Services to recognize fallen soldiers

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 2281 will host services on Memorial Day, May 27, to recognize and honor those soldier who made the ultimate sacrifice.

The post will have a flag service and honor guard salute at both cemeteries — 11 a.m. at Monument Hill and 11:30 a.m. at Riverside — and will place a wreath in the river from the Park Street Bridge at noon.

The public is invited to attend all three services.

The Big Horn Basin Freedom Riders will be setting up Hawk’s Avenue of Flags at Monument Hill Cemetery on Memorial Day, beginning at 7 a.m.

This marks the third year for the Avenue of Flags, which was created in 2016, in memory of Airman First Class Donald L. “Hawk” Hawkins by his wife Betty Hawkins and daughter Julie Lehman though the memorial is for all veterans.