A program honoring veterans that started about six years ago has revitalized with a new design for its commemorative banners.
Banners of Honor Inc., the organization behind the program, brought an example of its new banner design to the Los Alamitos City Council meeting on Monday, March 21. At the meeting, a permit that opened the door for the renewal of the program was authorized by the city council. A modification to an encroachment permit, first authorized when the program started in 2010, was approved and gives Banners of Honor a green light to move ahead with finding sponsors and installing the new banners.
Nearly 150 banners currently hang on street poles throughout Los Al and the Joint Forces Training Base that were installed when the banner program first started.
Those banners were privately funded and installed on various poles on Katella Ave. and Lexington Dr. Several of those banners have weathered, torn or even fallen off since then, which is why a renewal to the program has come about.
Nancy Karmelich, President of Banners of Honors Inc., said the new banners will be available for sponsorship. Residents can expect the new ones to go up around July or August of this year after Karmelich seeks sponsors.
Sponsors will be able to choose the word printed on the banner and have the choice of including their name on it also.
Karmelich said a website for the program was currently being built but those interested can look out for the website www.bannersofhonor.com in the near future.
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