June 17, 2022 11:00 a.m. 

Roseburg VA outpatient clinics will be closed on Monday in honor of Juneteenth.

A release said June 19,1865 is when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were finally notified they were free from bondage, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

While Juneteenth has been celebrated in various parts of the country since 1865, it became a federal holiday last year when President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.

Since the holiday falls on a Sunday this year, it will be observed on Monday, per federal guidance.