Memorial Day flyover plannedby Mary Le Arneal Local veterans have Memorial Day Services planned for several area cemeteries for Monday, May 27. Services are being conducted by members of the American Legion Post 340 of Morse Bluff, North Bend’s VFW Post 8223 and the Jeffrey K. Mines AmVets Post 20. Veterans are invited to meet at 6:30 a.m. a the Legion Hall in Morse Bluff for coffee and rolls. Those participating in the cemetery salutes will divide into two groups with one group going to Fleming Cemetery for an 8 a.m. ceremony then going on to Cedar Hill Cemetery for a 9 a.m. program. The second group will take part in services at National and Catholic cemeteries near Linwood a 8 a.m. and at Dawson Cemetery at 9 a.m. The two groups will reassemble at Killian Cemetery for a 10 a.m. ceremony and then at 10:45 at Woodland Cemetery. A flyover consisting of three or four planes out of Columbus is planned to be over the cemetery at 11 a.m. The flyover honors all veterans with a special salute the area’s last WWII veteran, Gene Minarick, who died this year. North Bend Central student Alexa Brodd, who will attend Girls State this summer, will speak at Fleming, Cedar Hill and Killian cemeteries. There will be a Mass at 8 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Cedar Hill, and a 8:30 a.m. Mass at Woodland Cemetery led by St. Charles Catholic Church. After all the ceremonies, there will be a pot luck at the VFW Hall in North Bend for veterans, their families and others participating in the ceremonies. There will be a Memorial Day Mass at St. Mary’s Ridgeley Cemetery, County Rd K, rural Scribner at 10 a.m. Bring lawn chairs if you have difficulty standing and in case of inclement weather Mass will be at St. Charles, North Bend.
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