Memorial Day will be celebrated on May 27 and May 28 in local programs by many veteran posts and auxiliary posts.
On Sunday, May 27, the Polish Legion of American Veterans Post 185 of the Polonia area will participate in a military Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 9 a.m. A breakfast is planned after the dedication of the memorial stone done by Haertel Monument Corp. in recognition of Polish Legion American Veterans having served this country.
The same day at 10 a.m. the American Legion Rosholt Post 503 will host a Memorial Day ceremony at their clubhouse with a barbecue chicken dinner served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The American Legion Post 6 of Stevens Point will conduct rifle salutes on Memorial Day (observed Monday), May 28, at Veterans Park on the south side at 9 a.m. and then a salute at the Civil War Monument at the County-City Building at 9:15 a.m. with a wreath laying ceremony by the VFW Post 568 & Auxiliary of Stevens Point.
The Polish Legion of American Veterans Polonia Post 185 will have a short ceremony and salute at the Casimir Pulaski Memorial on the east side of Stevens Point at 9:30 a.m. Other participating Stevens Point and Portage County organizations are Disabled American Veterans Post 30 & Auxiliary, AMVETS Post 1051, Vietnam Veterans of America Post 115, U.S. Marine Corps League, Civil Air Patrol Cadets, Navy and Coast Guard Fleet Reserves of Central Wisconsin, 40 et 8 Voiture No. 831.
They will meet at Pfiffner-Pioneer Park at 10:15 a.m.to participate in the Grand Color Guard March to the City Bandshell with performances of patriotic music by the City Band. Keynote speaker will be Mayor Gary Wescott with county Veteran Services Officer Thomas Pesanka as emcee. Gold Star Mothers, past and present, will be honored.
The DAV Post 30 & Auxiliary will ring the DAV Liberty Bell to let freedom ring at 11:15 a.m. after the American Legion Post 6 does its Taps and Rifle Salute at the conclusion of the Memorial Day Program.
An airplane will fly over and drop a wreath made by Florence Dahlman upon the Wisconsin River in remembrance of those airmen, sailors, marines and soldiers who were lost in sea duty serving overseas during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf War.
Members of 10 veteran and auxiliary organizations have been placing 3,840 U.S. flags at Portage County grave sites of veterans during the weeks of May 17-28 to honor those veterans who have made the ultimate sacrifice and are buried in 58 area cemeteries.
Plover VFW Post 10262 and American Legion Post #543 will probably be the busiest veterans units on Monday, holding a number of ceremonies at cemeteries and memorials in the Plover area.
McDill Cemetery, County Trunk HH, 8 a.m.; Liberty Corners Cemetery, County Trunk J, 8:30 a.m.; Maine Cemetery, South Hoover Avenue, 8:50 a.m.; Korean War Memorial, Lake Pacawa in Plover, 9:10 a.m.; Restlawn Cemetery, Highway 54 in Wood County, 9:40 a.m.; Meehan Cemetery, Highway 54 and Meehan Drive, 10 a.m.; St. Bronislava Cemetery, Highway 54 in Plover, 10:20 a.m.; Plover Cemetery, River Drive in Plover, 10:40 a.m.; and Veterans Memorial Park, Post Road at Village Hall, 11 a.m.
After the ceremonies conclude at Veterans Memorial Park, a potluck dinner will follow at the Plover VFW clubhouse on Hickory Drive.
Members of the Rifle Squad are to assemble at the Plover VFW Clubhouse on Hickory Drive at 7 a.m.
In Amherst, the village will hold its annual Memorial Day parade, beginning at 9 a.m. with a ceremony in the gym at Amherst High School. The parade begins after the program, with groups and individuals marching to the bridge on Mill Street for a ceremony at the Tomorrow River.
Then groups and individuals march to Greenwood Cemetery for a ceremony at the flagpole.