Community offers plenty of Veteran’s Day events

Highland Lakes community organizations are offering up plenty of activities to celebrate Veteran’s Day Tuesday, Nov. 11, and honor those who have served the nation. Veteran’s Day started as Armistice Day, recognizing the end of WWI on Nov. 11, 1918. Now, social clubs, churches and municipalities recognize the national holiday.

-Rotary Club of Marble Falls Veteran’s Day Ceremony, Veteran’s Memorial in Johnson Park, Marble Falls, noon. This year, a flyover by a P-51D Mustang pilot is scheduled.

-Falls on the Colorado Museum Veteran’s Commemoration: 6:30- 8 p.m., 2001 Broadway, Marble Falls (Historic Granite School).

-Marble Falls Middle School men’s choir performs at Colt Elementary, 2200 Manzano Mile, Marble Falls, at 1 p.m. The public is welcome.

-Marble Falls Elementary students perform a play for veterans at 1:30 p.m. Parents are welcome.

-“HeroSketch” artist appearance at Chique, Unique & Antique, 701 U.S. 281, suite H, Marble Falls, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Self-taught artist Cheryl Roberts of Kingsland will be showing her military prints.

-The Kiwanis Club of Marble Falls will be having a flag ceremony at its regular meeting, at River City Grille, 1 p.m. Kiwanis members will also be around town placing American flags at almost 150 locations.

-Students and staff at R.J. Richey Elementary School, will be hosting a tribute at 10 a.m. at Bulldog Stadium, 1401 N. Main St. Burnet. john Arthur martinez will sing patriotic songs, the Burnet High School Band will perform and the Confederate Air Force will fly over the stadium. Veterans get a complimentary “All American Lunch.”