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![[CREDIT: Beth Hurd] Members of the Lexington Minutemen emerge from the smoke of their recently fired muskets, walking along the red, white and blue-striped Gaspee Days parade route on Saturday, June 11.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gaspee_parade-2016_03-140x140.jpg)
One unintended consequence of the recent state-wide tourism debacle was to shed a spotlight on a local annual celebration known to almost all natives of Rhode Island: the annual Gaspee Days Parade, held on Saturday, June 11.
![CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Jacob Burrows tows his niece, Mary Burrows, around the Warwick Veterans Memorial on West Shore Road on Memorial Day in 2016. Following them is Mary's grandmother, Debra Burrows.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Memorial-Day-2016_1-140x140.jpg)
Memorial Day parade marchers, gymnasts, bands and all but one float were canceled by Monday’s rain, but a small group of 20 carried umbrellas to meet the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier float at Warwick Veterans Memorial High School under stop-and-start showers.
The Warwick Veterans Council hosted their annual Veterans Day observance / wreath-laying ceremony at Warwick Veterans Park on a brisk, overcast Wednesday morning with 20 vets and officials.
Warwick Vets seniors and juniors gathered around the school’s flagpole with veterans and officials to honor the city’s veterans as a high school one last time Tuesday morning.
The Warwick School Committee voted 4 to 1 for school consolidation option 5 Tuesday night, fating Warwick Veterans Memorial High School to conversion to a middle school and closing Aldrich and Gorton Junior High Schools, saving the district $4.5 million annually.
