Memorial Day ceremonies planned
BRIAN WALKER/bwalker@cdapress.com | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 10 months AGO
Memorial Day ceremonies and activities for the public to attend are planned throughout Kootenai County.
Here is a listing of the ceremonies received by The Press:
COEUR d'ALENE - Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 889 and Cub Scout Troop 3 will place flags at each veteran's headstone at Forest and Riverview cemeteries starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday.
If you have a loved one who served in the military and are not sure if the headstone indicates if they served, you are invited to attend so the headstone will not be missed.
There will be a ceremony at 9 a.m. held by Post 889 at the Veterans Memorial at McEuen Park on Monday. A wreath will be placed in Lake Coeur d'Alene to honor those who were lost at sea and never returned home.
Post 889 will hold a ceremony at 10 a.m. on Monday at St. Thomas Cemetery on East Sherman Avenue and 23rd Street.
At 11 a.m. on Monday there will be a ceremony held by Post 889 at Forest Cemetery, 1011 N. Government Way, near the Civil War statue. The ceremony will honor all veterans who have died. Herbert Kirchhoff, a World War II Bataan Death March survivor, will speak.
The Marine Corps League's ceremony will be at 2 p.m. at Coeur d'Alene Memorial Gardens, 7315 N. Government Way.
POST FALLS - American Legion Post 143 will hold a ceremony at 10 a.m. at Evergreen Cemetery, 2834 N. Spokane St.
HAYDEN - The city of Hayden will hold a ceremony at 10 a.m. on Monday at Honeysuckle Beach with the laying of a memorial wreath honoring those service men and women lost at sea. It will include a prayer, rifle salute and taps. The Honeysuckle Beach boat launch will remain open during the ceremony.
The city's main ceremony will be at 11 a.m. on Monday at the PFC Robert J. Gordon Veterans Memorial Plaza at City Hall.
It will include presentation of colors by the Hayden Veterans Commission, the national anthem sung by commission member Dave Sheldon, placement of a memorial wreath, welcome by Mayor Ron McIntire, a Memorial Day address by John and Stacey Holley, a bagpipe rendition of "Amazing Grace" and a rifle salute. The Holleys' only child, Matthew, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
The ceremony will conclude with taps and the retiring of colors. Refreshments will be served afterward in City Hall.
Government Way in Hayden will close from Orchard Avenue to Honeysuckle Avenue from 10:45 a.m. to noon on Monday for the ceremony. For more information, call 209-1080.
RATHDRUM - American Legion Post 154 and the city will hold a ceremony at Pinegrove Cemetery at noon on Monday. Legion Commander Dee Sasse will give the keynote speech. Mayor Vic Holmes will also speak and place a wreath in remembrance of veterans.
Honor guards from the Legion and Rathdrum Police, Lakeland High students and pastors Dan Nickerson, Dave Cuthbert and Larry Parker will also participate in the ceremony.
There will also be a tolling of the bell to remember four veterans who died in the past year, a rifle salute and taps.
SPIRIT LAKE - There will be a ceremony at noon at Greenwood Cemetery.
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