Pearl Harbor Survivors Chapter 23 North, Lake and Mendocino Counties members, sweethearts and friends at a luncheon on Monday, August 15, 2011, in Clearlake Oaks, Calif. Photo by Elizabeth Larson.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – Community members will pause to mark the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack this week.

Pearl Harbor Survivors Chapter 23 North, Lake and Mendocino Counties will host the ceremony on Wednesday, Dec. 7.

The ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. at the Pearl Harbor Memorial Mast in Library Park on Park Street in Lakeport.

It will then move across the street to the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St., from 9:15 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Steve Davis, the retired commander of the California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake office, will be the guest speaker.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor – which occurred on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941 – killed more than 2,400 people, most of them members of the US military but also some civilians at the base in Hawaii.

A special invitation is extended to Pearl Harbor survivors and the public to attend.

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