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Letter: Thanks to Everyone Who Made the Darien EMS-Post 53 Memorial Day Food Fair a Success

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To the editor:
On behalf of all the young adults and adult advisors of Darien EMS – Post 53, we would like to thank everyone who attended our 30th Memorial Day Food Fair at Tilley Pond Park, supporting us and the work we do in the community. 
Your participation helped make this annual Darien community celebration a great success!  Each year we enjoy hosting the Food Fair which brings together the community in fun, while honoring our service men and women on Memorial Day. Thank you to the Town of Darien for the use of Tilley Pond Park, and to the Darien Police Department and Darien Parks and Recreation for their help. Thank you to the parents of the young adults of Post 53 who are a huge help before and during the Fair. We also thank the many Darien businesses who donated food and other services for our event, most especially Palmer’s Market, Fisherman’s Net, The Goose, Michael Joseph’s, The Boatyard at Smokey Joe’s BBQ, Expresso Neat, Finocchio Bros. Inc., Mermaid Pool Water, and Ring’s End.

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Two Happiest People at the Memorial Day Parade Identified: A Firefighter and the Woman He Proposed To

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An Air Force flyover wasn’t the only surprise at Darien’s Memorial Day Parade on Monday: Noroton firefighter Keith Bennett kneeled down on the Post Road near the end of the marching to propose to Marley Bykowski. Reader, she’ll marry him.  

Bennett, a Noroton Fire Department lieutenant who rides on Engine 32, was on the near the official grandstand, on a stretch of the Post Road between the Garden Center of Darien and Nielsen’s Florist when he broke ranks, got on one knee and popped the question to Bykowski.  

Bennet’s father, Ron Bennet (also a firefighter in the department), looked on.

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30th Annual Darien EMS-Post 53 Memorial Day Food Fair

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Enjoy live music, a silent auction, games and crafts for kids and a delicious array of food when Darien EMS-Post 53 holds its 30th annual Memorial Day Food Fair at Tilley Pond Park on May 28th following the Memorial Day parade. 

The money raised at the Fair supports training, provides supplies for patient care, provides hands-only CPR and Stop the Bleed classes and maintains the ambulances. The Fair, a 30-year Darien tradition, begins immediately after the parade and continues until 2:00 p.m. featuring fun for the entire community. Admission tickets are $5.00 and can be purchased at the gate as well as outside select retail and non-retail locations around town prior to Memorial Day. As always, the fair will include a tasty and tempting food selection.  Post members will be hard at work grilling hamburgers and bratwurst, and serving pulled pork, seafood salad and wraps, delicious desserts and more. Suppliers include Palmer’s Market, Michael Joseph’s, Fisherman’s Net, The Goose, and Smoky Joe’s.

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Darien’s Memorial Day Parade 2018: What to Know

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Darien’s 2018 Memorial Day parade steps off at 10 a.m. sharp on Monday, May 28 from Goodwives Shopping Center, turns right and travels on Old Kings Highway South to Brookside Road and then turns left onto the Post Road until it reaches the veterans cemetery at Spring Grove Cemetery. Here’s more of what you should know about the parade, the marchers and the route, the family-friendly party at the end at Tilley Pond Park, the Memorial Day speaker and the grand marshal. At the end, we’ve got instructions for marchers. Parade Route: Goodwives Shopping Center to Brookside Road to Post Road. At the end of the parade, continue on Post Road PAST Hecker Avenue.