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Special activities planned for Monday celebrations
HARTINGTON — Area residents can attend many different events to honor Memorial Day this year.
Special Memorial Day services will be held at all area cemeteries and the Cedar County Courthouse, complete with honor guards and a 21gun salute.
Names of all soldiers buried at each cemetery will also be read aloud during the ceremonies.
In preparation for the big event, volunteers will hang about 200 flags around the courthouse in Hartington honoring area veterans.
VFW Commander Dean McGregor said volunteers are asked to help place the flags around the courthouse at 1 p.m., Saturday.
They will also need help to take down the flags at 2 p.m. Tuesday The activities will begin at 7 a.m., Monday, at the Paragon Cemetery.
The next ceremony will be held at the Fordyce Cemetery at 9 a.m.
The memorial at the courthouse will be held at 10 a.m. The Hartington City Cemetery service begins at 11 a.m.
Services will also be held at St. Michael’s Cemetery, Hartington, at 11:30 a.m.
Wynot American Legion Post 31 will have ceremonies at Menominee at 8:30 a.m., and at the St. Helena Chapel at 9 a.m.
The group will then move to the St. Helena Public Cemetery at 9:25 a.m., and follow that up with a trip to the Bow Valley Cemetery at 10 a.m.
Activities resume at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Wynot at 10:30 a.m., and Wynot Public Cemetery at 10:45 a.m., and The final two ceremonies of the day are at St. James, 11 a.m., and Obert, 11:30 a.m.
The Ladies Auxiliary will host a luncheon at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall, Wynot, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Coleridge will also be celebrating Memorial Day with many different activities planned for the day.
The Coleridge American Legion and Auxiliary will present a Memorial Day program May 26 at the Memorial Plaza in downtown Coleridge.
The traditional ceremony will take place at 11 a.m., Monday, followed by lunch at the Coleridge Community Building from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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