Spectators

at Peachtree City's Memorial Day celebration Monday morning will be served

refreshments this year thanks to the generosity of local businesses.

Coffee, orange

juice, donuts, bagels and cream cheese will be available on a first-come,

first-served basis while they last, according to organizers.

The ceremony

is slated to being at 7:45 a.m. at the VFW Memorial at City Hall Plaza.

It will be preceded by a golf cart procession around Lake Peachtree that

begins at The Gathering Place at 7:30. Citizens are encouraged to participate

in the procession by decorating their golf carts in a patriotic motif.

The ceremony

will include music by the Air National Guard Band of the South, a military

band that plays concerts worldwide. There will also be honors to the flag,

the reading of the winner in the student essay contest and the unveiling

of the "special surprise" that was created with memorabilia

from local veterans.

The keynote

speaker will be Navy Chaplain George W. Pucciarelli, who was an eyewitness

to the aftermath of the 1983 terrorist attack on the U.S. military in

Beirut, Lebanon that killed 241 servicemen.

The band will

also hold a concert after the ceremony beginning at 9 a.m.

This is the

first year that citizens in attendance will be offered refreshments.

The refreshments

were made possible by donations of food or cash from several local businesses,

including Dunkin' Donuts, Atlanta Bread Company, Valentino's, Continuous

Forms and Checks, Arnie's Fine Wines, Radio Shack, Joseph A. Banks, Pathways

Communities, Steinmart, Braelinn Krogers and the Pro Golf Shop.

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