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About Town: Weekend Events In and Around Rye

American Legion Memorial Day Services, the Rye Town Park/Oakland Beach opening, Playland, warbler sightings and horseshoe crab mating. There's lots going on including a library kiddie flick freebie and Rosanne Cash singing at the nearby Paramount.

Memorial Day Weekend means a remembrance of things past, and a focus on things present and to come, in and around Rye over the next few days.

Events range from Rye American Legion Post 128’s annual Memorial Day ceremonies on the Village Green honoring Rye’s military heroes– living and deceased to a Veteran and Service Member Appreciation Day at Rye Playland. That Playland event will include discounted parking, admission and ride passes as well as a helicopter search and rescue demonstration by the U.S. Marine Corps.

Rye Town Park and its neighboring Oakland Beach will also open over the weekend. 

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Various diverse programs are also scheduled, from warbler sightings to horseshoe crab mating, a naturalist’s choice to a free movie at the library. . . Even a nearby performance by Rosanne Cash.

Here is a look at the highlights:

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In a scene right out Norman Rockwell’s Americana paintings, albeit with all-too real tragic real war overtones, ’s Memorial Day, May 30 program will begin with the advancing of the colors at 10 a.m. with Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, Brownies and Daisies saluting the flag and end with a Retreat of the Colors with moments of reflection and taps. The closing will follow past Commander John Carolin’s reading of the rolls of honor.

Rev. Dr. Nancy De Vries, Rye Presbyterian Church's pastor, will give the invocation; Rev. Msgr. Edward D. O’Donnell of Rye’s Church of the Resurrection will give the benediction; Rye Mayor Douglas French will give the greetings; and the keynote speaker will be Captain Jason Armas, a Rye High and U.S. Naval Academy graduate who has seen combat during several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Honorees include Robin Phelps Latimer and her husband, Assemblyman George Latimer, who will receive the 2011 Americanism Award and past Commander Thomas M. Saunders, named Westchester County Legionnaire of the Year.

There will also be Eagle Scout Recognitions –Christopher LaMagna, Yuta Makita, James Higney and Daniel Newmark and Essay Contest winners –Claudia Hentschdl, Andrew Hudson and Tommy Speers.

and its 50-plus rides will be swinging into high seasonal gear this weekend. The Sunday, May 29 program will be of special interest. It will be Veterans and Service Member Appreciation Day with parking, entry and ride passes available with military ID.

The program that day will include a helicopter search and rescue demo by the U.S. Marine Corps, so don’t become alarmed if you see military choppers buzzing the park and beach. There will also be a special performance by the West Point Concert Band.

Registration will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Playland will be open from noon to 11 p.m.

Further information Phone: 813-7000

and its adjoining Oakland Beach will also open what will hopefully be a season to remember.

RTP is also moving forward with its notice to bidders to furnish and deliver an automated revenue management system –hopefully to be installed by season’s end -- that is expected to further cut costs. Bid deadline is June 6. None of which should prevent you from slapping on the suntan lotion and enjoying the beach and park. 

Then there is the difference between night and day, including warbler sightings, mating horseshoe crabs and a naturalist’s choice, all part of the weekend’s programs at the on Boston Post Rd.

The early bird sights the warbler in the Saturday Marshlands program at 7:30 a.m. with Rye eyes focused on warbler sightings during the last wave of active migrants. Bring binoculars. And maybe coffee.

Birds do it, bees do it, so do mating horseshoe crabs who are expected to do their thing at 10:30 p.m. later that night when the tide is high, the moon is full, and a more than 200-year-old mating tradition continues to make whoopee to the present day.

On Sunday at 2 p.m. there will be a naturalist’s choice offering –guided hiking through what they call “the magic and mysteries of the Marshlands.”

Information: Phone: 835-4466.

If you were among that recent standing-room-only crowd at the library to hear Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash’s oldest daughter– a Grammy Award-winning singer and composer in her own right– talk about her life and latest book, you may have been disappointed that she was recuperating from a throat ailment and couldn’t sing.

Be disappointed no more: Ms. Cash will be performing at the Paramount Center for the Arts, Saturday night at 8 p.m. Information: Phone: 739-2333

If you are looking for a Friday afternoon free fun flick for kids 5 and up, the is showing “Despicable Me” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. What’s it all about Alfie? The library describes the flick thusly: When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds himself profoundly changed by the growing affection between them. So love conquers all, even "Despicable Me."

Who else tells you things like this? No answer required. Just have a memorable Memorial Day Weekend!

 

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