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Community Invited to Nov. 10 Veterans Day Ceremony at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø

Contact:  ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Veterans Outreach Center, (360) 650-6115, or as.rop.voc@wwu.edu.

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University students, faculty and staff and community members are invited to a Veterans Day Ceremony from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 10 in Western's Viking Union Multipurpose Room.

A reception will immediately follow the ceremony.  Both events are free and open to the public.

Featured speakers will include ²ÝÁñÉçÇø President Bruce Shepard, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø student and ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Vet Corps Navigator Christopher Brown; ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Student Veteran’s Association Coordinator Jordan Linayao; and Doris Kent, former ²ÝÁñÉçÇø employee and gold-star mother of the late Cpl. Jonathan Santos.

Vet Corps, in partnership with Western's Veteran Community and the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Associated Students Veteran Outreach Center, is holding a food drive starting the day of the Veterans Day Ceremony, and will continue the following week. Please donate only non-perishable food items and/or money. Food will be donated to the Combat Veterans International Food Bank, for the area's homeless veterans. Monetary donations will be given to Western's Veteran Community.

In observance of the holiday, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø classes will not be held on Veterans Day on Thursday, Nov. 11; this is also a ²ÝÁñÉçÇø employee holiday. The ceremony is sponsored by the Veterans Outreach Center, and the reception is sponsored by the President’s Office.

Parking enforcement for this community event has been suspended from 11:30 a.m.–1:45 p.m.  This does not include reserved or disability parking spaces. See the campus parking map at: .  For more information call (360) 650-7545.