Nov. 7: Veterans Day Ceremony and Welcome Home Fair at CLC
The annual Veterans Day Ceremony will be held at noon on Friday, Nov. 7 in Room C005 (C Wing Auditorium) on the Grayslake campus, 19351 W. Washington Street. New this year is a Veteran and Military Welcome Home Benefit Fair from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., also cosponsored by the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center.
The ceremony's keynote speaker will be Debra Lewis, MAHRD, Event Coordinator, Recruit Training Command Great Lakes; retired Hospital Corpsman First Class (E6). Also participating in the ceremony will be a U.S. Navy Chaplain, U.S. Navy Color Guard and buglers, Joel Chmara, speech professor (poetry reading) and Julio Sandoval, CLC veteran student (speaker). An open microphone portion of the program will allow veterans in the audience to share about their military experience.
The Veteran and Military Welcome Home Benefit Fair will be held in the Lower Level C Wing Lobby to provide helpful information and resources. Participants can visit with representatives from:
Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (providing service and benefit entitlements to veterans and military service members, including VA registration and enrollment)
Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs
Lake County Veteran Assistance Commission
Health Net-Tricare
Lake and McHenry Counties' Veterans and Family Services
Evanston Veteran Center Mobile Clinic
The ceremony, which is open to the public, is being sponsored by the CLC Student Activities Program Board and Title V grant. The ceremony honors all veterans, and particularly CLC faculty, staff and students who are veterans of the armed forces. For more information, contact Dorsey Thomas, CLC veterans retention specialist, at (847) 543-2338 or dthomas2