Memorial Day observances

All events are on May 26 unless otherwise noted.

Apollo

Apollo Volunteer Fire Department No. 2 will sponsor a service at 9 a.m. at Memorial Square in Apollo Plaza.

Vandergrift/Parks/Allegheny Township/East Vandergrift

Veterans will gather at 7:30 a.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 141 Sumner Ave., and leave at 7:45 a.m. for services at local memorials. Services planned in order include: North Vandergrift memorial in Parks Township, Vandergrift Bridge, Century 21 in Towne Center, the Kiski Area High School driveway circle, Vandergrift Cemetery, St. Gertrude Cemetery and East Vandergrift Memorial. Breakfast will be served to ceremony participants before the parade at the VFW. The parade will stage at 9:45 a.m. at Kiski Area East Primary School on Franklin Avenue, step off at 10:15 a.m. and proceed down Franklin Avenue to Grant Avenue to the Casino Theatre. Korean War veterans will be honored on the anniversary of the outbreak of that conflict and letters that were sent home by servicemen who were killed in action in various wars will be read aloud. Parking will be available in the Washington Avenue parking lot. Groups wishing to participate should contact Mike Reilly at mjreilly138@gmail.com.

West Deer, East Deer and Indiana Township

West Deer American Legion and Auxiliary and Sons of the American Legion will hold services at 8:30 a.m. at the Bairdford World War II Memorial, 9 a.m. at the West Deer Municipal Building, 9:30 a.m. at Rural Ridge Volunteer Fire Dept., 10:15 a.m. at the East Deer Memorial, 11 a.m. at the Indiana Township Memorial, 11:30 a.m. at Lakewood Memorial Gardens and 12:30 p.m. at the West Deer American Legion. Lunch will be served after the 12:30 p.m. ceremony at the American Legion by the post auxiliary. The American Legion James “Mustard” Yaconis Scholarship Awards will be presented during lunch. Everyone welcome.

Winfield

A community service will be at 11 a.m. May 25 at Sower’s Chapel, 100 Iron Bridge Road. The special honoree will be the late Cpl. Joseph Rodney Chapman, who served during World War II in Company A, 139th Infantry Division as a Browning automatic rifleman in Gen. George S. Patton’s 3rd Army. Chapman was a lifelong resident of Freeport and passed away in 2022 at the age of 101. Vandergrift Joint Veterans will perform a flag ceremony and slow salute. Refreshments will be served. Details: 724-353-2220 or sowerschapel.org.

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