Parade Route, Speaker Announced For Memorial Day Parade

This years Memorial Day Parade will start at 9:00 a.m. at St. Paul’s Church on Peck Street. The parade will continue to Farmington Avenue and down to Massiro Drive, ending at VFW Post 10732, where a Memorial Day Ceremony will take place.

There will be an Invocation by Father Michael, St. Paul’s Church. The Berlin High School Chorus, directed by Robert Kelly, will sing the National Anthem. Members of the McGee Middle School Band, under the direction of Marlene Bradshaw, and the Berlin High School Band, directed by Mark Bowling, will play a musical selection.

There will be a rifle volley by the joint members of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 10732 and members of the American Legion Post 68. Berlin High School Trumpeters will play taps.

This year’s special guest speaker is our own State Representative, Joseph Aresimowicz, a life-long resident of Berlin. He attended Berlin Public Schools and is a member of St. Paul’s Church. He served in the United States Army Reserve from 1990 – 1997 as a Combat Medic and was stationed at the 819th Station Hospital in West Hartford, CT.

He received an Honorable Discharge with a rank of Corporal E-4. Aresimowicz was a Berlin Little League Coach for 6 years. He was also the Head Coach of the New Britain Rising Stars AAU Basketball and CT Basketball Club for 4 years. Aresimowicz is the Director of Berlin Midget Football and has been for 14 years. He is also the Assistant Football Coach at Berlin High School. He was elected as State Representative of the 30th District (Berlin & Southington) in 2004 – Present.

In September 2010 he announced an event to be held on December 14, 2010, that he co-sponsored. A special ceremony was held at McGee Middle School to honor Berlin Veterans with a Connecticut Wartime Service Medal. On September 27, 2010, a bill introduced by Aresimowicz, prohibiting nursing home facilities from restricting veterans from accessing prescription drug benefits, offered through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, became a new state law on Friday, October 1, 2010.

In the event of rain the exercises will be held in the VFW Hall Post 10732, Massirio Drive at 9:00 a.m.