The Palmerton United Veterans Organization Memorial Day activities will begin with a parade at 10 a.m. Monday.

Dawson O’Donnell has been named Miss Poppy 2026, and Sawyer Sutton has been named Palmerton American Legion Mascot.

Dawson, 8, is the daughter of Kelly and Brian Horn, and Brandon O’Donnell, and a student at S.S. Palmer Elementary School.

Sawyer, 7, is the son of Kenny and Ashley Sutton, and a student at S.S. Palmer Elementary School.

The children will each carry a wreath during the parade. One wreath will be placed at the memorial in the borough park, the other at the memorial near the borough hall on Delaware Avenue.

Dawson and Sawyer, along with Scouts, will be selling poppies after the parade and during the ceremonies following.

Money from the proceeds of the sale will go to the Palmerton American Legion and the Palmerton Veterans of Foreign Wars to be used for scholarships and the upkeep of the Veterans Memorial.

The parade will start at 10 a.m. in the 200 block of Delaware Avenue and proceed to Fifth Street, to Franklin Avenue, then down Franklin to Palmerton Borough Park, where services are held at 11 a.m. In case of rain, services will be held inside St. John Neumann Regional School.

There is no featured speaker this year.

Instead, they will be remembering those from the Palmerton Area who gave their lives in all the wars. All their names will be read, and they will also read newspaper accounts and correspondence of three of their remembered servicemen; two from WWII, and one from Vietnam.

In addition, the Palmerton United Veterans Organization will be having a cemetery salute on Saturday where they will do a prayer, fire the rifles, and play the taps at every cemetery.

• 9 a.m., Palmerton Veterans Memorial in the borough park.

• 9:15 a.m., Little White Church on Third Street (at cemetery in back of the church).

• 9:30 a.m., Towamensing and Catholic cemetery (at the flag).

• 9:45 a.m., St. John’s Lutheran Church and Ukrainian Cemetery.

• 10 a.m., Bowmanstown Cemetery (off Fireline Road)

• 10:20 a.m., Catholic Cemetery, Stoney Ridge Road.

• 10:45 a.m. Trachsville Cemetery (cemetery on the hill), includes both Jerusalem UCC churches.