Whitefish cancels annual Memorial Day parade
HEIDI DESCH | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 7 months AGO
The Memorial Day parade makes its way down Second Street toward the Whitefish Cemetery on Memorial Day. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Heidi Desch is features editor and covers Flathead County for the Daily Inter Lake. She previously served as managing editor of the Whitefish Pilot, spending 10 years at the newspaper and earning honors as best weekly newspaper in Montana. She was a reporter for the Hungry Horse News and has served as interim editor for The Western News and Bigfork Eagle. She is a graduate of the University of Montana. She can be reached at [email protected] or 406-758-4421. | May 22, 2020 1:00 AM
This year’s Memorial Day parade through Whitefish has been canceled.
Whitefish’s Lion Mountain VFW Post 276 hosts the parade and ceremony every May on Memorial Day to honor veterans who have died.
VFW Commander Fred Hamilton said while everyone could use a parade this year, the VFW felt it best to cancel due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The VFW members will still be putting the flags up around the cemetery and have a small ceremony at the Veterans Memorial,” he said.
He says the VFW may look at holding a parade later in the year.
On Memorial Day, the parade typically passes through downtown on Second Street stopping at the Veterans Memorial Bridge for a ceremony before heading to the Whitefish Cemetery for a memorial ceremony.
Hundreds of folks usually gather along the parade route and then make their way to the cemetery for the ceremony including musical performances, a guest speaker and a wreath laying ceremony.
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