Memorial Day .... (Raleigh, Durham, Wilmington: neighborhood, university, area)

[Jamerican]

I was wondering if anyone happen to know of anything interesting going on for kids in the South Point area for Memorial Day weekend?

[betty78]

I was looking too - these are all that is listed on the WRAL and N&O websites.



Keeping up the holiday's traditions - Local & State - News & Observer



Monday


The Summerfield North neighborhood in Raleigh will hold an old-fashioned parade at 10:30 a.m. Participants should dress patriotically and gather at the intersection of Apple Orchard Way and Mourning Dove Road.
For more information, e-mail social@summerfieldnorth.com.




Tar Heel Detachment 733 of the Marine Corps League will sponsor a Memorial Day ceremony at the state Capitol in downtown Raleigh. The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. with patriotic music performed by the St. Francis Brass Quintet. A wreath-laying ceremony will follow, along with a performance by Alicia Grant of her song "Brave Soldiers of the USA" and a speech by Steve Wilson, a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War. The event will close with a 21-gun salute and more band music. For more information contact John Staley of the Marine Corps League, 349-2540.
That ceremony will be followed by one at noon by the N.C. Vietnam Veterans Inc., also on the Capitol grounds.


The Garner VFW will hold a ceremony at 11:30 a.m. at Monday at Montlawn Memorial Park, 2911 S. Wilmington St. in Raleigh.


Maplewood Cemetery, 1621 Duke University Road in Durham, will be the site of a Memorial Day ceremony at 6 p.m. It will include a Durham firefighters' honor guard, a wreath-laying ceremony, patriotic songs performed by Neil Donnelly and a speech by American Legion Post 7 Commander Joel Lipsey.