NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, May 27.
Memorial Day ceremonies are planned across the North Olympic Peninsula.
Here is a list of planned events:
PORT ANGELES
Veterans memorial
PORT ANGELES — The Marine Corps League, Mt. Olympus Detachment VFW, American Legion, Patriot Riders and National Guard, among others, will hold a veterans memorial at Veterans Park on Lincoln Street at 1 p.m. today.
The names of all local veterans will be read and a replica of the Liberty Bell will be rung after each name.
If possible, the American flag will be folded and presented to a family member of one of the deceased.
The Honor Guard will then fire three rifle volleys and the bugler will play taps.
A bagpiper will play before the ceremony and play “Amazing Grace” afterward.
This memorial is also held the last Friday of each month.
Captain Joseph House
PORT ANGELES — The Captain Joseph House Foundation, 1108 S. Oak St., will hold a memorial service from 2 p.m. to
3 p.m. Sunday.
The service will be to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. armed forces.
The event is free and open to the public.
A tour of the Captain Joseph House will follow the service, and refreshments will be provided.
The Captain Joseph House Foundation is a nonprofit created to lend support to Gold Star families.
Gold Star families are parents, siblings, children and spouses of service members who died while on active duty during wartime in the military.
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 of Forks 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.
