Spring 25 OP Newsletter

VETERANS INFORMATION Memorial Day Ceremony

The community is invited to come together to honor our veterans this Memorial Day, Monday, May 26 at Ara Pacé ~ Place of Peace (14700 S. Ravinia Ave.). The event, beginning at 11 a.m., will feature a welcome address from Veterans Program Coordinator Dan Marsan, Memorial Day reflections from guest speakers and reading of the newly-engraved names. The ceremony will close out with a 21-gun salute and the playing of taps. Do you want to Honor and Remember a Veteran? Each Memorial and Veterans Day the Village’s Veterans Commission adds the names of veterans to the Village’s Memorial, Ara Pacé ~ Place of Peace Memorial at the Village Center. You can find this application on the next page. The form is also available in person at Village Hall or on the Village’s website at: orlandpark.org/veterans.

Veterans Center

On Veterans Day in 2024, the Village of Orland Park held a ribbon cutting for the new Veterans Center. The new Veterans Center is located at 14671 West Avenue and will house meetings for the American Legion Post 111, VFW Orland-Palos Post 2604, Veterans Voices and Disabled American Veterans (DAV), in addition to the Orland Park Veterans Commission.

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