VFW Auxiliary Breakfast: Come support the local VFW Auxiliary and their veterans programs by attending their monthly breakfast fundraiser at VFW Post 1676, 500 Washington Ave., Detroit Lakes. The menu is pancakes, sausage and eggs, or biscuits and sausage gravy, with a choice of juice or coffee, all for a donation of $7. Breakfast will be served from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Monday, November 11
HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY! Most local, state, and federal offices will be closed in observance of the holiday, along with banks, libraries and many public service agencies.
DLHS Veteran’s Day Celebration: All area military veterans, including active duty personnel, are invited to Detroit Lakes High School for a full morning of Veteran’s Day-related activities, starting with a free breakfast in the school commons at 7:45 a.m. There will be a veterans’ recognition ceremony in the Lakeshirts Fieldhouse at 8:45 a.m., after which many of the veterans will be paired up for visits to various classrooms in the high school, where they will talk about their military experiences with students from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Then at 10:45 a.m., the public is invited to join the veterans and students back inside the fieldhouse for a formal Veterans Day program, to include the presentation of the colors by the Lake Region Veterans Color Guard and a keynote address. The morning’s festivities will conclude with a 21-gun salute and playing of “Taps” outside the fieldhouse. All are welcome to attend the public ceremony.