{"id":644,"date":"2026-04-22T21:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/?p=644"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:03:18","slug":"htvrc-america-250th-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/2026\/04\/22\/htvrc-america-250th-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"HTVRC America 250th Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Hampden Township Veterans Recognition Committee<\/a> (HTVRC) hosted The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) at the Hampden Township Veterans Park on Saturday, April 11th, 2026. This ceremony welcomed community members to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Harris Ferry and Washingtonburg chapters provided a color guard, with compatriots Jacob Lemon, Dale Leppard, Steve Troutman, Gary Coburn, Raymond Scarazzo, Scott Siguenza, Dale Beaver, Jeff Patton, Dennis Dyckman, and Jeremy Winn, in attendance. A short history lesson of the events of 1776 was presented by Gary Coburn and Vice Admiral Keith Lippert (USN RET). Following this, DAR and SAR representatives, including our own Dale Leppard, provided information about upcoming programs and events that will take place to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hampden Township Veterans Recognition Committee (HTVRC) hosted The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) at the Hampden Township Veterans Park on Saturday, April 11th, 2026. This ceremony welcomed community members to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States. Harris Ferry and Washingtonburg chapters provided a … Continue reading HTVRC America 250th Celebration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[64,66,128,114,71],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-events","tag-america-250th","tag-daughters-of-the-american-revolution","tag-hampden-township","tag-harris-ferry-chapter","tag-washingtonburg-chapter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonburgsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}