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They Are Heroes to All of Us Families and Friends Gather to Honor Veterans to Afghanistan, 100 Years of the American Veteran.” Retired Lt Vista del Lago Make Holiday defeats Cordova Wishes Come True in Playoff Opener in Rancho Cordova PAGE 13 PAGE 4 Grapevine ndependent VOLUMEI 5047 • • ISSUE ISSUE 46 25 PROUDLYPROUDLY SERVING SERVING RANCHO RANCHO CORDOVA CORDOVA & SACRAMENTO & COUNTYSACRAMENTO SINCE 1968 COUNTY NOVEMBERJune 19, 17, 20152017 A TRUE HERO AND SURVIVOR They Are Heroes to All of Us Families and Friends Gather to Honor Veterans to Afghanistan, 100 years of the American Veteran.” Retired Lt. Col. Bob Burns, U.S. Army, was the only veteran there to have served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam wars. Burns served as Master of Ceremonies for the event. PAGE 2 Col. Joseph P. Gleichenhaus, U.S. Army, California State Command Inspector General, provided the keynote address. Veterans Day, as opposed to Memorial Day, he said, honors all American veterans both living and dead, and IRS SAYS PLAN AHEAD FOR is largely intended show appreciation for the 2018 FILING SEASON TO living. “You’ve got a lot of very alive veter- ans out here today, and I do thank you for your AVOID REFUND DELAYS presence,” Gleichenhaus said. “I thank you all for your service, the veterans who are here, whether you (traveled) or remained here at home, whether you saw combat action or not, you served. You volunteered or you honor- ably served and you provided a service to our nation and our way of life.” River City Concert Band consisting of more than 60 volunteer musicians provided rous- ing and historical music to fit the occasion, starting with the National Anthem and ending PAGE 5 with God Bless America, the audience join- ing in with those two songs. The band offered more music throughout the program, as well as before and after. A number of people donated engraved bricks in honor of veterans that will be permanently affixed at the entrance to the VA Hospital. DA GETS THE According to retired Lt. Col, U.S. Army Dr. Dawn Erckenbrack, now Associate Director, BAD GUYS Sacramento Valley VA Northern California Retired Airforce nurse Kiyo Sato (top photo) (94) Health Care System, a total of 2,328 bricks met Royal Canadian Air Force officers from a have been placed in honor of those who have contingent stationed at Beale AFB. Photo by Susan Skinner served, with room for a total of 8,000 bricks to Keynote speaker Col. Joseph P. Gleichenhaus grace the area. (bottom left), U.S. Army, said, “Nobody prays Other dignitaries spoke to the crowd. In for peace more than a service member.” Gleichenhaus is California State Command his address, Dr. Ami Bera, United States Inspector General. Photo by Jose Lopez Congressman said, “On this Veterans Day, to all of the men and women who have served and protected and promoted the American spirit around the world, on behalf of a grateful By Margaret Snider nation, God bless all of you, and God bless the PAGE United States of America.” 10 MATHER, CA (MPG) - On November 11, hun- Jim Nielsen, California State Senator, said dreds of veterans, along with family, friends, about those who would disparage our flag, and supporters gathered at Sacramento our pledge, and our National Anthem, “We Veterans Administration Medical Center need to stand up, all of us, and say ‘no’ to that. in Mather to celebrate Veterans Day. The theme of the observance was “Argonne Continued on page 3 Just Serve: Join the Food Locker Turkey Drive Story and photos neighborhood of 1,200 the JustServe website at by Margaret Snider complete Thanksgiving https://www.justserve.org/ meals in a matter of five projects/. RANCHO CORDOVA, CA (MPG) hours,” said Rev. Deacon You can volunteer - The Cordova Community Walter J. Little, co-cre- to help with the CCFL Food Locker is collecting ator and director of CCFL. Thanksgiving dinner gro- turkeys for Thanksgiving Little is the ordained dea- cery distribution by going in its 26th annual tur- con assigned to St. John to https://www.justserve. key drive. When the Vianney Catholic Church org/projects. Or go to program started 26 years in Rancho Cordova where www.justserve.org and ago, it began small. “We the food locker is located. enter your town or zip have reached the point “The power that is big- code to find a variety of (now) where on Monday ger than I am is confirming projects and ways to serve the 20th we will prob- the validity of us being in your community. ably give away in the able to reach out and help The Cordova people,” Little said. “And Community Food Locker their gratitude for what is the official USDA dis- we have done is so much The Cordova Community Food Locker is staffed by volunteers and is open 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 tribution site in Rancho p.m., Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. more than what we have Cordova. It is located at ever done in terms of giv- allocation. In spite of Distribution hours on and we’ve been doing it so 10497 Coloma Rd, Rancho ing out food.” that generous contribution November 20 will be long it just works.” Cordova. As of December Golden State Water the CCFL urgently needs approximately 8 a.m. – For more information 2015, CCFL had served Company donated 130 more turkeys to fill the 1:30 p.m. “About 8:30 on the turkey drive and over 500,000 families, turkeys to the CCFL on need. They will continue we start actually letting distribution of groceries over 2 million individuals, November 13, as well as to receive turkeys up to and the line go through,” said for Thanksgiving dinners, and food for over 15.5 mil- 90 turkeys to the Rancho including the Nov. 20 dis- Angela Russell, assistant please call 916-364-8973. lion meals. H CCFL volunteer loads one Cordova Elks and 80 tribution date. “WE NEED manager at CCFL. “It of two pallets of turkeys You can sign up to donate donated by Golden State to River City Christian TURKEYS,” Little said, always turns out really or volunteer for the tur- Water Company. Church for further the emphasis being his. good, just very smoothly, key drive by going to www.RanchoCordovaIndependent.com 2 • CARMICHAEL• The Independent TIMES • GRAPEVINE INDEPENDENT • CITRUS HEIGHTS MESSENGER • AMERICAN RIVER MESSENGER • GOLD RIVER MESSENGER •NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 17 17,, 2017 A True Hero and Survivor Battle of Okinawa Survivor Part of Final Battle of World War II By Elise Spleiss than plowing a straight furrow” back 38,000 wounded or missing. Japan home on his family’s 156-acre ranch lost 100,000 men, plus a loss of up to SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) - At in Delhi, California. 150,000 civilian Okinawans. the age of 20, Bob (Junior) Mellor, During his three-month train- Mellor continued his life following had no way of knowing he was soon ing in preparation for the invasion of his Navy days with his high school to be part of what would be known Okinawa, Mellor brought in supplies, sweetheart, Elma Louise Voyles. as ‘history’s greatest conflict on land hauled liberty parties and took sailor They married in 1946, following his and sea’, the Battle of Okinawa, also transfers to other ships on the high discharge from the Navy and her grad- known as Operation Iceberg. Many seas. He participated in a week-long uation with honors from Livingston who unknowingly become a part of shake-down cruise and amphibious High School in Livingston, California. history in the making often just see it landing off Catalina Island before Their first home was a chicken house as part of the job. It is no different for boarding a Landing Craft Infantry in the backyard of Clint Lovelady’s Bob Mellor, now 92. (LCI) headed for Pearl Harbor where Ranch in Delhi, California. They con- His patriotic T-shirts and original he trained in all the sea channels driv- verted the chicken house into their Navy uniforms hanging in his closet, ing a landing craft. home of one year, then moved to a the glass case full of photos and other On March 17, 1945 Mellor was farm in Delhi where Bob work full- service memorabilia are silent remind- assigned to LSM 424 (Landing Ship, time plowing fields and milking the ers of his service while his extensive Medium) and was sent to the south cows. Their toilet was an outhouse. collection of World War II and other islands in the Pacific where he joined In 1950 Mellor took a job at combat movies bring those days back a larger fleet of landing craft and mine McClellan Air Force Base in to life for him. And Bob loves to sweepers. At 203 feet-long, his ship Sacramento where he worked for 34 proudly talk about those days to any resembled a small aircraft carrier and years before retiring as a “Scheduler’ fortunate enough to hear his stories. carried over 100 guns, mortars and for airplane repairs. Bob joined the U.S. Navy on rockets of various sizes. Mellor’s ship The Mellor’s had four children, October 6, 1944 in San Francisco. was part of the fleet that by the end of three adopted over a span of fifteen He took a train to San Diego Naval March would number 1,300 headed years. After two children, they upsized Training Center where he com- to the invasion of Okinawa. Only 325 from their home in North Highlands to pleted his basic training as a Seaman miles from Japan, Okinawa was the 5-acres in Fair Oaks. After 54 years of Apprentice Class on December 28, last stronghold to defeat before reach- marriage, Elma passed away in 2000.
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