PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Coast Guard station on Ediz Hook will host its annual regional observance of Veterans Day at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The public is welcome to attend and can enter the facility from the front gate at 1 Ediz Hook starting at 9:15 a.m.
Due to enhanced security requirements, all guests are required to present valid government-issued identification.
No visitors can carry a weapon on their person or in their vehicle. No walk-ons will be allowed on base.
The guest speaker will be Tom Beard, who retired as a lieutenant commander from the Coast Guard, where he worked as a rescue pilot.
Beard wrote The Coast Guard, which was published in 2004.
Music will be provided by the Port Angeles High School band and choir, the Coast Guard said.
The station has been designated a regional Veterans Day observance site for the 19th consecutive year by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The ceremony will be sponsored by the Clallam County Veterans Association.
The veterans group will host a coffee-and-cookie social at the Clallam County Veterans Center, 216 S. Francis St., immediately following the ceremony on Ediz Hook.
Nearly 700 guests packed the helicopter hangar at the Coast Guard base for the ceremony in 2014.
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