EDITOR’S NOTE: Corrects the amount being donated to the Captain Joseph House Foundation by the Schultz Family Foundation and adds a ceremony in Port Angeles on Monday.
Memorial Day ceremonies are planned across the North Olympic Peninsula.
All of the ceremonies are planned Monday except for today’s Memorial Day weekend service at the Captain Joseph House in Port Angeles.
The Captain Joseph House Foundation is hosting the free service from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at 1108 S. Oak St., Port Angeles.
The service will be followed by a tour of the Captain Joseph House and refreshments.
The guest speaker will be Sarah R. Vargo, survivor outreach services support coordinator with the Washington National Guard.
A representative of the Schultz Family Foundation of Seattle will present a wreath.
Victoria Walkup of Port Angeles High School will sing the national anthem.
Joe Borden, who is retired from the Army and is vice president of the Captain Joseph House Foundation, will present a welcome to guests and later lead tours.
Also participating will be American Legion Post 29, Multi-Age Community students from Franklin Elementary School, Civil Air Patrol cadets and the Marine Corps League Honor Guard Mt. Olympus Detachment.
The nonprofit Captain Joseph House Foundation is creating a first-in-the-nation refuge for grieving families of fallen service members.
Betsy Reed Schultz is converting the former Tudor Inn bed-and-breakfast on Oak Street in Port Angeles into the refuge in memory of her son, Capt. Joseph Schultz, who was killed May 29, 2011, in Afghanistan.
The refuge is for Gold Star families — parents, siblings, children and spouses of service members who died while on active duty during wartime in the military.
The Schultz Family Foundation was established in 1996 by Howard and Sheri Schultz. Howard Schultz is the chairman, CEO and president of the Starbucks Corp.
The foundation also is giving the Captain Joseph House Foundation a $10,000 donation, Betsy Reed Schultz said.
Services elsewhere on the Peninsula are:
PORT ANGELES
Memorial Day ceremony
PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Veterans Association will sponsor a Memorial Day ceremony at Mount Angeles Memorial Park at 9:30 a.m. Monday.
VFW Post 1024 will perform the ceremony at 45 Monroe Road to honor deceased service members.
It will be at the flagpole in the Veterans Circle at the south end of the grounds.
PORT TOWNSEND
Quilts of valor
PORT TOWNSEND — Quilts will be presented to local World War II and Korean War veterans at the Marvin G. Shields Memorial Post’s Memorial Day observance at the American Legion, corner of Monroe and Water streets, at 11 a.m. Monday.
The Port Townsend Summer Band will present a half-hour concert at 10:30 a.m. at the American Legion immediately preceding the 11 a.m. ceremonies.
The featured speaker at the ceremonies will be U.S. Navy Cmdr. Nicholas A. Vande Griend, the commanding officer of Naval Magazine Indian Island.
The public is invited to attend.
The Quilts of Valor Foundation is a national group whose mission is to provide a quilt for each veteran who has been affected by war.
For more information, phone Karl Bach, board member, Post 26 American Legion, at 360-344-3658 or email flamacue@outlook.com.
SEQUIM
Joint ceremony
SEQUIM — Memorial Day ceremonies will be held in the city Monday beginning at Sequim View Cemetery at 11 a.m.
This is a joint ceremony with American Legion Post 62 and Sequim VFW Post 4760.
From there, the American Legion will go to Jamestown Cemetery at 11:30 a.m., Dungeness Cemetery at noon and Blue Mountain Cemetery at 12:45 p.m.
The public is invited to join in placing U.S. flags on veterans’ graves at Sequim View Cemetery at 9 a.m. Saturday.
American Legion Post 62 places and retrieves the flags.
To volunteer to help, call Cmdr. Carl Bradshaw at 360-775-1477.
FORKS
City ceremony
FORKS — The city will host a Memorial Day program at the Veterans Memorial and city flagpole at 11 a.m. Monday.
The Fletcher-Wittenborn VFW Rifle Squad and the Cub Scouts of Pack 4467 will participate.
The public is welcome to attend.
