The Sunnyside Fire Department and Yakima County Fire District #5 will be honoring the life of retired Fire Chief James Stanton at a memorial service on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 10:00 am. The funeral service will be held at the Grace Brethren Church located on the corner of Franklin Avenue and 7th Street in Sunnyside. The memorial will include a church service, a procession of fire apparatus along 7th Street to East Edison, along East Edison to Zillah Avenue to N. 1st Street continuing on to Scoon Rd to Van Belle Road to the Sunnyside Cemetery. Please expect some street closures around the Grace Brethren Church and the Sunnyside Fire Department located at 513 S. 8th Street. Out of town fire apparatus will be staged at the Sunnyside City Pool parking lot near the intersection of 5th and Franklin Ave.

For more information contact the Sunnyside Fire Department at 509-837-3999.

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