Don't Miss: Annual Wayland Memorial Day Parade, Ceremony, Event

Be sure to get your blankets and folding chairs ready to plop along the parade route.

Wayland’s annual Memorial Day Parade and festivities are being planned for Monday, May 25.

The parade steps off at 11 a.m. from the Middle School and proceeds along Route 27 to Route 30 to the Lakeview Cemetery in Cochituate.

Here is the schedule, as posted by the Public Ceremonies Committee:

EARLY MORNING CEREMONIES
Brief Tributes to Veterans in each Cemetery
8:30 a.m. - Ceremony at St. Zepherin’s Cemetery (Bent Avenue)
8:50 a.m. - Ceremony at WWII Memorial (Opposite the Villa)
9:15 a.m. - Ceremony at South Cemetery (Route 27 South)
9:45 a.m. -Ceremony at North Cemetery (Route 27 North)
10:15 a.m. - Ceremony at Wayland Veterans Memorial, Wayland Town Building

PARADE SCHEDULE

All times are approximate
10:30 a.m. Form Parade at the Wayland Middle School, 201 Main Street

• Color Guard of Flags
• MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE at the Cemetery
• Welcome: Mary M. Antes, Vice Chair, Wayland Board of Selectmen
• Carmen Gentile, State Representative
• Alice H. Peisch, State Representative
• State Senator Richard J. Ross
• Invocation
• Chaplain Captain St. Pierre, Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford Massachusetts
• Boy Scouts with Flags
• American Legion Post #133, Wayland Color Guard and Firing Squad
• Gettysburg Address
• Margret Davies, Wayland High School Student
• Keynote Address, Mr. Mathew Lupold, WWII B17 Navigator who flew 26 Missions

Noon - Flag Raising by Richard P. Turner USN Ret, and Grand Marshal

• Award Freedom Prize
• Mr. John C.Dyer, Public Ceremonies Committee
• Musical Selection
• America, My Country ‘Tis of Thee, by the Wayland High School Band, Joseph Oneschuk, Conductor
• Salute
• American Legion Firing Squad
• Echo Taps
• Wayland High School Trumpeters
• Closing Prayer
• Chaplain Captain St. Pierre, Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford Massachusetts

12:30 p.m. Parade returns to the Wayland Middle School via Pemberton Road to West Plain Street