Memorial Day at Punchbowl

Aloha Council’s Memorial Day Good Turn at Punchbowl is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, May 27, 2007. The project is will begin at 1:00 p.m. with registration and pre-program instructions. No onsite parking will be available. Units should plan to arrive as early as 10:30 a.m. (Please see general information booklet for more details on parking and program schedules. (Participation Booklet will be available at Aloha Council Service Center). Decorating the graves at Punchbowl has been an annual Good Turn of the Boy Scouts of America and is in response to an invitation from Mayor Mufi Hannemann, City and County of Honolulu. In 2006, over 4,700 Scouts and their families decorated more than 32,000 graves with flags and flower leis. At 1:00 p.m., an Interfaith Worship Memorial Service will be conducted honoring those who have been laid to rest in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. Following the ceremonies, Scouts will decorate the graves. The project will finish by 2:00 p.m.