Memorial Day events
Trumbull County
Friday
• NILES — The National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Museum will host a Memorial Day choir concert 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday with a patriotic-themed concert by the Valley Senior Choir.
Saturday
• KINSMAN — Salute to Veterans at Kinsman American Legion Harry Lees Post #506, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday
• McDONALD – Service and placing of flags at 1 p.m. at War Memorial at Woodland Park
Monday
• BRACEVILLE — Parade starts at 11 a.m. at the center and will travel to the cemetery for a service at 11:30 a.m. followed by lunch at noon at the road department garage.
• BROOKFIELD — Procession starts at 10 a.m. on Grove Street near the library and travels to the cemetery for a ceremony. U.S. Marine Corps veteran Corban Baker is the guest speaker. The ladies auxiliary of the fire department will hold a luncheon at the fire hall following the ceremony.
• CHAMPION — Parade starts at 9 a.m. and will travel from the high school south on Mahoning Avenue and turn onto state Route 305 to the cemetery for a program. There will be a Missing in Action display.
• CORTLAND — The Cortland Veterans Memorial Committee and the city of Cortland will dedicate the South High Street bridge over Walnut Run in honor of Cortland area veterans. The dedication ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. on the bridge. Those attending are asked to bring a folding chair.
• FOWLER — Services will be 10 a.m. on the center green followed by the parade and ceremony at 11 a.m.
• GIRARD — A service will begin at the Girard City Cemetery at 11 a.m. Pastor Rhonda Gallagher of Trinity Lutheran Church of Girard will give an invocation and benediction. Civil Air Patrol cadets will raise the flag while the Girard High School Band plays the national anthem. Girard High School valedictorian Andrew Whitfield and salutatorian Sydney Swertfager will recite the Gettysburg Address.
The reading of all the names of Girard veterans killed in combat will be class presidents of Girard High School: Miles LaPolla, grade 9; Norah Anness, grade 10; Gage McMillan, grade 11; and Madelyn Gassman, grade 12, followed by the band playing the Armed Forces Medley. There will be a placing of the wreath with a rifle salute by the Girard Veterans Council Honor Guard, along with the playing of Taps and “Amazing Grace” by bagpiper Leslie Kloc.
• HOWLAND — Hosted by Howland American Legion Post 700 at 10 a.m. at the township cemetery, Trumbull County Central District Court Judge Thomas Campbell will be the guest speaker. In the event of rain, the service will be moved to the Howland SCOPE Center.
• JOHNSTON — VFW Post 7614 will host a ceremony at 10 a.m, at the cemetery located next to the fire department. Lunch will be available after the ceremony.
• LEAVITTSBURG — The annual Memorial Day parade hosted by the American Legion Post 699 will begin at 10 a.m. downtown and march to the war memorial in the parking lot of the old high school immediately afterward. The speaker is Pastor John Jaros of First Community Church of Leavittsburg.
• LORDSTOWN — Ceremony will be at 10 a.m. at the cemetery off Salt Springs Road.
• NEWTON FALLS — A parade will form at the west parking lot of Cadle Company by the fire station at 10 a.m. and will move out at 10:30 a.m., heading south on North Canal to Broad Street then west on Broad Street to the West River Bridge. Judge Philip Vigorito with Kelley Brasko and Maryanne Madison from VFW Auxiliary 3332 will hold a service for the men and women lost at sea. The parade will proceed to Veterans Park, where the Memorial Day program will take place.
• WARREN — Program will begin at 11 a.m. at the Warren Community Amphitheatre with guest speaker Jim Rapone, a Vietnam veteran from Champion, who will speak on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. The parade will be at noon and travel from Perkins Park to Mahoning Avenue and through the downtown area around Courthouse Square.
• VIENNA — A ceremony will take place at 12:30 p.m. at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at the township center.
• WEATHERSFIELD — A service will take place at 9 a.m. at the community park off state Route 46.