The University of La Verne partnered with the city of La Verne and the La Verne Veterans of Foreign Wars organization to recognize servicemen and servicewomen for Veterans Day Friday at Veterans Hall on Bonita Avenue.
Robert Kehrberg, 25, an Air Force veteran who served for five years, had a “team” to depend on every day while working 12-hour shifts from midnight to noon, seven days a week. In Kuwait, from 2012-13 he was an integrated avionics systems specialist, which means he maintained and fixed planes.
The sun was beating down unforgivingly on Jahi Gains, senior psychology major, and ice cold watermelon juice dribbled down his chin but that did not stop him from victory Sept. 9 at the Campus Activity Board’s Eat Feat: Watermelon Edition.