PRINEVILLE: Parade | Bridge Wreath Drop | Cemetery Service | Fairgrounds Ceremony
Parade
10:00 to 10:30am
4th and Main Street
Prineville OR 97754
[The parade makes its way east down 4th Street several blocks to Elm Street, ending at the Memorial Park area of Ochoco Creek Park, where there are POW/MIA and Hot Shots monuments. From here, folks walk north one block and pack the Elm Street Bridge across Ochoco Creek for a wreath-laying ceremony].
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Elm Street Bridge Wreath Drop
[After the parade, folks walk North on Elm Street one block to the Elm Street Bridge, the city’s new, main bridge over Ochoco Creek and orient themselves facing West for a special wreath ceremony. Representatives from the Prineville VFW Auxiliary and American Legion ceremonially drop specially-designed, all-natural memorial wreaths into the Creek in honor of U.S. military veterans who have died at sea].
10:30am* (*approximate time)
Elm Street Bridge
510 NE Elm Street
Prineville, OR 97754
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Juniper Haven Cemetery Service
11:00am*(*approximate time)
Juniper Haven Cemetery
1555 N Main Street
Prineville, OR 97754
[At this program Color Guard and members of the VFW Post and Auxiliary and American Legion and Auxiliary honor all veterans and unknown soldiers with a brief commentary and wreath placement]
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Crook County Fairgrounds Ceremony
1:00pm
Crook County Fairgrounds
1280 Main Street
Prineville, OR 97754
[The ceremony occurs next to the flagpoles of the Robert Ervin Veterans Memorial, located just inside the entrance of the Fairgrounds].
