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West Bend’s Memorial Day parade steps off at 9:30 a.m. on Monday

May 25, 2017 – West Bend, WI – The Memorial Day parade in West Bend will step off at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, May 29 and head north from South Main Street and Oak Street to Hickory Street and back down Sixth Avenue to Poplar Street.

A ceremony will follow in the Old Courthouse Square.

That program begins at 11 a.m. and will feature World War II veteran Allan Kieckhafer as master of ceremonies.

The Memorial Day Speaker is Vietnam veteran Richard Lindbeck.

 

The Reverend Clarissa Martinelli of Fifth Avenue Methodist Church will give the Invocation and Benediction. Other tributes will include a Preamble of the Constitution by West Bend East sophomore Grace Peplinski, Gettysburg Address by West Bend East sophomore Rachel Roeber, a reading of the poem “In Flanders Field” by West Bend West junior Anna Pitz and performances by the West Bend High School Band and the River City Irregulars.

 

In case of inclement weather the ceremony will move to the second floor chambers at the Old County Courthouse.

 

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