Memorial Day services are planned across the North Olympic Peninsula today.
In Port Angeles, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1024 will perform a Memorial Day ceremony at 9:30 a.m. at Mount Angeles Memorial Park cemetery.
The ceremony will be held at the veterans circle at the cemetery at 45 S. Monroe Road.
The Marine Corps League Mt. Olympus Detachment’s Honor Guard will fire three rifle volleys during the ceremony.
Volunteers are needed to raise large flags at 7 a.m. and smaller flags on veterans’ graves at 8 a.m. at the memorial park and Ocean View Cemetery, 3127 W. 18th St.
Flags will be removed at 4 p.m.
Fore more information or to volunteer, phone John Kent at 716-880-6695.
Other commemorations in the area:
In Port Townsend, quilts will be presented to 15 local veterans at the Marvin G. Shields Memorial Post’s 25th annual Memorial Day observance at three cemeteries starting at 10 a.m.
The post’s Honor Guard will be at Fort Worden Cemetery at 10 a.m., Laurel Grove Cemetery at 10:30 a.m. and St. Mary’s Cemetery at 11 a.m.
The Port Townsend Summer Band will present a half-hour concert at 11:30 a.m. at the American Legion on the corner of Monroe and Water streets immediately preceding the noon ceremonies.
A potluck buffet provided by the legion will follow the services.
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 information, phone Karl Bach, board member of Post 26 American Legion, at 360-344-3658 or email flamacue@outlook.com.
In Sequim, Memorial Day ceremonies will be held in the city beginning at Sequim View Cemetery at 11 a.m. This is a joint ceremony with the American Legion 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.
All cemeteries will have flags on marked veterans’ graves from Saturday morning until this evening.
American Legion Post 62 places and retrieves the flags.
To volunteer to help, call Cmdr. Carl Bradshaw at 360-775-1477.
In Gardiner, the public is invited to attend Gardiner Community Cemetery’s Memorial Day services at 12:30 p.m.
The Sequim VFW Post 4760 and American Legion will have a combined ceremony at the cemetery, 137 Gardiner Cemetery Road.
For more information, contact Diane Martin at moviusdl@gmail.com or 360-797-7515.
In Forks, a Memorial Day program will be held at the Forks Cemetery on Calawah Way at 11 a.m.
The Fletcher-Wittenborn VFW Rifle Squad and the Cub Scouts of Pack 4467 will participate.
The scouts will also lower the flag at Forks City Hall and the Forks Transit Center.
The public is welcome to attend.
