Tribe hosting annual Memorial Day event on May 26

The Veterans Special Event Board will be sponsoring the annual Memorial Day ceremony held at the West Valley Veterans Memorial on the Tribal campus beginning at 1 p.m. Monday, May 26.

A community meal will be served in the Tribal Community Center beginning at noon.

Veterans Special Event Board Chairman Steve Bobb Sr., a Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran, will be the master of ceremonies and provide the invocation.

Confirmed speakers will include Tribal Council Chairman Reyn Leno, also a Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran, Oregon Veterans' Services Administrator Eric Belt and Gunny Brandon, also a Marine Corps veteran.

New names being placed on the Veterans Memorial will be read aloud and a medley of taps and "Amazing Grace" will be played by Jan Looking Wolf Reibach, head of the Tribe's Land & Culture Department and a multiple winner of Native American Music Awards as a flutist.

The Grand Ronde Honor Guard also will attend to post and retire the colors.