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Patriot Guard Riders to Escort Soldier Home Saturday

The procession honoring PFC Dan Lyons is expected to leave Sugar Grove about 1 p.m. Saturday and go south to Yorkville.

The Patriot Guard Riders will escort PFC Dan Lyons home through Sugar Grove to Yorkville on Saturday, organizers said.

The motorcyclists will gather about 12:30 p.m. in the south parking lot of Jewel-Osco at 465 N. Route 47, Sugar Grove, Ride Captain Al Conradt said in an e-mail. Lyons is expected to arrive about 1 p.m., so they will escort him south on Route 47 and then east on Cannonball Trail to a party at his aunt's house.

Lyons, 24, served in Afghanistan as a medic.

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