Pair Of Memorial Day Weekend Parades On Tap In Vernon

VERNON, CT — Vernon has two Memorial Day events planned for the long weekend.

Here's the deal:

Sunday, May 24

What is perhaps Connecticut’s shortest Memorial Day parade will step off from Talcottville Church, 10 Elm Hill Road in Vernon, and travel the short distance to Mount Hope Cemetery. The parade begins at 9 a.m. and includes vintage cars, fife and drum corps and anyone else who’d like to march.
People join in and are part of the parade rather than stand along the sidelines and watch. The ceremony at the
cemetery includes a recitation of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The parade forms up at 8:30 a.m. in the church
parking lot and will take place rain or shine.

Monday, May 25

Vernon's Memorial Day parade steps off at 10 a.m. at Northeast School and proceeds a short distance to Grove Hill Cemetery, where a ceremony to honor veterans takes place. After the
ceremony, the parade forms back up on Hale Street and continues from Hale Street to Grove Street, to East
Main Street and into downtown Rockville. The parade wraps around Central Park in front of Vernon Town Hall.
A Memorial Day observance then takes place at the veterans’ memorial in Central Park. Connecticut Air National Guard C-130s have been requested to fly over Rockville between 10:30 and 11 a.m., weather permitting. The parade grand marshal is Army veteran Joseph Michael Saveriano, who served from 1989 to 1997. The Rockville High School and Vernon Center Middle School bands will march in the parade, along with
veterans, firefighters, scouts and others.