Sunday marks Memorial Day event in Sandusky

SANDUSKY — Committee members representing the Erie County Veterans Memorial Park in Sandusky will conduct the annual Memorial Day celebration. It will occur at 2 p.m. on Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, 265 Jackson St., Sandusky. Presiding will be Mark Faust, president of the memorial park committee. The guest speaker will be Toby Notestine, a Vietnam War Army Ranger veteran who, for many years, has educated Sandusky's youth attending both Sandusky Schools and Sandusky Central Catholic School. "The committee will also acknowledge the significant financial support of the American Legion Post 83, AMVETS Post 17, the VFW Post 2529 and the Feick Design Group toward the repair and renovation of the Erie County Veterans Memorial Park, to be completed this summer," according to an organizational statement. Immediately following the ceremony, the color guards will lead the audience across the street to Veterans Memorial Park to conclude the ceremony with the dedication of a plaque permanently memorializing the six local military members lost in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The ceremony will end with the veteran organization's placement of memorial tributes at the Erie County's War Dead Memorial, a rifle salute and the sounding Memorial Taps.