MERCER COUNTY AREA
Memorial Day services
Holiday closings
Here are some of the businesses and services affected by the Memorial Day holiday:
- The Herald will publish a morning edition Monday. Obituary information will be accepted until 9 p.m. Sunday.
- Federal, state and local government offices will be closed Monday except for emergency services such as police, fire and 911.
- There will be no mail delivery Monday.
- Most banks and financial institutions will be closed Monday.
- Shenango Valley Community Library will be closed Sunday and Monday.
- Warren-Trumbull County Public Library and its branches, including Brookfield, will be closed Monday.
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NOTE: Some of these were received after the print-edition version was compiled and are more complete online
-- Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8860, Masury, will host the Brookfield Township Memorial Day observance on Monday with a parade followed by services and a program in Brookfield Township Cemetery.
Parade units will assemble at 9:30 a.m. behind Brookfield Middle School. The parade will move out at 10 a.m. and will march to the cemetery for the service and program.
John Brown III, from Disabled American Veterans Organization, will be guest speaker.
Farrell -- Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7597 will meet members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5286 at 9 a.m. Monday at the post, 1233 Idaho St., Farrell. The members will march to the marker by Farrell Area High School for a service that will include the laying of roses, invocation by the Rev. Donald E. Berdis, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Church, Farrell, and the Farrell Area High School Band performing "The Star Spangled Banner."
Greenville -- Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3374 and the Veterans Committee of American Legion Post 140 will hold a parade at 9 a.m. Main and Water streets and College Avenue will be closed from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
The parade will end at Shenango Valley Cemetery on College Avenue where there will be a wreath dropping service in the river.
Grove City -- Members of American Legion Post 220 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 519 will hold two services: at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Crestview Memorial Park; and following that at Grove City Memorial Park. Grove City High School history teacher Kathy Cardille will be mistress of ceremonies, and the Rev. James. A. Wiley, senior associate pastor of Church of the Beloved Disciple, Grove City, will deliver the benediction. Major David A. McFarland, director of ROTC at Slippery Rock University, will be the speaker. The Levets, made up of members of both organizations, will provide color guard, and flags will be placed on memorials by commanders of both posts. A public dinner will follow at Post 519.
Hermitage -- Members of Hermitage Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6166, the Hickory High Marching Band and numerous other groups will meet at 9:30 a.m. Monday at Hermitage Middle School, 123 N. Hermitage Road. The groups will depart at 10 a.m. for Hillcrest Memorial Park on East State Street for services. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Douglas Kennedy Dayton, the rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Sharon, will be the main speaker at services.
Jackson Center -- 11 a.m. Monday with the tolling of the bell in the tower of the Jackson Center Presbyterian Church. Mayor Lee R. Tharp, Carol Fowell, Mercer County Treasurer Virginia Steese Richardson and author Paul K. Cashdollar are set to speak. Boy Scouts will conduct a flag ceremony.
Jamestown -- A parade will begin at 9 a.m. Monday at Jamestown High School and will end with a brief service at Parklawn Cemetery.
Mercer -- A parade, featuring the Mighty Mercer Mustang Marching Band and military equipment from the National Guard and Army Reserves 475th Quartermaster Group and 347th Quartermaster Company, begins at 10 a.m. Monday on East Butler Street.
A service hosted by Mercer County Commissioner Cloyd E. "Gene" Brenneman will be at 11 am in the auditorium at Mercer High School. The speaker will be Fred Moore, member of the Society of the Honor Guard, and the soloist will be Tim McCall. Student essays will also be read at the ceremony.
There will be a short memorial service and wreath laying at the Mercer Citizen's Cemetery immediately following the service at the high school.
New Wilmington -- At 11 a.m. Monday a memorial service sponsored by the American Legion Post 728 in the Neshannock Presbyterian Church on 330 W. Neshannock Ave., New Wilmington.
Korean Veterans Memorial -- Second annual laying of the roses begins at 1 p.m. Sunday at the memorial near Oak Tree Country Club, West Middlesex.
Reynolds/Fredonia -- Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7599, 115 Edgewood Drive, Reynolds, will be the site of a wreath-laying ceremony with rifle fire at 8:15 a.m. Monday. Veterans will then march at about 8:45 a.m. from the ballfield on Rutledge Road in Transfer to the cemetery. At about 9:45 a.m., they will arrive in Fredonia to march from the Millbank Cemetery to the town square, where they will lay wreaths and will hear a speaker. In case of rain, Reynolds activities will be held in the Harvest Home Pavilion and Fredonia activities will be held in a local church.
Salem Township -- A Memorial Day service at 2 p.m. Sunday will celebrate the 200th anniversary Stevenson Cemetery on Methodist Road. The service will include guest speaker 2nd Lt. George Lenahan who works at the 910th Airlift Wing at Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station. Carol Smith, secretary of the Stevenson Cemetery Association and coordinator for the annual service, said there will be a military fly-over by an F-117 jet stealth fighter and the VFW Greenville Post 3374 firing squad will fire a salute.
Gwen Lininger, Greenville, representing the Daughters of the American Revolution, will give a history of Stevenson Cemetery and the Sons of the American Revolution will lay a wreath honoring Robert Morgan Roberts, a Revolutionary War soldier and the first known burial in Stevenson Cemetery. The national anthem will be sung by 11-year-old Alexa Magnotto of Hermitage.
The first 200 visitors will receive flags, compliments of state Sen. Robert D. "Bob" Robbins, Salem Township, R-50th District, and Tim Loomis, of Loomco Inc., Transfer. At the end of the service, everyone will sing "God Bless America," and hold up their flags, Mrs. Smith said.
Sharon -- At 11 a.m. Monday a parade will begin at American Legion Post 299 on East State Street. The parade will move down State Street to North Oakland Avenue to Oakwood Cemetery. There will be a brief memorial service in the cemetery following the parade.
Sharpsville -- A parade and ceremony will mark Memorial Day Monday in Sharpsville.
The parade will form at 8:30 a.m. at Sharpsville Plaza with a wreath laying ceremony and rifle salute at the memorial in the park after the flag raising.
The parade will proceed north on Walnut Street, east on Shenango Street, south on Mercer Avenue and east on Line Street into Riverside Cemetery to the Memorial Stand where a service will be held in memory of departed veterans of Sharpsville.
Sharpsville High School Band will provide music. Rev. Lee Weber will give the invocation. Alex Kovach will read Logan's Orders.
A soundtrack from Boy Scout Troop 45 on the United States' flag will be played. Charles Dugan will read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Larry Nocella will give the address.
The Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6404, Sharpsville, will conduct a wreath-laying at the cemetery memorial. Julius Caracci will read "A Lonely Day In May."
Sharpsville American Legion Post 162 and VFW Post 6404 will conduct the ceremony at the mound. American Legion and VFW members will conduct a rifle salute. Ryan Sobash and Colin Ward, of Sharpsville High's band, will present "Taps" and "Echo."
West Middlesex -- At 10 a.m. Monday a parade will begin at the West Middlesex post office on Fair Street. The parade ends at Haywood Cemetery, where there will be a short ceremony.
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Published Friday, May 25, 2001