The dedication will take place beginning at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 26, at the American Legion Hall, 14770 Austin Road, Clearlake.
Carl Webb, a member of the Clearlake Rotary Club – which spearheaded the effort to get the highway designation – said there will be speakers, a Boy Scouts color guard, and representatives from local government and veterans' organizations.
He said Assemblyman Wes Chesbro, who carried the state legislation to get the designation approved, also is invited, as is Congressman Mike Thompson.
Webb said he will do a brief presentation at the Friday event about how the idea to designate the highway in honor of local veterans came about.
He said he was on a fishing trip a few years ago, traveling through the redwoods, when he saw a sign for a Humboldt County Veterans Highway.
“I said, 'How come we don't have one?' And that's what started the whole thing,” he said.
It was, he added, “a long, slow process.”
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