VIGIL BEGINS MEMORIAL DAY.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Memorial Day observances in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley will begin tonight with a candlelight vigil A candelight vigil is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset. Such events are typically held either to protest at the suffering of some marginalized group of people, or in memory of lives lost to some disease, disaster, massacre or other tragedy. at Joshua Memorial Park. Lancaster Vice Mayor Henry Hearns will be the featured guest speaker at the ceremony, which will start at 7 p.m. in the cemetery, 808 E. Lancaster Blvd. The sponsor is Marine Corps League Detachment 930. This is the seventh year for the Memorial eve observance. Ceremonies are planned for Monday in Lancaster, Palmdale, Rosamond and Quartz Hill. --LANCASTER - Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Joshua Memorial Park, 808 E. Lancaster Blvd., hosted by Lancaster Veterans of Foreign Wars 7283 and its Ladies Auxiliary. Keynote speaker will be retired U.S. Navy Captain Tom Craft. The service will feature a riderless horse, the Highland High School Highland High School or Highlands High School may refer to: In the United States:
--QUARTZ HILL - A Mass will be said by Monsignor Edmund Renehan at 10 a.m. Monday at the Good Shepherd Cemetery, 43121 70th St. W. --PALMDALE - Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Desert Lawn Memorial Park, 2200 E. Ave. S. Services will include the raising of colors by the Highland High School Junior ROTC, and laying of wreaths by veterans organizations. Speakers include Palmdale Mayor James Ledford, 95th Air Base Wing Commander Cheryl Zadlow, Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La Battalion Chief Ollie Linson, Palmdale Mayor Pro Tem [Latin, For the time being.] An abbreviation used for pro tempore, Latin for "temporary or provisional." A person who acts as a temporary substitute serves pro tem. Mike Dispenza, state Sen. W.J. ``Pete'' Knight, R-Palmdale, and Donna Termeer, field representative for Assemblyman George Runner, R-Lancaster. Residents interested in installing American flags at the grave sites should bring a hammer and a flat-head screwdriver and meet at Desert Lawn Memorial Park at 8 a.m. Monday. For more information call Heidi Vose at (661) 267-5611. --ROSAMOND - Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Rosamond Park on Glendower Street. Hosted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9657 and American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Post 490, the event will honor veterans, military, firemen, police and civilians killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and those still involved in the clean-up efforts. Guest speaker will be Don Mabin, assistant to the Kern County Supervisor Seve Perez. A 21-gun salute will be conducted by Marine Rifle Team 46 Marine Air Group Detachment B from Edwards Air Force Base and a lunch will be served after the service at VFW See Video for Windows. Post 9657, 20th Street West and El Rey Street. For more information call Gale Swanson at (661) 276-2493 or (661) 256-9306. -- LANCASTER - Cub Scout Pack 680 will perform their first flag ceremony and Pledge of Allegiance Pledge of Allegiance, in full, Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, oath that proclaims loyalty to the United States. and its national symbol. at 7 a.m. Monday at Lancaster Cemetery, 111 E. Lancaster Blvd. After the ceremony the pack will place flags on the graves of veterans including a British flag on the grave of Meyer Himelstaub, a World War II cadet who died during pilot training at what is now Mira Loma Jail. Coffee, doughnuts and hot chocolate will be served after the placing of the flags. |
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