From West Hartford Town Website -
The parade is scheduled for Monday, May 25, 2009, and will commence promptly at 10 a.m. from the corner of Woodrow Street and Farmington Avenue and proceed to the Town Hall. After the conclusion of the parade, a brief memorial service will be held at the West Hartford Veterans Memorial, located at the corner of Farmington Avenue and North Main Street.
Assembly of parade units will take place at 9:30 a.m. in designated areas west of Woodrow Street on Farmington Avenue. A listing of the parade units and line-up locations is found here.
The West Hartford Memorial Day Parade Committee appointed Colonel Donald Fenton, US Army (Retired) as the Parade Marshal and the Honorable Nancy Wyman, State Comptroller as the Honorary Parade Marshal of the 2009 West Hartford Memorial Day Parade.
West Hartford takes great pride in hosting its annual Memorial Day Parade. It follows a tradition established by returning West Hartford veterans from World War I in the 1920s.
The 2009 West Hartford Memorial Day Parade Committee is a joint endeavor and cooperative effort of the West Hartford Veterans Affairs Commission, The American Legion of West Hartford Hayes-Velhage Post 96, and Hannon-Hatch VFW Post 9929, in partnership with the Town of West Hartford.
Enjoy the day!
3 WH Responses:
Let's honor the brave veterans, the dead, the wounded, the heroes.
Then, let's work for peace.
and on a lighter note, the parade had some interesting new developments. this was the first year baseball teams outnumbered daisy/brownie/girl scouts in the parade. The first year with no horses and no fly-overs.
Yes I missed the fly-overs and the street sweeping machine at the end.
There's still plenty of horse manure in Town Hall though.
And why was the magnet school with the fancy marching band costumes in the parade? That's not a West Hartford school. Now Hall and Conard and the rest are gonna want fancy costumes too.
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