WEST PARIS – A parade will be held in town on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28. The parade will form at 10:30 a.m. in front of the Finnish American/American Legion Hall on Maple Street and will step off at 11. Grand marshals will be Myron Pierce and Lenwood Andrews.

After marching to center of town, participants will salute the flag and sing the “Star Spangled Banner.”

The parade will march to the bridge where a prayer will be offered by Pastor Lloyd Waterhouse and flower will be tossed into river by the Ring-McKeen Post 151, American Legion, Auxiliary.

Marchers will go to the cemetery for a prayer by Pastor Bruce Tyner. Waterhouse will give a Memorial Day address and bagpiper Randy Mills will provide a tribute.

The grand marshals will be introduced and presented flowers. “Flanders Fields” will be read by Bertha DeHaas and the school band will provide music.

Auxiliary members will decorate graves and a gun salute will be given by Legion members and “Taps” by the school trumpeter.

The parade will return to the veterans’ monuments in the park at the corner of Main and Maple streets where Waterhouse will offer a prayer and Auxiliary members will decorate the monuments. Mills will play “Amazing Grace.”

Emery Ryerson will give a “Veteran’s Prayer Tribute” and the assembly will sing “God Bless America.”

Popsicles will be given out at the Finnish American Hall, Maple Street.

In case of rain, ceremonies will be held in West Paris Grange Hall, 4 Church St.

The parade is sponsored by Ring-McKeen Post and Auxiliary.