Dirigo Elementary School students Abrahm and Delaney Thurston pose Thursday with their great-great-grandfather, Marlin Thurston, a World War II Army veteran, at a Veterans Day celebration at the school. About 60 River Valley area veterans were served breakfast before being honored at an assembly hosted by the students and staff.
Culinary arts students and instructors from Region 9 School of Applied Technology in Mexico serve breakfast Thursday to River Valley area veterans at Dirigo Elementary School in Peru. About 60 veterans, their families and friends attended an assembly afterward hosted by students and staff of the school.
About 60 veterans attend an assembly Thursday in a Veterans Day ceremony at Dirigo Elementary School in Peru. The veterans received cards and hugs thanking them for their service.
Dirigo Elementary School Principal Charlie Swan, standing at left, announces Thursday that students raised $2,803 for Operation Reboot Outdoors in Turner. Standing with him holding cards with the amounts they raised for the veterans organization are, from left, Clayton Swan, Easton Palmer, Piper LaPointe, Hunter Flagg and Emma Mawhinney. The school hosted about 60 River Valley area veterans for breakfast and an assembly to thank them for their service.
World War II veteran Cleon Fletcher, 96, poses Thursday with family members at a Veterans Day assembly at Dirigo Elementary School in Peru. With him, from left, are his great-granddaughter Devon Nelson, his wife, Emily Fletcher, and his granddaughter Tricia Fletcher.
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