On Thursday the Lake Forest Senior Center honored our veterans with an hour-long ceremony. I was privileged to represent the Council. Jim Rosenberg and Victor Sheer were there from the Parks Commission. More than 100 people filled the room to overflowing. More than a dozen Veterans were there, some from World War 2.
This year we made strides honoring our veterans. In June Councilman Robinson and I introduced the idea of re-naming Village Pond Park to Veterans Park and the Council unanimously went along, allocating money to build a monument, but otherwise keeping the design already on the books. The committee met 4 times, mostly veterans, and the final design will come to the Council on November 21.
Earlier this year I proposed that we allocate our affordable housing budget to create homes for Veterans and the Council unanimously agreed. Last month we chose a company to create the plan and we expect to pursue this worthy effort in early 2018, with an initial report coming on Nov 21.
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I also got the staff to create a Veteran's Resource page on the city website.
Veterans are an important part of our community. We need to recognize their service and assist where we can.
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Dr. Jim Gardner is on the City Council for Lake Forest. You can check him out on LinkedIn and/or Facebook and you can share your thoughts about the City at Lake Forest Town Square on Facebook. His comments are not meant to reflect official City Policy.
Dr. Gardner has office hours every Tuesday from 4 pm to 6 pm at the City Hall. In addition, he holds a mini town meeting every quarter. The next meeting will be on Dec 2 at 2 pm at the El Toro Public Library.
