LAYTON — Wreaths Across America’s Mobile Education Exhibit is stopping in Northern Utah for the first time Sunday at Layton Commons Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Serving as a mobile museum, the exhibit educates visitors through interactive displays, short films and shared stories on the service and sacrifice of American service members.

Sharing similar objectives in promoting historic preservation, education and patriotism, the Daughters of the American Revolution is an official sponsor of Wreaths Across America.

Golden Spike and Sego Lily DAR chapters will be representing the women’s service organization at Sunday’s event, sharing additional ways to show appreciation for veterans and active-duty military.

Those attending the event will have the opportunity to order wreaths to be placed on graves of friends or loved ones on Dec. 17 for Wreaths Across America Day.

Wreaths cost $15 each with $10 of each sale helping pay for supplies used to make them and the remaining $5 going into a general fund to serve veterans in the community.

While the DAR Golden Spike Chapter only lays wreaths at Washington Heights Memorial Park, the Ogden City Cemetery and Evergreen Memorial Park as part of its Wreaths Across America sponsorship, wreaths can be purchased and placed at DAR-sponsored cemeteries and veteran memorial parks nationwide.

Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit organization continuing and expanding the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, which began in 1992 by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester.

Golden Spike Chapter Regent Vickie Mattson said her chapter, serving Ogden and multiple surrounding counties, has been participating in Wreaths Across America since 2007, when the organization came to Utah.

Mattson, who is not a veteran herself but a member of a veteran family, said wreath-laying ceremonies are emotional but important.

“It shows living veterans that they will never be forgotten,” she said.

Wreaths Across America Day events are nonpolitical, nonreligious, free and open to all.

For more information on Wreaths Across America, to donate or to volunteer, visit www.WreathsAcrossAmerica.org.

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