Area schools will honor Veterans Day with special activities this week.
Scurry Community Services will honor veterans on Friday during the annual Thanksgiving lunch.
Snyder Primary School will make a special announcement Friday morning to honor all veterans and active military.
Seventy students have invited a veteran to attend a catered lunch. Principal Canita Rhodes said that is twice as many as when the school began hosting the luncheons four years ago.
Snyder Intermediate School will have a patriotic musical program at 7 p.m. today in the school auditorium. They invite all veterans and active military to attend the program.
At 8:30 a.m. Friday, veterans are invited to Snyder Intermediate School for coffee and donuts and to tour the school to see stories the students have written about a veteran they know or have studied.
Students at Snyder Junior High School will display artwork honoring veterans in the school’s trophy case at 1 p.m. Friday. The community is invited to view the artwork.
Snyder High School will hold a Veterans Day assembly at 7:45 a.m. Friday in Worsham Auditorium. The public is invited to attend and veterans will be honored. Charlotte Clifton will speak about Snyder High School graduate Michael Murphrey, who was killed in action while serving in Afghanistan.
Brendon Jasso and Talee Jones will sing the national anthem and the Snyder High School choir will sing the military service branch songs.
Ira ISD will host a musical Veterans Day program. Students in kindergarten through seventh grade will perform Let’s Sing America at 9:30 a.m. Friday in the Ira ISD cafetorium. Veterans and their spouses are invited to attend a luncheon in the school library immediately after the program.
Hermleigh ISD will honor veterans at noon Friday during lunch. Veterans wishing to have lunch at the school or have their name added to the recognition list are asked to contact the school at 863-2451. Veterans will also be invited to speak during lunch.
Snyder Christian School students in third through sixth grade will attend the Western Texas College Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday by the flagpoles. Pre-kindergarten through second grade students at the school will make poppies and place them on the veterans’ crosses on the Scuury County Courthouse lawn.
Western Texas College will host its eighth annual Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. Tumbleweed Smith, producer of The Sound of Texas, will be the keynote speaker.
Smith served three years in the U.S. Army security agency. As an interviewer, Smith has assembled one of the largest private collections of oral history in the United States.
A flyover by the High Sky Wing Commemorative Air Force based in Midland is scheduled, weather permitting.
Following the ceremony, veterans, their families and the public are invited to a reception hosted by the college at the Scurry County Museum.
American Legion Post No. 181 will also host Veterans Day events Friday. Breakfast will be served from 6:30-8:30 a.m. and a flag raising ceremony is scheduled for 9 a.m. A flag retirement ceremony will be held at 5:30 p.m. and a meal will be served at 6:30 p.m.
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