Friday, Sept 11 will be a day of honor and remembrance in Habersham County. Two special events will be held in honor of present-day public servants and in remembrance of emergency personnel who lost their lives in the Twin Towers atttack in 2001. The public is invited to attend these events.
At 11:00 a.m. Friday, at the Habersham Cemetery on Habersham Mills Road there will be a flagpole dedication ceremony. A joint effort of the WoodmenLife Chapter 143 and the Trustees of the Habersham Cemetery Association, the dedication includes an invocation by Air Force Veteran, the Reverend Michael Cochran, and remarks by Woodmen of the World’s WoodmenLife representatives. The Celebration Quartet of Bethlehem Baptist Church will sing and there will participation by the Habersham Central Junior ROTC, the Grant Reeves VFW Post #7720 of Cornelia and the Rabun County Disabled American Veterans Chapter 15. The public is invited to join the ceremony held in honor and remembrance of public servants.
At 5:00 at the Clarkesville Gazebo, community members and members of organizations of all kinds – non-profit and national service, community and faith-based, educational and business – will join with local First Responders in a ceremony that will honor public servants of the past and present. Clarkesville Fire Chief Jerry Palmer invites community members as well as First Responders to gather at the gazebo “on September 11th to remember those who sacrificed all for their community” and for recognition and honoring of Habersham’s First Responders. After the ceremony of honor and remembrance at the gazebo, a reception will be held at Clarkesville City Hall from 6:00-7:00 p.m., to which the community and local First Responders are invited.
