Honoring veterans this Memorial Day weekend in the Inland Northwest

This Memorial Day weekend, there are plenty of opportunities to remember those who died in service to our country – everything from pancake breakfasts and car shows to live music and a flag presentation ceremony.

Plus, a film from Metaline Falls-based filmmakers returns to the Inland Northwest and a clambake on Lake Coeur d’Alene.

Memorial Day Weekend: On Sunday and Monday, Hennessey Funeral Home and Crematory will offer coffee, cookies, popcorn, punch and hot dogs from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

The weekend will also feature Elvis Presley tribute artist Ben Klein and the Zonkey Jazz Band. Brassworks Band will perform Sunday and Taylor Belote will perform Monday.

Sunday and Monday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Hennessey Funeral Home and Crematory, 2203 N. Division St.

All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast: Green Bluff Grange Hall, 9809 E. Greenbluff Road, Colbert, will host an all-you-can-eat breakfast featuring pancakes, sausage, eggs and beverages on Sunday.

8-11 a.m. $5/adults; $3.50/ages 6-12; free/ages 5 and younger.

Salute to Service Benefit Concert and Car Show: Enjoy music from Dragonfly, plus a beer garden, Black Fire Kettle Corn and free hot dogs, in a benefit for Second Harvest Food Bank.

There will also be cars from Gents Auto Club. Bring your own blanket or chairs for the concert.

4:30 p.m. Sunday. Greenwood Memorial Terrace Cemetery, 211 N. Government Way. $5 suggested donation. Canned food and non-perishable items also accepted.

Memorial Day Heroes’ Breakfast: Veterans and service personnel can enjoy pancakes, sausage, juice and coffee for free. Tickets for others are $3 (cash or check only). All proceeds benefit Second Harvest Food Bank. Non-perishable donations also accepted.

Vitalant will have a blood drive bus at the breakfast from 9 a.m.-noon for those looking to donate blood.

At 1 p.m., Colonel Derek M. Salmi, commander 92nd Air Refueling Wing, Fairchild Air Force Base, will deliver the annual presentation.

8:30 a.m. Monday. Heritage Funeral Home and Crematory, 508 N. Government Way.

Memorial Day Service: The Greater Spokane Elks 228 will host a Memorial Day service. 10 a.m. Monday. Spokane Memorial Gardens, 5909 S. Cheney-Spokane Road.

American Legion Post 241 Flag Disposal Presentation

The organization will retire flags on Monday at Pines Cemetery, 1402 S. Pines Road, Spokane Valley. 11 a.m.

Memorial Day Service: The Melvin M. Smith Detachment of the Marine Corps League invites members, their families and supporters to its Memorial Day ceremony at Fairmount Memorial Park on Monday.

During the ceremony, veterans who have passed since the 2018 ceremony will be remembered.

Guest speaker Captain Russ Ryder, inspector-instructor, Papa Battery, 5th Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, will talk about the importance of Memorial Day.

The Chase Middle School Band and Angus Scott Pipe Band will perform during the ceremony.

The ceremony will be held at the Iwo Jima Memorial at Fairmount, 5200 W. Wellesley Ave. at 11 a.m. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be moved to the Sunset Chapel.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a flower or U.S. flag. Flowers can be left on the grave of a fallen soldier.

American Heroes Weekend: From Saturday through Monday, all military personnel, veterans, police officers and firefighters, with ID, receive free admission to Silverwood Theme Park, 27843 N. Highway 95, Athol.

Their family members will receive a special discounted rate when purchasing tickets at the front gate.

‘Farmer of the Year’ Screening: Metaline Falls-based filmmakers Kathy Swanson and Vince O’Connell call their film “Farmer of the Year” a “coming of aging adventure.”

After selling his farm, widowed 83-year-old veteran Hap Anderson (Barry Corbin, “Northern Exposure”) is looking for some excitement.

And at first, a trip to a 65th World War II reunion seems to be just what he’s after.

But he can’t show up to the reunion without a date, “like some kind of loser,” so he, joined by his unemployed granddaughter Ashley (Mackinlee Waddell), decides to drive from Minnesota to California in his 1973 Winnebago, planning to pick up a former flame on the way.

Despite their impending deadline to make the reunion, Anderson and, reluctantly, Ashley throw their agenda to the wayside to stop at a handful of oddball tourist attractions, like the Corn Palace in South Dakota.

During the trip, and with the help of a few eccentric characters, Anderson realizes he doesn’t have to be defined by his age.

The film, which had its Pacific Northwest premiere in September at the Cutter Theatre in Metaline Falls, will be screened at 2 p.m. Monday at the NuVu Showhouse, 209 E. Fifth Ave., Metaline Falls.

Tickets are $9/adults and $6.50/children.

Memorial Day Weekend Clambake on the Lake: The Coeur d’Alene Resort chefs have prepared an all-you-can-eat buffet including Puget Sound Manila clams, Kumamoto oysters, jumbo prawns, wild Alaskan crab and Northwest alder-planked salmon.

A no-host cocktail hour begins at 5 p.m. and dinner begins at 6 p.m. at the Hagadone Event Center, 900 S. Floating Green Drive, Coeur d’Alene. There will also be live music and games.

Tickets are $79 for adults, $30 for ages 10-14 and free for children 9 and younger. Tickets are available through https://bit.ly/2BGhXgz or by phone at (855) 379-5478.