A special Flag Day ceremony will be held at
10 a.m. Thursday, June 14 at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Information Center,
I-49 exit 23, just north of Opelousas. The ceremony will serve as a dedication
of a new flag pole at the Visitor Center.
Celebrated every June 14, Flag Day
commemorates the adoption of the United States flag. The Second Continental
Congress passed the resolution on June 14, 1777. President Woodrow Wilson
proclaimed Flag Day in 1916. Congress officially established Flag Day in
August, 1949.
Members of Woodmen of the World and the
American Legion will be present for the Visitor Center flag-raising. The public
is invited and veterans are urged to attend.
Tours of the Visitor Center, which
celebrated its first anniversary on May 23, will be available after the
ceremony. Constructed with reclaimed and recycled material, the center is the
only green visitor center in Louisiana and one of the few in the United States.
For more information, call (337) 948-8004
or email info@cajuntravel.com.
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