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Volume 20 • Issue No. 21
2024 Memorial Day Parades and Ceremonies more information, visit www.berwickmelegionpost79.org.
Arundel
The Arundel Historical Society will host a Memorial Day Remembrance on Sunday, May 26, 11 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial at the Arundel Fire Station. The program includes a welcome and invocation, songs performed by the Mildred L. Day School students, a flag raising ceremony, and the ceremonial laying of a wreath. Volunteers will read from the Veterans Honor Roll, which lists the names of Arundel veterans, past and present. A benediction and gun salute follow, ending with “Taps.” The Arundel Historical Society performs the ceremony every year on the Sunday before Memorial Day, so as not to interfere with the ceremonies in Kennebunkport and Kennebunk. For more information, visit www.arundelhistoricalsociety. org.
Kennebunk
The Kennebunk Memorial Day parade starts at 2 p.m. on Monday, May 27. Procession marches down Main Street (Route 1), with a concert and guest speakers at Town Hall. Ceremonies conclude with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Mousam River Bridge.
Kennebunkport
Photos, courtesy of the VFW Post 5744 Facebook page, from a past ceremony and parade in South Berwick.
Berwick
The Berwick Memorial Day Parade starts at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 27 at the Berwick Town Hall, 11 Sullivan Street. Following a memorial service at Lord’s Cemetery, the parade will reform and continue to the Somersworth-Berwick Bridge, where a brief ceremony will be held
in memory of those lost at sea. The parade will conclude where it started, at Sullivan Square, with a memorial service honoring Berwick veterans who lost their lives in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I and II, Korea and Vietnam. Guest speaker is Post Commander Bryan English.
Parade and ceremonies are open to the public. Should the parade be cancelled due to inclem ent weather, there will be an indoor ceremony at 11 a.m. at the Berwick Town Hall auditorium. Events sponsored by the American Legion Charles S. Hatch Post #79 and Auxiliary Unit #79. For
The Kennebunkport Memorial Day parade starts at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, May 27, in Dock Square, Kennebunk. Spectators star t lining the streets by 9 a.m. from Kennebunk’s Lower Village by the Clam Shack, across the Mat Lanigan Bridge to the center of Dock Square by the Monument, where
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Wild Baby Birthday Bash Fundraiser at CFW CAPE NEDDICK The spring season is a busy time of year at Center for Wildlife (CFW), as both the Baby Mammal and Baby Bird Recovery Rooms continue to fill up with injured and orphaned baby animals. In years past, CFW has cared for 270 baby squirrels in a single season alone. The care of the hundreds of baby animals that come through the doors each spring require tremendous amounts of supplies and staffing support. With no state or federal funding, CFW relies on the support of local communities to help make the care for these orphaned baby animals possible.
CFW is inviting the public to join in celebrating baby season during the Wild Baby Birthday Bash on Saturday, June 1, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. at CFW’s community campus, 375 Mountain Road, Cape Neddick. During the event, community members are welcome to join in for a behindthe-scenes look at CFW’s Wildlife Medical Clinic and the feeding of baby animals. There will also be, family-friendly birthday games for animal friends, as well as meet-and-greets with CFW’s ambassador animals. “Our Wild Baby Birthday Bash fundraising event is an amazing opportunity for
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KITTERY Fort Foster re-opened to the public this week, after extensive repairs were made to areas damaged by the winter storms. The fort will be closing at 2 p.m. on Friday, May 24, in preparation for its official full season opening on Memorial Day weekend. The regular 2024 season schedule will then follow, opening daily, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. or sunset (whichever is earlier), on Saturday, May 25, through Friday, August 16. Fort Foster will be closing at 2 p.m. on Friday, June 7, for the Traip Academy Graduation
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website, listed below. As the largest and only wildlife center of its kind in the seacoast region, Center for Wildlife admits more than 2,000 injured wild animals annually, fields 15,000 phone calls on its Wildlife Assistance Hotline,
and presents more than 400 environmental education programs to 10,000 community members. The work is accomplished with no state or federal funding. For more information and a link to CFW’s Amazon Wish List, visit www.thecenterforwildlife.org.
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our local community to get involved and support the work of Center for Wildlife’s Medical Clinic during this crucial time of year. Not only will community members be able to learn more about our work and collect much needed items for the care of inured and orphaned babies but also get the opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at the care of baby animals currently being treated in our clinic,” said Bob Dale, Marketing & Outreach Coordinator at CFW. Attendees are encouraged to bring a “birthday present” to the event. CFW’s Amazon Wish List link can be found on their
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Ceremony. Visitors are asked to vacate the park by 1:30 p.m., for the gate to be closed at 2 p.m. This is an important and special event for the graduating students and their families. The staff at Fort Foster asks that the com-
munity join in congratulating the Class of 2024, and to respect their opportunity to celebrate this important milestone at Fort Foster. After Fort Foster closes for the season on August 16, there
will be no attendants at the park, but the gates will remain open to the public, providing vehicle access to the main parking lot, pier parking lot and increased parking near the large pavilion and by the ball field near Battery Chapin. Portable toilets will remain in the park though October. The town’s portable toilet servicing vendor has warned the Town that if they discover pet waste in the portable toilets again, they will no longer provide the toilet service. Fort Foster is a carry-in/carry-out park, and See FORT on page 11 . . .
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