MONDAY 10 A.M. AT PLATTE CITY CEMETERY
The annual Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the Platte City Cemetery on Monday, May 27. Ceremony begins at 10 a.m.
Groups involved include the City of Platte City, the Platte City Lions Club, VFW Post 4055, Daughters of the American Revolution and Boy Scout Troop 1351.
According to the city’s newsletter, the Lions Club will be serving coffee, doughnuts and juice from 9:30-11 a.m. at the Platte City Community Building (formerly known as the Lions Club building) at 305 North Street, across from the cemetery. The cemetery is located in the 100 block of N. Fourth Street, about four blocks north of Main Street.
Featured speaker for the event will be Daniel Anderson. Anderson is an experienced leader serving in government, the healthcare industry, as a first responder, and a retired citizen soldier. He is skilled in disaster and crisis management, security and law enforcement, and program management. He has a dual master’s degree in emergency and disaster management and Homeland Security from American Military University.
Anderson is a Platte County native, growing up in Camden Point. He started his emergency response career in the Camden Point Fire Protection District in 2003 as a volunteer firefighter.
Anderson joined the Missouri Army National Guard as a combat engineer in 2003. He was deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005 to 2006 in support of route clearance operations; finding 27 improvised explosive devices, seven which detonated on him and vehicles. Anderson was deployed in support of the Kosovo Force (KFOR), a NATO-led international peacekeeping force in Kosovo from 2008 to 2009 as a liaison monitoring team member.
Anderson previously worked for AdventHealth as a security manager, and emergency management program manager; in Merriam, Kan.
Anderson was elected as the Kansas Co-Chair for the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) Regional Homeland Security Coordinating Council’s Hospital Committee in 2015 to 2017 representing the Kansas City-Kansas Metro hospitals.
Anderson previously served as the emergency management operations manager for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County / Kansas City, Kan. Where he worked on many programs and systems for the readiness of the emergency management department to prepare, respond, and recovery during emergencies of the county and the Kansas City metro.
He currently serves with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as the emergency manager for the Eastern Kansas Healthcare System. He leads the readiness of the emergency management program for the healthcare system.