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Memorial Day Parade: Town to Forego Tricolor Road Paint; New Fire Truck to Debut
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With rain in the forecast and work still needed to make sure New Canaan kids can play safely on our town fields, officials decided this week to forego painting Main Street red, white and blue for the hugely popular Memorial Day parade. First Selectman Rob Mallozzi said he’s asked the Department of Public Works to focus on readying the fields instead. “Last year those guys did a great job, but it got washed away,” Mallozzi told NewCanaanite.com. “In order to get it right, we’d have to devote a large part of the crew to block off the road with sawhorses and set up barriers on either side, and there’s so much concern about the fields, that I decided to focus on that instead.”
He added that Parks Superintendent John Howe was eager to get the street-painting done, but has been asked to hold off. “The flags are beautiful on Main Street and we’ll have the parade whether those lines are red, white and blue or not,” Mallozzi said.