Mishawaka Memorial Day Parade seeks volunteers and floats

South Bend Tribune
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People wave flags May 27, 2019, during the Mishawaka Memorial Day Parade in downtown Mishawaka.
People wave flags May 27, 2019, during the Mishawaka Memorial Day Parade in downtown Mishawaka.

MISHAWAKA — The committee organizing the Mishawaka Memorial Day Parade seeks volunteers to work the day of the parade and organizations and individuals to enter floats in the parade, the city’s first since 2019.

Volunteers are needed to help with line-up and walking the route to help with the different floats and individuals in the parade. People need to be able to walk the entire route.

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Floats, marching bands and any patriotic organization that would like to march in the parade can fill out an application. The floats should have this year’s theme: Duty-Honor-Country.

The parade steps off at 9:30 a.m. May 29 from Main and Third streets and continues to Battell Park, 301 W. Mishawaka Ave.

Memorial ceremonies also will take place at 7 a.m. at Little St. Joseph Cemetery, 357 W. Jefferson Blvd.; 7:15 a.m. at Mishawaka City Cemetery, 1300 N. Main St.; and at 7:30 a.m. at Fairview Cemetery, 1415 N. Main St. A tribute to sailors takes place at 8:45 a.m. at Beutter Park, 120 Ironworks Ave.

Every applicant needs to fill out registration forms.

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Apply by May 5.

For more information, visit facebook.com/mishawakamemorialdayparade or call Dan Gann at the Veterans of Foreign Wars at 574-229-1085 or Doug West at the American Legion at 574-286-3336.

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Organizers seek volunteers, floats for Mishawaka Memorial Day Parade