THOUSAND OAKS, CA - California Lutheran University is hosting a Veterans Day Celebration featuring music and a barbecue dinner from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8.

Admission to the tailgate party is free for veterans and military members and up to three guests for each with proof of service. They can bring additional guests for $10 each.

Country rock cover band Highway Starr will perform at the celebration, which will be held on the presidential patio outside the Pederson Administration Building on the Thousand Oaks campus. Gift baskets will be raffled off to support Cal Lutheran’s Military Veterans Club.

After dinner, guests can watch the Kingsmen football team play Occidental College at 7 p.m. in William Rolland Stadium. Admission is free to all.

Before the tailgate party, visitors can watch a short documentary about the healing effect that therapeutic horseback riding had on a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. The award-winning “Riding My Way Back” will be shown at 4:30 p.m. in Alumni Hall 128. Staff members from Newbury Park-based Ride On Therapeutic Horsemanship will answer questions after the film.

Cal Lutheran is ranked third among regional universities in the West in the Best Colleges for Veterans list. The university works with the government to cover all tuition and fees for an unlimited number of qualified undergraduate and graduate students through the Post-9/11 GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon Program. Cal Lutheran also belongs to the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges Consortium and has a veterans coordinator who organizes events and helps with enrollment, financial aid and academic issues.

Pederson Administration Building is located at the southwest corner of Olsen Road and Mountclef Boulevard. William Rolland Stadium is on the north side of Olsen Road between Campus Drive and Mountclef. Alumni Hall is west of Mountclef between Olsen and Memorial Parkway.

To RSVP for the celebration, go to CalLutheran.edu/veterans. For more information, contact Veterans Coordinator Jenn Zimmerman at 493-3648 or veterans@callutheran.edu.