The 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, will be celebrated Thursday at 2 p.m. at Lincoln Elementary School, 203 N. Lincoln St., Warsaw.
The public is invited to attend.
Students from the school have assembled a display honoring Lincoln, will recite the Gettysburg Address and review the life of this famous American.Ken Locke, president of the Thaddeus Kosciuszko SAR Chapter, will give a speech on the importance of this observance.
Students at Lincoln are seeing how many pennies they can collect to purchase books for their library and encourage anyone attending to bring some, too.
A grant from the SAR chapter will match the amount of the pennies collected.
A 200th birthday card will be available for all attendees to sign, which will be sent to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Ill. The party will close with birthday cake for everyone.
Lincoln Elementary School was built in 1959 and dedicated to honor "The Great Emancipator" during the sesquicentennial celebration. It is the only building in Kosciusko County that bears his name, it's located on Lincoln Street and is one block off of the old Lincoln Highway (Center Street). The school is going to apply to become a Lincoln Legacy School by participating in this event.
For more information, call 574-268-7697.
For more information on the Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration go to www.lincolnbicentennial.gov
