On Monday, many area businesses and offices will be closed in observance of Memorial Day. Pastor Dave Watson of the First Assembly of God will be singing at Washington’s Memorial Day service Monday. Watson says that singing the National Anthem and The Battle Hymn of the Republic on Memorial Day is very powerful and moving.
Monday at 10 a.m. a Memorial Day service is being held by American Legion Post 29 at Washington High School with guest speaker Dr. Noli Mendoza, a staff physician at the VA Medical Center in Iowa City and served in the Army, the Army Reserves and Iowa Army National Guard. Doors will open at 9:30 a.m.