Memorial Day ceremonies are planned across the North Olympic Peninsula today:
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. today.
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. today.
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 today 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. today.
The Fletcher-Wittenborn VFW Rifle Squad and the Cub Scouts of Pack 4467 will participate.
The public is welcome to attend.
