7Oth Annual Memorial Day Observance at Woodlawn Cemetery

On Monday, May 26, 2008, Santa Monica’s Woodlawn Cemetery located at 1847 14^th Street in Santa Monica (located directly across from Santa Monica College) is hosting the City’s 70^th Annual Observance of Memorial Day.  The program is being presented by a consortium of local charitable and service oriented organizations.  This year’s event will begin at 11:00 a.m. and will feature patriotic music including choirs from Lincoln Middle School and John Adams Middle School of Santa Monica and the award winning Fairfax High School marching band.  Santa Monica Police Explorers will serve as the color guard for the event.

The keynote speaker of this year’s event will be US Navy Rear Admiral Mark F. Heinrich, Director of Logistics Operations which provides support to our military personnel currently deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.  A brief but very exciting military aircraft flyover is also planned between 11 a.m. and noon, and the cemetery is warning residents not to be alarmed by the aerial salute.

No vehicles will be allowed to park on the Cemetery grounds due to the large number of attendees expected.  However, convenient free parking for the event will be available directly across the street from the cemetery in the parking structure of Santa Monica College located at 1900 Pico Boulevard (16^th Street and Pico Blvd.)  Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus will provide free shuttle bus service from the parking structure to the cemetery and back.  THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR PARKING, SHUTTLE BUS OR ADMISSION TO THE OBSERVANCE.