DAVIS COUNTY — Memorial Day’s observance on Monday and this weekend means not only that local, state and federal offices will be closed, along with schools – but also includes many related activities.

On Sunday, Lakeview Memorial Cemetery in Bountiful will hold its usual evening observance. A Scottish bagpipe band will perform at 7:30 p.m., with hot dogs and cookies served before hand. Bountiful Police will also perform a flag ceremony prior to the performance, a Cemetery spokesperson said.

On Monday, Woods Cross will continue its longtime Memorial Day program tradition at Woods Cross Park, east of city hall at 1500 S. 800 W.

Activities will start off with a 5K run at 7 a.m., with registration from 6 a.m. to 6:45 a.m.

An 8 a.m. program will follow, featuring speeches by State Rep. Dan Liljenquist and Derek Miller, from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. Breakfast will also be served at $1 per person.

At the Bountiful City Cemetery, there will be no formal program this year. However, people are welcome, officials indicate.

On Friday afternoon, May 22, members of the Bountiful American Legion Post 79 will continue a long tradition of placing over 1,200 crosses. Those will be placed in honor of deceased Veterans.

Post Commander Ron Mortensen notes that each cross has the name of a veteran buried there, arranged in alphabetical order so family members can easily locate crosses bearing the names of their loved ones.

Post members scour obituaries and cemetery personnel track burials of veterans to make sure no veteran goes unrecognized, he said.

“This is the least we can do to recognize the sacrifice made by the veterans buried in this cemetery,” Mortensen said. “We encourage everyone to visit the cemetery and silently thank all who gave so much to preserve the freedoms we enjoy today.”

The Hill Aerospace Museum will commemorate the day with the theme, “A Day of Remembrance, A Day to Remember.”

From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., museum exhibits spanning almost 100 years of aviation history and heroism will be open and free to the public.

A 30-minute program at 9:30 a.m. will be held to induct the 23rd member of the Utah Aviation Hall of Fame, Maj. Gen. William Creer, United States Air Force, deceased.

He was a World War II B-17 Bomb Group Leader and Vietnam War B-52 Division commander.

A Creer exhibit will be unveiled, family representative Bette Marx will receive the Utah Aviation Hall of Fame Medal, and former Rep. James V. Hansen, a Farmington resident, will speak.

At 11:30 a.m., the fifth annual Memorial Day program will be held in the Museum Chapel, hosted by the Pioneer Flight of the Order of Daedalians. Theme is, “Lest We Forget: Honoring the Brave and the Fallen.”

The program will include letters, poetry and words of inspiration from the first Americans to fight for freedom in World War I, the Lafayette Escadrille, and the rendering of honors, by name, to the 56 fallen warriors from Utah in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, for whom chapel bells will toll and taps will be sounded.

All programs and visit to the museum are free.

Antelope Island State Park will also present events for Memorial Day from Saturday, May 23-Monday, May 25.

The Fielding Garr Ranch will be the setting for the 4th annual Cowboy Legends Poetry and Music Festival. Cowboy poetry and music will be offered each day, noon to 5 p.m. A Dutch oven dinner show will be Saturday, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. For more information or to RSVP for the dinner show, call 801-649--5742 or email clayshelley@utah.gov.

The ranch will also be the setting for other events, Saturday, May 23 and Monday, May 25, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Those include a chance to learn how the people of Antelope Island lived. There will be a chance to learn how to make pioneer handkerchief dolls, pick up a needle and quilt, dip candles and learn pioneer games such as farm ball and race your family in a sack race. For more information, call 801-649-5742.

tbusselberg@davisclipper.com