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Memorial Day Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery. If you’re looking for a Memorial Day celebration, consider going to this free traditional Memorial Day service starting at 10:30am. Free refreshments, educational activities, and historical tours of the Lakewood Cemetery historic Byzantine chapel will follow the service.
Arc’s Value Village is having a sale on Memorial Day for 50% off all merchandise. Stores will be open from 9am-6pm. Find out about upcoming sales at Arc’s Value Village, including Thrifty Thursdays, which begin June 3. Shoppers get a 25% off discount on all merchandise (except white-tagged items) every Thursday in June and July. There are four Arc’s Value Village locations in the Twin Cities: Brooklyn Center, New Hope, Richfield, and St. Paul.
MN Streetcar Museum. Trolley services begin on Memorial Day at 9:30am and cost $2/person ages 4 and up. The Streetcar Adventure for Kids (suggested for kids ages 3-10) will be held June 12, July 10, and August 14 beginning at 10am and will cost $5/passenger. Tickets are available to purchase in advance at Bayer’s Do-It-Best Hardware.
Library Events. Don’t forget that your local library holds free events throughout the year, including story times, movie nights, author meet and greets, and more. Go to the Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, or Washington County Library websites for more information.
Your turn: What does your family do for Memorial Day?
Our Boy Scout Troop does a service project with Fort Snelling National Cemetery. We hand out programs and poppies. Then after the Memorial service we help take down the chairs from the event and then as a ‘reward’ or privilege the boys get to raise the national cemetery flag from half mast to full. Our troop has been doing this for over 25 years. The memorial service starts at 10:00 and lasts about an hour. The boys usually get to talk with the governor, congressmen/senators and veterans for a few minutes afterward. It’s very nice to see the boys talk with people who served in WWII (not many left) and Korea, Vietnam, etc. This year after that we are heading for Fort Snelling to have a picnic and enjoy the day’s activities there.
Memorial Day seems to be a good day to go thrift store shopping.
Savers has 50% off all clothing, shoes, accessories, and bed & bath items.
http://www.savers.com/Promotions.aspx
Goodwill stores will have 50% off all blue, green, and yellow tagged items, plus furniture.
http://www.goodwilleasterseals.org/site/DocServer/DD_May_10.final.pdf?docID=1461
Unique Thrift is also often 50% off on Memorial Day, though I can’t find any confirmation right now that’s the case.