Weekend entertainment and Veterans Day activities kick off early Saturday with a walk and a parade and wrap up Tuesday with a memorial service.

If you go

Saturday

* Let’s Go Walkin’ in Downtown Vicksburg — 9 a.m., River Stage Plaza on Washington Street.

* Veterans Day parade — 10 a.m., along Washington Street.

* Bark in the Park — 10 a.m., Riverfront Park

* MUDJam — 11 a.m.-2 p.m., River Stage Plaza.

Tuesday

* Veterans Day memorial service — 11 a.m. , memorial at Municipal Rose Garden on Monroe Street

* Vicksburg National Military Park — free admission all day

Let’s Go Walkin’ in Downtown Vicksburg will kick off at 9 a.m. at River Stage Plaza. The larger community program is organized by BlueCross BlueShield of Mississippi. An hour later, Vicksburg’s annual Veterans Day parade will travel down Washington Street. The procession will line up near Washington and Belmont streets at 9 a.m. and roll through downtown Vicksburg beginning at 10.

At 11 a.m., the city-sponsored MUDJam concert series, or Musicians Unleashed Downtown, returns after a one-year hiatus. Local group Sam Brady and Friends will perform at River Stage Plaza until 2 p.m. Bookings for a December performance tied to holiday events downtown and biweekly concerts planned for next spring are still available, city communications director Barry Graham said.

Also, pet owners can have their pets vaccinated for rabies and have locator microchips implanted at Riverfront Park starting at 10 a.m. Vaccinations are $5, microchips are $25. Proceeds will go to Paws Rescue.

Vicksburg native and Deputy Chief of Staff, Germany Forward, Col. Charles A. Carson of the 412th Engineer Command, U.S. Army Reserve will be guest speaker at Tuesday’s memorial service at the municipal rose garden on Monroe Street.

The service begins at 11 a.m. , signifying the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Also, entrance fees will be waived Tuesday for visitors of Vicksburg National Military Park in observance of Veterans Day.

Carson is emergency operations planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District. He holds an architectural engineering degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and numerous military service awards, including the Bronze Star, Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Armed Forces Service Medal with silver hour glass and M Device, the NATO Medal and the GWOT Service Medal.

A reading of the poem “In Flanders Field,” penned in honor of servicemen and women who died during World War I, will be featured during the ceremony, as well as the presentation of the colors by Vicksburg High School Junior ROTC and of the wreaths by commanders of VFW posts Allein Post 3, Tyner-Ford Post 213, William T. Gifford Post 2572 and Clifford C. Curd Post 110734, Disabled American Veterans Post 22, Military Order of the Cootie, Elks Lodge 95, Fidelity Lodge 507 and the Moose Lodge.

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Contact Danny Barrett Jr. at dbarrett@vicksburgpost.com.