Special Memorial Day events are planned here

HARTINGTON — Area residents can attend many different events to honor Memorial Day this year.

Memorial Day services will be held at all area cemeteries and the Cedar County Courthouse, complete with honor guards and a 21-gun salute.

Names of all soldiers buried at each cemetery will 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., Friday.

The activities will begin at 7 a.m., Monday, at the Paragon Cemetery.

The next ceremony is 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 10:45 a.m.

The Hartington Area Veterans Memorial will also hold an open house that day from 9 a.m.-noon. Complimentary coffee, juice and donuts will be served during the event.

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 the Bow Valley Cemetery at 10 a.m.

Activities resume at the Wynot Public Cemetery at 10:30 a.m., and at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Wynot at 10:45 a.m.

The final two ceremonies of the day are at St. James, 11 a.m., and Obert, 11:30 a.m.