MEMORIAL DAY EVENTS
TODAY
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 Hous e of the Lehigh Valley. Rain date: June 26.
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The American Legion Brown & Lynch Post No. 9, Palmer Township, will conduct Memorial Day ceremonies at 9 a.m. at the veterans section of the Northampton Memorial Shrine Cemetery, 3051 Green Pond Road, Easton. Color Guard from the Northampton County Detachment #298 Marine Corps League will participate.
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.
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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.
Sons of Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic will hold services at Fairview Cemetery, Cherryville Road, Northampton, 8:15 a.m.; St. Peter’s (Snyder’s) United Church of Christ Church, Seemsville, 9 a.m.; Emmanuel Church Cemetery, Emanuelsville, 10:20 a.m.; Christ Little Moore Church cemetery, between Klecknersville and Rockville, 11 a.m.; Horner’s Cemetery, Nor-Bath Highway, noon; and Zion Stone Church, Kriedersville, 2 p.m.
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. The Honor Guard from the Northampton County Detachment #298 Marine Corps League will participate.
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Sons of Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic will hold services at Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Plot, Lincoln and Dewey avenues, Northampton, 8 a.m.; Allen Union Cemetery, Fourth and Main streets, Northampton, 8:45 a.m., rain location: Grace United Church of Christ, Ninth and Lincoln streets, Northampton; St. Johns United Church of Christ, Howertown, 9:45 a.m.; Siegfried Memorial Plot, W. 21st Street, Northampton, 11 a.m.
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.”