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The Sarasota County's Veterans Benefits
Unit, the Sarasota Patriotic Observance Committee and the Venice Area
Veterans Council will honor those who served in the nation’s armed
forces during a Veterans Day parade and ceremonies in Sarasota and
Venice.
The Sarasota parade will begin at 10 a.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 11, at Main Street and Osprey Avenue. The route of the
march will be west along Main Street to Chaplain J.D. Hamel Park on Gulf
Stream Avenue. Col. Richard Bolstad, USAF Ret. and a prisoner of war in
Vietnam for more than seven years, will be the featured speaker at the
ceremony immediately following the parade. The theme of this year’s
parade and ceremony is “Land of the Free Because of the Brave.”
In Venice, the American Legion NO-VELL
Post 159 will host a ceremony beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11.
The event will be held at Patriots Park at the north junction of
Business U.S. 41 and Bypass U.S. 41. The guest speaker will be Andy
Hooker, vice president of the Sarasota County Veterans Commission.
Spectators are encouraged to bring a chair.
“The parade and ceremony is an
opportunity for the citizens of Sarasota to honor not only veterans of
the armed services but police officers, sheriff deputies, fire fighters
and emergency medical personnel,” said Dan Kunkel, Patriotic Observance
Committee president. |
