Area Communities to Stage Veterans Day Programs

Area Communities to Stage Veterans Day Programs

 

 

 

 

 

Milbank Veterans Day Ceremony 
 
Local veterans will be honored in the annual Veterans Day program at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, November 11, in the Milbank National Guard Armory. The public is invited to attend.
The featured speaker will be Major Brandon Frerichs, commander of the Army 189th Aviation Company. Lynn Hardy will perform the invocation.
 
The Milbank High School band and choir will perform several musical selections. Senior trumpet players playing Taps will be Ashlynn Batchelor, Jonathan DeBoer, Anna Neugebauer, Camryn Sovell, and Marnie Van Lith.
 
Veterans organizations participating in the posting of the colors are American Legion Post #9 Color Guard, VFW Post #3486 Color Guard, VFW Auxiliary Color Guard, Legion Auxiliary President and Color Guard, Sons of American Legion, Disabled American Veterans Chapter 19, Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1054, and 740th Transportation Color Guard.
 
 
 
Strandburg Veterans Day Program
 
The community of Strandburg will gather for a Veterans Day program ceremony on Tuesday, November 11, at 7 p.m. at Tabor Church in Strandburg.
 
The American Legion Post 171 of Stockholm-Strandburg will present the color guard.
 
 
 
 
Wilmot Veterans Day Program 
 
The public is invited to attend a Veterans Day program on Tuesday, November 11, at 10 a.m. in the Wilmot School gymnasium.
 
Wilmot music students will present a program of honor and celebration to recognize all veterans.
 
Students are encouraged to invite a local veteran family member or family friend to attend the event.
 
Students and community members can fill out information for each veteran or family member for a paper “brick”. Submissions can be made to Marie Ammann at marie.ammann @k12.sd.us or 605-938-4647 ext. 401.
 
Wilmot students are instructed to wear a red, white or blue shirt and athletics shoes, no heels, boots or sandals.
 

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