Today is Veterans Day, first proclaimed as Armistice Day in 1919 by President Woodrow Wilson to commemorate the day hostilities of World War I ceased on Nov. 11, 1918. It was renamed Veterans Day in 1954. As it is a legal holiday, all federal, state, county and city offices are closed, as well as the Sequim School District.

Also closed are Clallam County PUD, the Sequim Library and the Shipley Center. Clallam Transit, however, will have regular bus, dial-a-ride and paratransit services on Veterans Day. Administrative offices will be closed.

•  A regional ceremony is planned at the Port Angeles Coast Guard station on Ediz Hook at 10:30 a.m. today, Nov. 11. The public is welcome to attend and can enter the facility from the front gate at 1 Ediz Hook starting at 9:15 a.m. All guests are required to present valid government-issued identification. No visitors can carry weapons on their persons or in their vehicles. No walk-ons will be allowed on base. The guest speaker will be Tom Beard, who retired as a lieutenant commander from the Coast Guard, where he worked as a rescue pilot.

• The Clallam County Veterans Association is hosting a coffee and cookie social immediately following the Veterans Day ceremony at the Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles at noon today.

• At 11 a.m. today, Nov. 11, the Navy Seabees will have a Veterans Day Remembrance Program honoring CM3 Marvin G. Shields Medal of Honor Recipient and Veterans of War at Gardiner Community Cemetery in Gardiner. The public is invited to attend. There is limited parking at the cemetery. There will be a bus providing transportation to the cemetery from the Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road, starting at 10:30 a.m.

• In appreciation of area veterans, Applebee’s, 130 River Road, Sequim, is offering a free meal today, Nov. 11, to all active and retired veterans from a set menu. Hours will be from 10 a.m. until midnight.

• Elizabeth Ann Scarborough — a nurse, novelist and veteran of the Vietnam War — reads from her celebrated work, “The Healer’s War” on Thursday Nov. 12, from 12:35-1:25 p.m. at Peninsula College’s Little Theater during a Studium Generale presentation. The event is free and open to the public.

In honor of Veterans Day, Scarborough shares some of her work as a writer and a former army nurse, and will open the discussion to a question-and-answer period in which others can share their experiences. Scarborough, a Port Townsend resident, has authored more than a dozen novels. For more information, e-mail Kate Reavy at kreavy@pencol.edu.