Dateline: May 24, 2001

Legion, VFW plan Memorial Day services 

Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise

Events for the Memorial Day weekend are shaping up with Donley County residents making preparations to honor America’s fallen soldiers.

Local Girl Scouts and members of the Adamson/Lane Post 287 of the American Legion will meet this Friday at 1 p.m. to place flags on the soldiers’ graves at Rowe Cemetery. On Saturday, Donley County Memorial Post 7782 of the VFW will be joining forces with Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops to decorate Citizens Cemetery. The flags will remain on the graves until 5 p.m. next Monday.

The first ceremony for this Memorial Day will be Saturday at the Rowe Cemetery near Hedley. The American Legion will begin that service at 10 a.m. The Girl Scouts will also participate in that ceremony.

On Monday, members of the Clarendon Lions Club will be setting out flags downtown. Later, services will be conducted at Citizens Cemetery beginning at 9:45 a.m.  The VFW will be participating, and members of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are expected to attend. The Hedley Choir will be performing as well.

Following the cemetery service, the attendees will travel to the Donley County War Memorial on the Courthouse Square where the VFW will conduct their usual service at approximately 10:30 a.m.

Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend these ceremonies and exercise their patriotism this Memorial Day.