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Veteran Recognition Ceremony
Veteran Recognition Ceremony Speaker
Announced
June
18, 2013 -
Southport, NC -
The North Carolina
4th of July Festival announces Mr. Jeff
Newton keynote speaker for the annual Veteran
Recognition Ceremony on July 2, 2013.
Mr. Newton is a producer for 60 Minutes and has been
working at CBS News for the past nine years. He has been
covering war for newspapers, wire services and
television for 19 years. His first war was in Bosnia in
1991 at age 24. Since then, he has traveled to 71
countries covering some of the top news events in the
world, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Kosovo. In 2006, his
work with Correspondent Lara Logan in Ramadi, Iraq, was
awarded a national Emmy Award, the David Kaplan Award
for overseas war reporting by the Overseas Press Club of
America and an Edward R Murrow Award from Radio and
Television News Director Association. The Louisville,
KY, native won the prestigious Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia
University Award for excellence in broadcast and digital
news in 2011. Newton won the DuPont Award as producer of
“A Relentless Enemy,” the September 2010 segment about a
U.S. military outpost on the remote border between
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Veteran Recognition Ceremony is a mainstay of the
July 4th Festival. During the many celebrations, it
allows the public to stop and remember those who serve
for our country, protecting our freedoms. The public is
invited. We encourage all Veterans in the area to
attend. This year’s event is sponsored by
Carillon Assisted
Living. Dinner will be provided. The ceremony
begins at 6 p.m. on July 2nd and will be held at the
Southport Community Building.
For over 200 years the city of
Southport, N.C.
has celebrated the nation’s independence. Annually, over
50,000 people visit during the festival. With events
ranging from arts & crafts in the park, vendor booths,
street dances, gallery walks and of course a parade, the
area is known as the official celebration location for
the state of North Carolina.
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