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Today MEMORIAL DAY • Ansonia: Parade starts at 2 p.m. at Wakelee Avenue and Franklin Street on May 28 and ends at the reviewing stand, City Hall. No parking on route 7 a.m.-4 p.m., route closed to traffic noon-4 p.m., affecting Wakelee Avenue, Franklin Street to Jackson Street, Jackson Street, Wakelee Avenue to Franklin Street, Maple Street, Franklin to Olson Drive, Main Street, Maple Street to West Main Street. Cars parked along route will be towed at owner’s expense. • Milford: Garden Club dedicates Blue Star Memorial honoring veterans next to new Founders Walk at noon May 28 by Fowler Memorial Building next to library, 57 New Haven Ave. Wreath-laying at 9:45 a.m. May 28 in front of City Hall. Parade at 2 p.m. May 28, assemble at 1 p.m. Daniel S. Wasson Field parking lot on West Main Street. Grand marshal and guest speaker is Michael Thomas, a Navy commander who saw combat in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. • New Haven: Wreathlaying ceremony at 1 p.m. at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park, Long Wharf Drive. Marine Aviation Reservist Staff Sgt. Derek Torrellas is speaker; retired Col. Kenneth Gertz is MC; Joanne Papapietro, soloist; retired Master Sgt. Clifford Potter offers “The Soldier’s Prayer.” At 3 p.m. May 28 at the World War Memorial Flagpole on the Green, Robert Reed is speaker; retired Master Sgt. Frank Alvarado, master of ceremonies; Ruth Rosa, soloist; and VFW New Haven Chaplain and Cpl. James Namnoum, offers a prayer. Free, family-friendly Memorial Day concert at 5 p.m. May 28 by Orchestra New England (orchestranewengland.org), John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, SCSU, 501 Crescent St., fax at 203-946-2998. Info: Col. Bob Fodero at sdfodero@yahoo.com, or mayor’s office at 203-946-8200.

• Orange: Ceremonies, parade May 28. Honorees are: grand marshal, Robert H. DeFeo, Air Force active 1956-59, reserve 195665, rank of captain. Chief of staff, Peter Shery, Army 1953-55, Korean War veteran. Honored veteran, Donald J. Jewell, posthumously, Coast Guard 1942-46 World War 11 veteran, past commander of American Legion Post 127. Speaker, Paul M. Tarbox. Parade organizer, Kevin Gilbert. Ceremonies at 10:30 a.m. at High Plains Community Center field. Step-off down Orange Center Road, with services at Orange Center Cemetery. Contact Karen Goldberg at Town Hall, 203-891-4738, Kevin Gilbert, 203-7952417, 203-795-4647, www. orange-ct.gov. Rain moves event to High Plains Community Center auditorium. HORSESHOE CRABS Milford: Sacred Heart University professor Jo-Marie Kasinak talk about horseshoe crabs research, walk to find, tag horseshoe crabs, 1 p.m. May 28, Connecticut Audubon Society Coastal Center, 1 Milford Point Road, CAS members $5; nonmembers $8. RSVP: 203-8787440, ext. 502. VESSEL CHECKS Milford: USCG Auxiliary 24-3 Flotilla free vessel safety checks, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. May 28, Village Marina, 40 Bridgeport Ave., Devon. STAMP SHOW

New Haven: New Haven Philatelic Society free stamp show, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. May 28, Annex Club, 554 Woodward Ave., 203-6276874. May 29 MEMORIAL DAY • Bethany: Lions Club parade is 10 a.m. May 29, rain or shine, bethanylionsparade@gmail.com, http:// www.bethanyctlions.com/, Lineup is at 9 a.m. from Bethany Airport, Route 63, south to Town Hall, Peck Road, ceremony follows. • Branford: Parade forms at Veterans Memorial Triangle at 8 a.m. May 29, rain or shine, with laying of wreaths at Stony Creek veterans’ monuments; flag raising, with Stony Creek Fife & Drum Corps, gun salute, taps. Proceeds to Stony Creek Cemetery for service. Transportation provided for any veterans; call Unk DaRos, 203-488-7029. Then to Veterans Memorial Triangle to disband. • East Haven: Veteran’s Council, with Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr., procession from American Legion Post 89 on Thompson Avenue to Green, 11:30 a.m. May 29, Club Corvette of CT provides vehicles for veterans, East Haven High School Band patriotic music at 11:30 a.m. at the gazebo on Green. Noon, remarks from dignitaries and recognition of Joseph Maturo Sr., 92, as “honored vet.” He served in the Navy as a pilot of a LCM troop carrier. Maturo spent 30 days on the Normany beach. Then a procession to war monuments, and to Post 89 for refreshments.