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Special activities planned for Veterans Day

RANDOLPH — The community is invited to pay tribute to veterans with annual Veterans Day activities.

Veterans Day will be celebrated Thursday, Nov. 11, and the community will mark the day with a program at 10 a.m., in the Performing Arts Gym at Randolph High School. Elementary and high school students will participate and the public is invited to attend.

The program will feature musical selections by the junior high and high school band and choir.

Ariel Fye will read her winning Voice of Democracy essay.

The guest speaker will be Art Teacher Ryan Surber.

Surber enlisted in the Iowa National Guard in 1999 just before graduating high school from Laurel-Concord. After basic training, he was assigned to the 185th Air Refueling Wing based in Sioux City. He spent his first two years as a weapons system mechanic on F-16 fighter jets and then seven years as an aerial refueling technician. He was deployed to Turkey and flew several refueling missions over hostile territory as part of his 10-year military career.

He served alongside his father, Don Surber, and his brother, Bennie Surber, in the 185th.

He has several other family members who have or are currently serving in the military  including four cousins, an uncle, stepbrother, and sister-in-law.

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