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Sunday, April 14 a.m. Church Services 2:00 p.m. 300 Anniversary /Town Parade 10:30 p.m. Paul Revere's Ride Monday, April 15 a.m. Reenactment Sunrise Youth Parade All at usual time Ceremony on the Battle Green 10:00 Road Race DAR Wreath Laying 11:00 USS Lexington Observance 2:00 Old Guard Ceremonies on the Battle Green. Units include Fife and Drum Commander in Chief's Guard Fire Demonstration Army Drill Team • The travel cost of $3,000 for the Army Drill team must be raised by private donation. • The drill team normally attracts a crowd of 2,000. They will be unable to perform outdoors if the temperature falls below 50 degrees. Cary Hall is available as a backup but the stage extension will have to be dismantled from an earlier Symphony performance. • Grace Chapel will not use the high school parking lot on Sunday. • The Londonderry High School contingent may need their own special parking area. • A campaign is underway to make sure that the residents of East Lexington are aware and prepared for the parade to be held on Sunday vs. Monday. Measures include sending out a special insert in the April tax bill and meeting with the East Lexington Residents Association. Challenges • Parade Ambassadors: We need to start getting the word out in February. Signups will again be on line. We need extra volunteers this year — four at the East Lexington Fire Station and four at the end of the parade. • Parade Announcer: This year the announcing function will be consolidated at the reviewing stand. Sue Rockwell will not be availableas she will be marching in the parade. The committee considered a number of local candidates, as well as the possibility of hiring a well -known media personality, especially one with a Lexington connection. The announcer should be joined by one or two "color" persons. • Traffic jam at end of parade: we discussed a tentative plan to line up buses around Hastings Park on Lincoln Street, Mass. Ave, and Hastings Road so marching units could walk directly to buses and depart, helping to avoid the inevitable traffic jam at the intersection of Mass. Ave and Worthen Roads. • Water: Perhaps a water supplier would be willing to set up and staff a water station at the end of the parade in the pool parking lot. • Fundraising/Sponsors: the Committee now has 100% responsibility for soliciting sponsors for the parade. A plan needs to be developed and implemented.