BRIDGE DEDICATION CEREMONY IN LIGONIER

Officials were in Ligonier Valley Cemetery for a special bridge dedication ceremony on Saturday. The Trib reports that state officials were on hand to dedicate the nearby bridge on Route 711 over Loyalhanna Creek as the Staff Sgt. Alvin P. Carey and Pvt. John C. Ewing Medal of Honor Memorial Bridge. The two are congressional medal of honor recipients, Carey for his service in World War II, where he was killed in action in France, and Ewing for his service to the Union Army in the Civil War.