Brookfield

The annual Memorial Day parade begins at 10 a.m. Monday on Grove Street near Brookfield Middle School and will head south on state Route 7 to Brookfield Township Cemetery.

After the parade, a veterans memorial service will be held around the flag pole at the cemetery. Anyone wishing to participate in the parade is welcome. It will form at 9 a.m. behind the middle school.

Farrell-Wheatland

The final meeting of the Farrell-Wheatland War Memorial Monument organization was Tuesday. The Rev. Terry L. Weyman, pastor of Sharpsville Church of the Nazarene, spoke. A pastor for 25 years, he retired from the Air Force with 20 years of active duty.

The Memorial Day parade will assemble at 9 a.m. Monday at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5286, Idaho Street at Indiana Avenue, Farrell. The parade starts at 9:30 a.m. and goes south to Roemer Boulevard and east on Roemer to the monument.

Jim Scanga Jr. will direct the band. The Rev. Donald E. Berdis, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Church, Farrell, will give the benediction. Farrell Mayor Olive Brown McKeithan will speak. Willie Dinkins will present the wreath at the memorial; William Susinski, a red flower; Russ Henry, a white flower; Bob Davis, a blue flower; and a Vietnam veteran, a black flower. A salute to the dead “All Posts,” is planned.

Rev. Harris, assistant at Greater Mount Zion Church of God in Christ, Farrell, will give the benediction. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7597, Farrell, is host.

Greenville

Members of Greenville Veterans Council, American Legion Post 140, Greenville, and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3374, Hempfield Township, are hosting the Memorial Day parade at 9 a.m. Monday in downtown Greenville.

All marching units must meet at 8:30 a.m. on Water Street. The parade will go east on Main Street with a stop at the American Legion for a ceremony with featured speaker Benjamin “B.J.” Mozes.

Mozes is a Commodore Perry High School graduate who served with the Army and was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, and in Iraq. He’s a sixth-grade teacher at Commodore Perry and serves as Mercer County Agland Preservation administrator.