• Purple Heart Parking Space At Wildomar VFW

Boy Scout Willy Urrutia, of Troop 2011, chose the Wildomar VFW to be the spot for his Eagle Scout project.

Willy Urrutia poses for a pic at the end of a long day. Behind him volunteers are adding detail to the Purple Heart insignia.

The project was to convert the front parking stall to one reserved for combat wounded veterans.

Willy counted over twenty volunteers that have contributed time to this project, something he started a year ago and had spent more than twenty hours putting it together. Not to mention most of the last three weekends.

A look at the rough first pass, before more detail was added.

The key donors to this project were Lowe's and Home Depot, and he mentioned Luanne Vicnaire and Bridgette Moore as being pivotal in getting this project to fruition.

Painting volunteers (Willy Urrutia, Sr., Itzel Urrutia, Isabel Weaver) getting the details right while Hector Pereyra, Joshua Flannery and Luanne Vicnaire look on.

I asked Willy what he's learned during the process.

One key thing that I learned is that not everything has to be so formal. Everything is, honestly, easier than you'd expect. Reaching out helps a lot as well. Reaching out is your key thing out of [the things I've learned]. Reaching out has helped me get volunteers which helped me get my hours up. Reaching out got me all the materials that I needed, and it brought a lot of people together.

—Willy Utturia

A Veteran's Day crowd of about 30 people watched as the new Combat Wounded/Purple Heart parking space was dedicated at VFW Post 1508. 

If all goes well with this parking space, another is planned for Marna O'Brien park. 

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