MEMORIAL DAY EVENTS

MAY 20

American Legion Post 927, 646 Fairgrounds Road, Gilbert. Opening bell at 11 a.m. Invocation by Auxiliary Chaplain, Joyce Castillo; Resolution 288 and POW/ MIA chair; Welcome by Post Commander Danny Insalata.

Speakers: State Rep. Jack Rader, State Rep. Rosemary Brown, Sen. Mario Scavello, Post Vice Commander Patrick Seiler, PA Veteran’s Affairs Rep Lisa Kane. Followed by roll call and tolling of the bell. Closing by Post Commander Danny Insalata. Benediction by Auxiliary President Eileen McGuire. Followed by closing bell.

Services move outdoors for the placing of the wreath and the raising of the flag, honor guard salutes and taps. Light luncheon follows.

MAY 22

Salute the Troops. The Allentown Band performs at 3 p.m. at the Bethlehem Rose Garden Park, Eighth Avenue and Union Boulevard, Bethlehem. Sponsored by the Bethlehem Star Rotary Club. Donations accepted and will benefit Victory House of the Lehigh Valley. Rain date: June 26.

MAY 28 Perkasie Memorial Day Parade and Service,

parade begins at 9 a.m. from the Shelly’s lot in the center of town and end at the Memorial Garden at Menlo Park. The Memorial Day service will begin at 10:15 a.m. in Menlo Park. The event will cancel in the event of rain.

Plumstead Township’s Board of Supervisors and its Veterans Committee will conduct its annual Memorial Day observance at 9 a.m. the township’s Veterans

Park, 5775 Easton Road, Plumsteadville. The observance will be led by the Plumstead Township Veterans Committee. During the flag ceremony, the Young Marines and the Doylestown Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol Cadets will first raise the flag and then lower it to half-staff. On Memorial Day, the flag is flown at half-staff until noon when it is then raised back up to full-staff. Following the flag ceremony, tribute will be made to Plumstead residents who made the supreme sacrifice. The program will conclude with the sounding of taps and the benediction.

The Emmaus Remembrance Garden’s 15th annual veteran’s brick installation will be held at 10 a.m. at the Emmaus Remembrance Garden, 150 E. Main St. The ceremony is hosted by the Emmaus Commemorative Gardens Foundation and 25 bricks will be installed in the Veteran’s Walk. The Veteran’s Walkway was created to honor those who served and who are now serving in our armed forces. Info: www. emmausremembers.org.

Artsquest annual Memorial Day Commemoration begins with Ed McKendry performing at 3 p.m. at SteelStacks. Hydraulic Lime performs at 5:30 p.m. and Rock Steady performs at 9 p.m.

MAY 29

Emmaus Honor Guard will conduct its annual salute to veterans at each of the borough’s cemeteries. A short prayer service, rifle salute and taps begins at 8 a.m. at Calvary Cemetery, followed by Old Moravian at Adrain Street, Moravian at Ridge Street, Northwood, Lutheran Reformed, and ending at Evangelical at Second and Ridge streets.

Macungie Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Post 9264 will visit the following cemeteries: St. Peter’s Union Church Cemetery, 10:15 a.m.; Macungie Fairview Cemetery, 11 a.m.; Solomon’s Church Cemetery, Macungie, 11:30 a.m.; Zion’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, Old Zionsville, noon; and Bethany United Methodist Cemetery, East Texas, 12:30 p.m.

Artsquest annual Memorial Day Commemoration continues with Sing for America performing at 3 p.m. at SteelStacks. The Acoustic Kitty Project performs at 5:30 p.m. and Roi and the Secret People perform at 9 p.m.

Williams Township Municipal Building, 655 Cider Press Road, service at 6 p.m. Barry Willever, a Vietnam veteran from Wilson, will deliver the address. The names of the fallen heroes will be read by Peter Thompson. Jess Murray, a senior township veteran, will lay a memorial wreath. Music by the Wilson Area High School Band.

MAY 30 Northampton VFW Post 4714

will conduct a memorial tribute at the graveside of fallen comrades at the following Northampton cemeteries as follows 8:30 a.m. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cemetery, 9 a.m. St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, 9:30 a.m. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery, and 10 a.m. Our Lady of Hungary Cemetery. The brief ceremony will consist of: national anthem, prayer, song, roll call, rifle salute, echo taps, “Amazing Grace” and “America the Beautiful.”

Emmaus Memorial Day Parade, 9 a.m. will depart from

the high school parking lot and proceed to the Memorial Triangle for services. Rain location, parade will be canceled and a short ceremony will be held at the Memorial Site by the honor guard to honor the fallen heroes.

The Brown & Lynch American Legion Post 9 will render military honors at 9 a.m. at the Grand Army of the Republic plot at Easton cemetery.

Collegeville-Trappe Memorial Day Parade, 10 a.m. begins at Augustus Lutheran Church on Seventh Avenue in Trappe, proceeds down Main Street to First Avenue at the Trappe Shopping Center, right on First Avenue to the entrance to Waterworks Park. Remembrance service and community day after the parade ends at Waterworks Park, 11:30 a.m. ceremonial flag raising, singing of “The Star Spangled Banner,” moon bounce, slide, obstacle course inflatables, face painters, live music and food vendors.

The Easton Memorial Day parade steps off at 10:30 a.m. at Sixth and Walnut streets. It will end at Riverside Park with closing ceremonies at 11:30 a.m.

Macungie Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Post 9264 will hold a flag raising and VFW Memorial Day ceremony at the Macungie Memorial Park, Veteran’s Memorial, 50 N. Poplar St., Macungie at 10:30 a.m. A Memorial Day service will be held at the “All Gave Some - Some Gave All” Memorial, 287 Lehigh St., Macungie at 11 a.m.

The Northampton Joint Veterans, consisting of the American Legion Post 353, Catholic War Veterans Post 454 and VFW Post 4714 will conduct a memorial tribute for fallen comrades at 11 a.m. at the Northampton Memorial Plaza, 14th and Dewey Avenue, Northampton.

The West Bangor Memorial Association will hold Memorial Day services at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Site, Second Street, West Bangor. The speaker will be Navy veteran Jeffrey Berger, a Pen Argyl resident. Rain location: St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church Social Hall, Verona Avenue, West Bangor.

East Bangor will hold services at 1 p.m. at the East Bangor Cemetery, Park Road. Speaker will be Russell Stout, historian. There will be a roll call of those veterans who have died in the past year and are now buried in the East Bangor Cemetery. Music by the Blues Eagles Drum & Bugle Corps. A gun salute will be fired by the Martocci-Capobianco Post 750 American Legion, Roseto. Taps will be played. Rain location, East Bangor United Methodist Community Church, 136 W. Central Ave. Info: 610-588-4453.

Artsquest annual Memorial Day Commemoration continues with a Memorial Day service at 3 p.m. featuring speakers Rep. Steve Samuelson, Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure, Lehigh County Executive Philips Armstrong, and Bethlehem Mayor William Reynolds, on the Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks stage with “A Time to Remember” in honor of the Lehigh Valley’s fallen soldiers from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The ceremony will be followed by a luminary display honoring those who served in the United States Armed Forces, “Remember Our Heroes” at 8 p.m. The Swing Time Dolls perform at 3:30 p.m. and Stefanie Johnson performs at 5 p.m.