Colfax Marine honored with quilt

Colfax High School graduate Caleb Lyon’s service with the U.S. Marines will be warmer thanks to a quilt he received from a local quilting guild Tuesday morning.

Lyon has served with the Marines since he graduated from Colfax with the class of 2007. He served an eight-month tour as a prison guard in Iraq.

“I really grew to appreciate the Marines,” said Tami Drader, a member of the Whitman Samplers group that made Lyon’s quilt. “You guys really put yourselves out there on the line.”

Drader served 24 years in the Navy and trained and worked alongside Marines while with the Navy’s chaplains corps....