Grass Valley and Nevada County will celebrate our men and women on active duty

Saturday May 21, 2022

Be There! Volunteer to help!

Show your support of our men and women currently in uniform and serving!!!!!

Downtown Grass Valley will host troops from every branch and invite each to display their current equipment in day long displays and activities. Scheduled to appear are canine units, robots, rescue craft, sit in aircraft cockpits and interactive 3D training devices,

Recruiters will have the current opportunities available for those with questions.

Chef Abas will be cooking hamburgers and hot dogs at the Elks Club for the event.

Post 130’s Auxiliary will be providing some great cookie desserts.

We need volunteers to do some easy stuff like guiding and directing the Scouts, to clean off tables, refill & restock and answer questions about our community.

Hosted by the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce, the City of Grass Valley, and the County of Nevada

The celebration will include flyovers and music from the United States Airforce Band of the Golden West. Also expected to participate will be representatives from military units in Sacramento, Alameda, and San Francisco, USCG station Lake Tahoe, with Opening and Closing Colors provided by the 9th Force Support Squadron Honor Guard from Beale AFB. The five-hour event will begin at 11:00 am with Opening Colors, followed by a program that will include three separate flyovers! FAA and Homeland Security has given clearance for a never-before-done mini airshow over our rural town. Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento will roar over town in a C-27J Spartan medium-range surveillance plane; a T-38 will fly up from Beale AFB; the Army National Guard will bring a UH-60 Black Hawk rescue helicopter.