Weekend Events
Veterans Day observance makes for a full schedule
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Friday, November 9, 2007
This Sunday marks Veterans Day and the weekend is packed with activities in observance.
Today
7:30 p.m. Veterans Recognition and USO Show.
This event will be at Albert Taylor Hall in Plumb Hall at Emporia State University. The program will include music, a veterans remembrance ceremony, an award presentation, reading of luminaries and video presentations.
Saturday
7:15 a.m. — Breakfast for veterans, Presbyterian Manor, 2300 Industrial Road.
9:30 a.m. — Veterans Day parade, Downtown Emporia.
11 a.m. — Veterans Day memorial service, Soden’s Grove All Veterans Memorial.
12 p.m. — Veterans Day ham & bean feed, American Legion Post. No. 5 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1980.
Other events in and around Emporia this weekend:
Saturday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Holiday Show: Flint Hills Arts & Craft Sale, Anderson Building, Lyon County Fairgrounds, 342-0767.
Sunday
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Holiday Show: Flint Hills Arts & Craft Sale, Anderson Building, Lyon County Fairgrounds, 342-0767.