Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster attended Saturday’s Memorial Day Parade event, walking the parade route from the City Market to Hyde Park, and even offering up a few remarks about how he was looking forward to the completion of the veteran’s memorial during his next term in office. That he is indeed running for a third term was underscored by a photograph of the banner that was carried out in front of the parade, which bore the name of the city and his own name in equally gigantic sized typeface.
The parade also included small contingents of police, fire and military vehicles and personnel, along with classic and antique cars, clowns and even a couple of floats.
There were also patriotic and spiritually reflective songs by Nick Zawacki, singing the “Star Spangled Banner” and “God Bless America,” the Rainbow Singers, singing “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Tomorrow Allen-Collins and her sister Lora L. Allen singing “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday,” and Terra Tonellato singing “Danny Boy.”