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Hometown Heroes banners dedicated at St. Mark’s ceremony

MARK NANCE/Sun-Gazette Correspondent Veterans and family stand during the singing of the National Anthem during the Hometown Heroes Celebration at St. Mark's Lutheran Church Saturday.
MARK NANCE/Sun-Gazette Correspondent U.S.Army Sr. Master Sergeant Harold E. McCloskey, (retired) of Jersey Shore holds his 7 week old great-great-grand daughter Layla May Rhodes, daughter of Ethan and Megan Rhodes of Fort Sill, OK during a family picture after the Hometown Heroes Celebration at St. Mark's Lutheran Church Saturday. McCloskey is a veteran of the Viet Nam war.
MARK NANCE/Sun-Gazette Correspondent GWOT veteran Father Bert S. Kozen of St. John Newmann Regional Academy salutes during the singing of the National Anthem during the Hometown Heroes Celebration at St. Mark's Lutheran Church Saturday.
MARK NANCE/Sun-Gazette Correspondent U.S. Army Captain W. Michael McMunn, (retired), reads the names of the 2022 Hometown Heroes during the Hometown Heroes Celebration at the St. Mark Lutheran Church Saturday.
MARK NANCE/Sun-Gazette Correspondent Congressman Fred Keller greets members of the Marine Corps League Williamsport Detachment #388 color guard before a Hometown Heroes Celebration at the St. Mark Lutheran Church Saturday.
MARK NANCE/Sun-Gazette Correspondent Lycoming County Commissioner Rick Mirabito was the guest speaker during the singing of the National Anthem during the Hometown Heroes Celebration at St. Mark's Lutheran Church Saturday.

Veterans and their families gathered at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Williamsport on Saturday for the Hometown Heroes celebration in honor of Veterans Day. The event was held to retire the past year’s Hometown Hero banners, which grace lightposts on Via Bella in Williamsport, and to dedicate the new ones. Lycoming County commissioner Rick Mirabito and U.S. Rep. Fred Keller, R-Kreamer, were guest speakers. The banners are a project of Lycoming County Hometown Heroes Inc., a nonprofit group organized to recognize the country’s service men and women and to raise money to assist needy veterans and their families, according to a news release.

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