Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here
Otherwise, follow the link below to join.
To Our Valued Readers –
Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.
For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.
Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.
Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.
Need to set up your free e-Newspaper all-access account? click here.
Non-subscribers
Click here to see your options for becoming a subscriber.
Register to comment
Click here create a free account for posting comments.
Note that free accounts do not include access to premium content on this site.
I am anchor
Veterans Day
Veterans Day 2020: Salute Scottsdale's heroes in a new way
Posted
Independent Newsmedia
Scottsdale is virtually celebrating the community’s veterans Wednesday, Nov. 11, with a special lineup of online presentations beginning at 11 a.m.
Scottsdale’s 2020 Veterans Day Commemoration will be available on the city’s Video Network — Cox channels 11 and 1011, or Century Link channel 8001 — or YouTube.com.
Scottsdale’s virtual 2020 Veterans Day Commemoration features:
11 a.m.: Scottsdale Fire Department Pipes & Drums – Veterans Day 2020: Watch a heartwarming performance by the Scottsdale Fire Department Pipes and Drums recorded to commemorate Veterans Day 2020. Pipe bands have long been part of military tradition, most notably in the United Kingdom and its former colonies. The Fire Department Pipes and Drum Band was formed in 2018, and members wear the 343 Firefighter Tartan to honor the 343 firefighters who perished on 9/11.
11:15 a.m.: Honoring Scottsdale Veterans: This video montage showcases Scottsdale veterans or veteran family members from throughout our community.
11:30 a.m.: A conversation with Scottsdale Veterans Advisory Commission Chair Pete Palmer: Mr. Palmer served more than 32 years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, retiring in 2009 as a brigadier general.
Following his Army retirement, Mr. Palmer worked for General Dynamics — the job that brought him to Scottsdale — where he led General Dynamics’ EDGE Innovation Network. Among his current handful of volunteer activities, Mr. Palmer serves as the chair of the city’s Veterans Advisory Commission, which advises the city council on veteran programs, policies and practices and serves as a community connection point for veterans and the community.
Noon: Salute to Scottsdale’s World War II Veterans - Joan Fudala, Scottsdale community historian and veteran, walks through stories about Scottsdale’s World War II veterans, describing their wartime service and post-war community building. She also paints a verbal picture of Scottsdale’s home front and military installations during World War II.
Ms. Fudala is a U.S. Air Force veteran with 21 years of military service on active duty and in the USAF Reserve as a public affairs officer. Her late husband was a Vietnam combat pilot, her father served as an officer in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II, and her mother was a U.S. Army civilian employee at Fort Knox, Kentucky, during World War II.
