Replacement plaques being placed on Veterans Memorial Wall

Editor’s note: This corrects the name of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 497 member Larry Jess, whose name originally was misreported to the Havre Daily News.

A local jeweler is engraving new veteran memorial plaques to replace some plaques on the Veterans Memorial Wall by Town Square.

Heirloom Jewelers owner Jan Leibel said they use an engraving machine to do the plaques for the Veteran Memorial.

Veteran Larry Jess brought her the plates, she said, he wanted to replace plastic ones on the wall because they were cracking and were discoloring.

"I told him that if he wanted me to help out with, it...