REGION — Veterans Day observances will be held Saturday morning, Nov. 11, in the Tri-Town area with a fundraising breakfast added this year to kick them off.
American Legion George Bunten Post 10, 17 Reynolds Ave. in Livermore Falls will serve breakfast from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. The menu will include pancakes, sausage, bacon, eggs, sausage gravy, biscuits, hash browns, muffins, cinnamon rolls, fruit salad, juices, coffee, tea and perhaps even more. Suggested donations to help support the post are $10 for adults and $5 for those under five years of age.
Veterans eat for free while everyone eats all they can. A drawing will be held to win a gift certificate for a free meal at a later breakfast. The post will also accept canned goods and non-perishable food items for the holiday food drive it is holding through Dec. 14.
At 9:15 a.m. traditional wreath laying observances by the VFW and American Veterans posts in Jay and the American Legion along with their auxiliaries will begin. First stop will be the Fayette War Memorial, located at the Fayette Town Office, Route 17/2589 Main Street. A color guard, prayers, the playing of taps and gun salute will also be included.
At about 9:40 a.m. a similar ceremony will be held at the Jay War Memorial in Chisholm Square located at the intersection of Route 4 and Jewell Street.
“Times are approximate and could vary slightly, earlier or later, based on travel and traffic delays while traveling to each memorial location,” VFW Judge Advocate Jim Manter noted in an email to the Livermore Falls Advertiser last week. “However, we will begin promptly at each location, when the honors teams arrive, so please be patient, and flexible in our timing and schedule.”
The next observance will be about 9:55 a.m. at Union Park off Union Street in Livermore Falls. Another ceremony will take place in Livermore Falls afterwards. At 10:10 a.m. units will march from the bank building parking lot off Route 4 out to the Livermore Falls Memorial Bridge and render honors to lost sailors at sea by dropping a wreath into the Androscoggin River.
The day’s events will end at the Livermore War Memorial, where a dedication-ceremony will occur about 10:30 a.m. Local citizens re-furbished the local monument this summer, Manter noted.
Observances this year were planned at memorials where the most local citizens attend because there are not enough participating members to provide services at all area monuments, he indicated.
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