Memorial Day Parade search

May 8, 2009
by Bob Coulombe

The Memorial Day Service Committee is looking for some help. If you know of any servicemen or servicewomen currently serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, please send me their names as well as their branch of service and unit, so that we can recognize them as part of New Castle’s Memorial Day service.

We are also trying to learn whether there are any gold star mothers currently residing in our town. Again, if you know of one, can you please provide us with name and address so we may invite them along with family members as our guests to the service on Monday, May 25, 2009.

Preceding the parade, a laying of the wreath ceremony will take place at 10:30 a.m. at King Street and Bedford Road, the corner where several early star magnolias bloom.  Several town board members, veterans, clergy and Girl and Boy Scouts will be in attendance. 

Just after that ceremony, the parade will form at Ridgewood Terrace and King Street and step off promptly at 11:00 a.m. Every year, town government officials, Scouts, school bands, veterans, fire companies, the ambulance corps and many other local groups and organizations march down King Street to Memorial Plaza in front of the train station. 

This year, retired Commander Mike Tagg of the U.S. Coast Guard will speak. Bell students will present oral histories of New Castle veterans, and we will honor residents currently serving in conflicts. The service will conclude with a reading of the Honor Roll of New Castle dead.

Please contact me by email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by phone 914-747-4322.

Bob Coulombe is 21 year resident of New Castle, former captain of the Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corps and currently a commander in the New York Guard.  He is Grand Marshall for the Memorial Day parade. See his appeal for soldiers’ whereabouts on NCCTV

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