Memorial Day ceremonies are planned across the North Olympic Peninsula Monday.
Here is a list:
Port Angeles
• A traditional Memorial Day program with music by Port Angeles performers at the Captain Joseph House will be presented free and online at 1 p.m. Monday.
The Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts will stream the 30-minute program via its YouTube channel, youtube.com/JFFAPA, and on the JFFA Facebook page.
Filmed on the grounds of the Captain Joseph House in Port Angeles, this tribute features Gailey Music Studio students Emi, Lily and Mary Halberg performing the national anthem; Abby Sanford, Avery Saul and Katie Cobb singing “The Light of the Gold Star” and Doug and Jolene Dalton Gailey offering Iron & Wine’s “Love Vigilantes.”
Betsy Reed Schultz, founder of the Captain Joseph House Foundation, will speak during the program, as will JFFA founder Karan Hanan.
In addition, viewers who have lost loved ones who served in the military are encouraged to use the online chat and comments to remember them. Kayla Oakes and Kari Chance of the Juan de Fuca Foundation will welcome these comments.
• Unlike in past years, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1024 does not plan a ceremony at Port Angeles Memorial Park Cemetery on Memorial Day.
Sequim
Post 62 of the American Legion and Post 29 of the American Legion will host Memorial Day ceremonies at local cemeteries Monday.
Services will be at 11 a.m., Sequim View Cemetery, 1505 Sequim-Dungeness Way; 11:30 a.m., Jamestown Cemetery, Cemetery Road; noon, Dungeness Cemetery, 2153 Lotzgesell Road; and 12:45 p.m., Blue Mountain Cemetery, Blue Mountain Road.
Gardiner
The Sequim Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4760 will conduct Memorial Day services at Gardiner Community Cemetery at 12:30 p.m. Monday.
A flag will be displayed on each veteran’s grave site, around the cemetery and down the sidewalk.
The public is invited, but parking is limited so carpools are recommended.
The Gardiner Cemetery is the burial place for Marvin G. Shields, a Jefferson County native and the only U.S. Navy Seabee to be given the Medal of Honor.
For more information, call any of the cemetery commissioners: Jim Hueter, 360-681-2766; Terry Wood, 360-797-0066; or Diane Martin, 360-797-7515.
Forks
A Memorial Day ceremony will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday at the Forks Cemetery on Calawah Way.
Veterans of Foreign Wars Fletcher-Wittenborn Post 9106, the city of Forks, American Legion Post 106, Boy Scouts and other groups will provide a brief program.
For more information, call 360-640-2581.
Port Townsend
The Marvin Shields Post 26 American Legion and Elks Lodge 317 will observe Memorial Day at local cemeteries Monday.
The post will conduct services at 10 a.m. at Fort Worden Cemetery, 2213 Spruce St.; 10:30 a.m. at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Cemetery Street; 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, 4299 San Juan Ave.; and at 11:30 a.m. at City Pier, 103 Hudson St.
Services at each site will include a wreath laying, a prayer, a gun salute by the honor guard and the playing of taps.
Chimacum
The Bruce F. Matheson Post 7498 Veterans of Foreign Wars will host a memorial ceremony at 3 p.m. Monday.
The ceremony will be at Greenwood Cemetery, 9099 state Highway 19, Chimacum.
Don Clayton, a Marine veteran from the Korean conflict, use a sharp tool to poke a hole in the ground and then places an American flag near the grave of a service member. In preparation for Memorial Day, volunteers went to Ocean View Cemetery to place small flags on all the graves of former service members they could locate. They placed hundreds of flags Saturday morning to honor and remember those who gave their service to the country. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
