Memorial Day Parade Features BatMobile This Year

Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, veterans, parade floats, festively festooned bicycles and lots and lots of waving of the red, white and blue.

What more could you want?

Well, there is an exciting new addition to the Maplewood Memorial Day Parade this year on Monday, May 30 — a vintage Bat Mobile, driven by its owner, a former Maplewood resident and avid classic car collector.

Joan Crystal, source of all Memorial Day wisdom, tells us that this year's parade will start at Columbia High School student parking lot per usual, at 17 Parker Avenue in Maplewood, at 9 a.m. The parade heads west on West Parker Avenue to Maplewood Avenue to Baker Street to Town Hall. 

Participants will include local war veterans, Maplewood Township Committee members, the Maplewood Committee for Servicemen and Women, Maplewood Glee Club, Columbia High School Marching Band, Scout troops, Classic Cars (including the aforementioned 1966 Bat Mobile), Rotary Club, Kiwanis, Maplewood Volunteer First Aid Squad, Maplewood Fire Department, and many more.

After the parade there will be a ceremony at Town Hall honoring those veterans who have passed away. A roll call of VFW members who died in the past year and the placing of the wreath will conclude the ceremony. (The at the Oakview Bridge in Memorial Park after the ceremony at Town Hall concludes.)

Here, in full detail, is the order of march (check the Memorial Parade thread on MaplewoodOnline for updates (it's in the Maplewood Specific section):

Division 1

• Veterans
• Township Committee
• Maplewood Committee for Servicemen and Women
• Maplewood Glee Club
• Columbia High School Marching Band

Division 2 - Youth Groups and Community Band

• Girl Scouts
• Boy Scouts: Pack 3
• Boy Scouts: Troop 5
• Maplewood Karate
• Maplewood Community Band
• Clinton School
• Tuscan School

Division 3 - Classic Cars

• Classic Cars: The 1966 Bat Mobile

Division 4 - Community Groups 

• Maplewood Library
• Adult School
• 1978 Maplewood Art Center
• Strollers
• Hilton Neighborhood Association
• 4th of July Committee featuring Tin Can Man
• SO/M Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Committee
• South Mountain Peace Action
• CCRMaplewoodstock

Division 5 - Service Organizations

• Rotary
• Kiwanis
• Maplewood Volunteer First Aid Squad
• Maplewood Fire Department