MEMORIAL DAY ACTIVITIES

Memorial Day services planned for Scott City, Cape Girardeau, Jackson and outlying areas:

SCOTT CITY

Joe Heckemeyer, Missouri State Representative for the 160th district, will make a Memorial Day address at Lightner Cemetery as a part of the Kelso Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6407 service. The service starts at 11 a.m.

CAPE GIRARDEAU

Sweet Adelines International will have a sing-out at Common Please Courthouse Park Band Shell for Olympic torch passing ceremony Monday.

Cape County Park North, the Avenue of American Flags will be standing along the drive. Also, American Flags will be displayed at Brookside Memorial Park in Jackson at the Veterans of All Wars Memorial.

A Memorial Day band concert will be held at Capaha Park band shell, 7 p.m., to kick off the Cape Muny Band Concert season.

The Olympic torch arrives by train at tracks near Themis Street, 1 p.m. Monday, where a family picnic and presentation at the steps of the Common Pleas Courthouse will take place. It will then travel down Broadway through downtown to Kingshighway then up to Jackson.

The Capaha Swimming Pool will be open for public swimming Sunday and Memorial Day from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

BURFORDVILLE

A Memorial Day service will be held at McGuire Cemetery in Burfordville, 2 p.m. Sunday.

METROPOLIS

Sammy Kershaw on the riverfront at Players Casino in Metropolis, Ill., 7:30 p.m. Monday.

JACKSON

The city of Jackson will have a Memorial Day celebration, with a concert and food and balloons at High and Monroe streets from 8 a.m. to noon.

The Jackson American Legion will have a celebration, with the Jackson Municipal Band, Monday at 9 a.m. at the entrance to the Old Jackson City Cemetery. Chaplain Lt. Rick Bradley of the U.S. Naval Training Center in Cape Girardeau will be the guest speaker.