Last Updated on June 16, 2023 by Cass County Communication Network
Monday, June 19, 2023 is a federal holiday. We’ve compiled the information below from a variety of sources.
According to the Pew Research Center:
“Juneteenth is a combination of the words June and nineteenth. It commemorates the day more than two months after the end of the Civil War – and more than two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation – when enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom.”
Read the proclamation from the White House on the Juneteenth Day of Observance here.
Learn more at https://www.juneteenth.com.
USPS will be closed on Monday, June 19, 2023 in observance of Juneteenth National Independence Day. There will be no mail delivery and post offices will be closed.
Federal government offices and many banks will be closed Monday, June 19 in observance of Juneteenth.
All Area Five offices will be closed Monday, June 19, 2023 in honor of Juneteenth. They will reopen Tuesday, June 20 at 8 a.m.
The Downtown Senior Center in Logansport will NOT be serving lunch on Monday, June 19, 2023 because Area Five is closed that day. The Downtown Senior Center will be open and all of our other regular programs will take place as usual that day — but no lunch .