Legion hosts Memorial Day events

The Renton-Pickering Post of the American Legion will conduct Memorial Day ceremonies at each cemetery in the Valley, as well as at the Valley Veteran Memorial.

The Renton-Pickering Post of the American Legion will conduct Memorial Day ceremonies at each cemetery in the Valley, as well as at the Valley Veteran Memorial.

Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and all citizens are invited to participate. The ceremony is brief and will be repeated at each stop, along with three volleys of gunfire in honor of those who died serving the country.

Flags will be placed at each grave site. Scouts are invited to march with Legion members, to bring in the flag and march out again at the conclusion.

The ceremonies are scheduled as follows:

• 9 a.m., Preston Cemetery

• 10 a.m., Fall City Cemetery

• 11 a.m., Mt Si Cemetery, North Bend

• 12 p.m. Veteran Memorial located at the American Legion Post in Snoqualmie

• 1 p.m. Lunch at Legion Post

To get to the Preston cemetery, from westbound Interstate-90, take exit 22 and turn right off the ramp onto Southeast 82nd. At the stop, turn right onto High Point Way. Turn left on Southeast 87th Place, and turn left on 308th. The cemetery is a quarter-mile ahead.

To get to the Fall City cemetery, from westbound I-90, take exit 22 and turn right off the ramp onto Southeast 82nd. At the stop sign, turn right onto High Point Way. Continue onto Fall City-Preston Road for five miles. Turn right onto Lake Alice Road. The cemetery is on the left.

To get to the Mount Si Cemetery in North Bend, from eastbound I-90, take exit 34. Turn left from the ramp onto North Bend Way. The cemetery is on North Bend Way, just past Mount Si Road.