Memorial Day Parade Monday, May 26

If Your Group Wishes to March, Please Contact Reginald Butt

Quentin Roosevelt Post #4 The American Legion will hold its 89th Annual Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 26. The parade coordinator is Post Commander Reginald Butt. The assembly time is 10 a.m. and the parade will start at 10:30 a.m. The assembly areas are: South Street, Adams Street and Burtis Avenue.

The parade will have three divisions consisting as follows:

The wreaths laid at the monument last Memorial Day, by the American Legion and the VFW, are still there. The bronze plaque on the flagpole states: Memorial Field Dedicated to Honor The Men and Women of The Community of Oyster bay Who Served Their Country In World War I - World War II - Korea - Vietnam Quentin Roosvelt Post No. 4 American Legion.

First Division: The American Legion Quentin Roosevelt Post #4, the Veteran's of Foreign Wars Oyster Bay Memorial Post #8033; Oyster Bay High School band; Oyster Bay Lions Club; the Masonic Lodge; the members of the Doubleday Babcock Senior Center; and the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary & Audubon Center.

There will be military vehicles and classic cars to help transport veterans who are unable to march.

Second Division: Boys Scouts from Troop 299 and Troop 253; the Middle School Band; the Cub Scouts; the Girl Scouts; local sports teams.

Third Division: Atlantic Steamer Fire Company; Oyster Bay Fire Company No. 1; and the East Norwich Fire Company.

If any group would like to participate in the parade, please contact Reginald Butt at 922-7135. If anyone has an antique or classic car and would like to help transport veterans please contact Parade Coordinator Butt.

Prior to Memorial Day the Legionnaires will be distributing Poppies at Stop & Shop and will have a table set up in front of the Legion building at 120 South Street.

On Sunday, May 25, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold services at four locations. They start at flagpole at Memorial Field at the Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School; then go to TR's gravesite in Youngs Cemetery; then to Sagamore Hill at the memorial for Quentin Roosevelt; and last at the monument in front of the Italian-American Club on Summit Street.

Commander Butt said he knew the Roosevelt School playing field was a war memorial but he said he didn't know that the same committee that donated the property to the school for the playing field also donated the land for the parking lot the Town of Oyster Bay named War Memorial Field, a.k.a. Firemen's Field.