Bowling Green’s Memorial Day Parade leaves the post office parking lot at South Main and Washington streets at 10 a.m. on Monday. The parade moves north on Main, turns east on Court Street, makes a stop at the Wood County Courthouse for a brief ceremony and then moves east to Enterprise Street, north to Ridge Street and then east to Oak Grove Cemetery.
LTC Steve Hopingardner, US Army Aviation, will deliver the keynote address at the Memorial Day Services at Oak Grove Cemetery and Memory Gardens Cemetery. Hopingardner is a professor of Military Science at Bowling Green State University and has served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Music will be provided by the Bowling Green High School Band and vocalist Evie Van Vohris. Members of the 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry/3rd Arkansas Civil War re-enactors will provide rifle salutes. BGSU Army ROTC Pershing Rifles and the Paul C. Ladd VFW Post 1148 will provide color guards.
In case of rain the program will be held at 10 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial Building in City Park. A service will also be held at the Memory Gardens Cemetery on Liberty High Road at 1 p.m. Paul C. Ladd VFW Post 1148 will also host coffee and doughnuts for veterans prior to the parade at the post.
