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Flag Day celebration set for West Park

The proud tradition of saluting Old Glory and our military on Flag Day by the 109-year-old Allentown Flag Day Association continues with a patriotic concert by the Allentown Band 7 p.m. June 14 in Allentown’s West Park, 16th and Turner streets.

Rain site is the auditorium of William Allen High School.

Under the direction of Conductor Ron Demkee, the band will perform favorite arrangements of John Philip Sousa’s ”Stars and Stripes Forever,” Henry Fillmore’s “Americans We,” Thomas Knox’s “Americans We” and other selections. All veterans will be applauded during the “Armed Forces Salute” by Richard Hayman.

Celebrated soprano soloist Evelyn Stewart will enhance Hawley Ades’s arrangement of “This Is My Country” as well as Wilhousky’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “God Bless America.”

The Honorable Judge Edward D. Reibman, elected to the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas in 1991 and current president judge, will deliver the Flag Day message.

The concert is free; a free-will offering will be taken to benefit Allentown Flag Day Association, the oldest incorporated Flag Day association in the United States, founded in 1907 by Allentown resident Joe Hart.