reporter Cheryl Schweizer is a journalist with more than 30 years of experience serving small communities in the Pacific Northwest. She began her post-high-school education at Treasure Valley Community College and enerned her journalism degree at Oregon State University. After working for multiple publications, she has settled down at the Columbia Basin Herald and has been a staple of the newsroom for more than a decade. Schweizer’s dedication to her communities and profession has earned her the nickname “The Baroness of Bylines.” She covers a variety of beats including health, business and various municipalities. | November 14, 2016 12:00 AM

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Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald Scouts from Pack 74 presented the colors and led the Pledge of Allegiance during a Veterans Day ceremony at Monroe House Friday.

MOSES LAKE — The five Monroe House residents who are military veterans were the first recognized on the new wall honoring veterans at the facility.

Bob Boucher, Al Dinsmore, John “Carl” LeFave, Lars Johnson and Clyde Owen each received a picture recognizing their years of service, presented by Moses Lake mayor Todd Voth. Shelley Baer accepted a picture for her dad, the late Lester “Cub” Baer, a resident at the time of his death.

Boucher and Owen are World War II veterans; so was Baer. Owen served from 1940 to 1968 and was, among other things, the last commander of Larson Air Force Base. He also served in the Korean War and Vietnam. Boucher was in the military from 1942 to 1945 and joined the Civil Air Patrol in 1950 (he's still a member). Boucher received a Purple Heart.

Baer was in the U.S. Air Force and its predecessor, the Army Air Force, from 1942 to 1968, Shelley Baer said. He served in Korea and Vietnam and received the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Johnson was in the Washington National Guard 1968-72 and is a Vietnam veteran. He proudly wore his two Purple Hearts to the ceremony. LeFave was in the U.S. Army 1950-54 and is a Korean War veteran.

They are the first pictures on the wall, and Monroe House director Linda Edwards said others would be added as vets move in.

Voth said Edwards asked him to hand out the pictures, and “I couldn't say yes fast enough.” He thanked the veterans for what they had done to keep the county free and safe.

Scouts from Pack 74 presented the colors and led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Cheryl Schweizer can be reached via email at education@columbiabasinherald.com.

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