Memorial statue unveiled at cemetery

MacKenna Jones' Fallen Soldier memorial statue at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake was unveiled in a big way this month.

"I grew up around veterans and my dad is one, too. He served in the Navy for 27 years. We also recently lost a friend of ours from church who was a Pearl Harbor survivor," she said in a June 2013 Cheney Free Press interview.

The memorial statue was unveiled Saturday, Nov. 2 at the veterans cemetery, featuring numerous community groups from throughout the Spokane region.

Jones, a Cheney High School student, began working on the project last August after...