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Community Invited to Nov. 8 Veterans Day Ceremony at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø

Contact:  ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Veterans Outreach Center, (360) 650-6115, or AS.VOC@wwu.edu
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BELLINGHAM – Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to a Veterans Day Ceremony from noon to1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8 in Western Washington University’s Viking Union Multipurpose Room.

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

Featured speakers include: Western Provost Brent Carbajal; Western student and former U.S. Navy Fleet Marine Corpsman Chanan Suarez; Western Veterans’ Outreach Center coordinator and former U.S. Navy Submarine veteran Jesse Atkins, and Gold Star  mother and veterans’ advocate, Doris Kent.

The ceremony is co-sponsored by the Veterans Outreach Center and Western’s President’s Office.

A live video stream will be available at .

In observance of the holiday, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø classes will not be held on Veterans Day on Monday, Nov. 11; this is also an employee holiday.

Parking enforcement on campus will be suspended in all lots from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8. This does not include reserved or disability parking spaces. See the campus parking map at: .

For more information please call: (360) 650-7545.