OLD LYME — The Old Lyme Memorial Day Parade will kick off from the Lyme Street Firehouse at 11 a.m. today, Monday, May 30, and continue to the Duck River Cemetery where appropriate ceremonies hosted by VFW Post 1467 will be held to honor the country’s fallen Veterans.
There will be marchers from Old Lyme including the Lyme-Old Lyme (LOL) High and Middle School Bands and several others.
The New London Firefighters Pipes & Drums along with the Deep River Fife & Drum Corps will also participate.
Contingencies from the Connecticut Army and Air National Guard will support the parade with vehicles from the Army National Guard Firefighter Detachment and a C-130 flyover by the Air National Guard.
If inclement weather prevails, the ceremonies will be moved inside to the LOL Middle School auditorium.
Lymes’ Youth Service Bureau (LYSB) invites any youth in Lyme and Old Lyme, who are not already participating in this year’s Memorial Day parade down Lyme St. and McCurdy Rd., to join the parade and march with them.
The organization’s tag-line for the event is, “Everyone belongs at LYSB!”
Decorate your bikes, scooters, wagons, strollers … basically anything with wheels (but nothing that is motorized) and then join the fun!
Meet at the corner of the Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School tennis courts (behind the large illuminated “Lyme-Old Lyme Public Schools” sign) at 10:30 a.m.