Memorial Day events in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa
Here is a list of events taking place.
Posted: May 28, 2021 7:42 AM
Updated: May 28, 2021 7:43 AM
All events on Monday, May 31 unless otherwise noted.
IOWA
Mason City – 9:30 am. Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery. Activities include Mason City High School Concert band, vocal performance, invocation and benediction, a reading of the Gettysburg Address by the Boy Scouts, a flag salute, the Mayor s proclamation, a reading of General Orders #11, wreath-laying ceremony by several patriotic organizations. Guest speaker Capt. Joan Platz, part of only the second graduating class from the United States Naval Academy that included women.
Clear Lake – 9:30 am assembly at Lake Front. Activities include Clear Lake High School Band, Casting of the Wreath. Clear Lake Cemetery Program. Opening Remarks by Officer of the Day: Steve Merrill, USA (Ret). Placing of roses. Speaker of the Day: Lance Ashland, USAF (Ret). Roll Call of Deceased
Clear Lake
VFW Saratoga Post 4868 is hosting a Memorial Day program starting at 9:30 a.m., May 31 at the seawall. The Clear Lake High School band will perform the National Anthem and the Navy Hymn. Local veterans will offer the welcome, opening prayer, and casting of the wreath.
Following the laying the wreath, ceremonies will move to Clear Lake Cemetery, where the CLHS band will play America, the Beautiful. Local veterans will provide opening remarks, the opening prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, Speaker of the Day and Benediction. Roses will be laid by representatives of each conflict in which the US was involved.
A rural S.D. community ignored the virus for months. Then people started dying. Annie Gowen Maskless residents walk past storefronts in Mitchell, S.D., on Nov. 22. A day later, the city council voted on a citywide mask mandate. (KC McGinnis for The Washington Post) MITCHELL, S.D. A cold wind whipped through the prairie as they laid Buck Timmins to rest. Timmins, a longtime coach and referee, was not the first person in Mitchell, S.D., pop. 15,600, to die of the coronavirus. He was not even the first that week. As the funeral director tucked blankets over the knees of Timmins’s wife, Nanci, Pastor Rhonda Wellsandt-Zell told the small group of masked mourners that just as there had been seasons in the coach’s life basketball season, football season, volleyball season Mitchell was now enduring a phase of its own.