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| Proclamation Signing at the Knox County Commissioners’ Office - Back Row: (left to right) Diana Cheatum, Kathryn Wilkerson, Carolyn Morgret, Marsha Pinson and Wende Wagner. Front Row: Knox County Presiding Commissioner Evan Glasgow and Western District Commissioner Roger Parton. Not Shown: Eastern District Commissioner Mike Fox. |
proclamation to honor, recognize and commend the Novelty Senior Citizens’, Inc. for their
patriotic tribute to America’s veterans. The Senior Citizens will sponsor a wreath-laying ceremony to honor all local veterans on Saturday, December 17, 2016, at the Novelty Cemetery on the east
side of Novelty.
The proclamation also requests the community’s help in accomplishing the goal of honoring all the
veterans’ graves, and in recognizing that the beauty of the red-bowed wreaths is a sign that our community remembers our veterans.
In conjunction with the national organization, Wreaths Across America, whose motto is “Remember
Honor Teach” the Novelty group has already sold sponsorships for over 100 wreaths to be laid
that day in December.
The Novelty Senior Citizens will participate in Corn Festival activities with a booth to allow anyone to sponsor a wreath to be placed on a veteran’s grave here in Knox County. If the veteran is
not buried at Novelty or Locust Hill (their two registered cemeteries), then the sponsor is asked to pick up the wreath after the ceremony and take it to their veteran’s gravesite themselves.
There are over 100 local veterans buried in just the Novelty and Locust Hill cemeteries.
Wreaths have already been sponsored to be placed in several other county cemeteries, including Mt. Salem, IOOF in Hurdland, Bee Ridge, Newark, St. Joseph’s Cemetery and Linville Cemetery in
Edina.
Everyone is welcome to come to the ceremony at the Novelty Cemetery on Saturday, December 17 at 11:00 a.m. Please join us in honoring our veterans.
(photo credit to Echo Menges of The Edina Sentinel)
As of September 5, we have 112 wreath sponsorships! I think that is fantastic. I know of several more that we will be receiving in the next week or so... and of course, that is Cornfest time as well, so anticipating donations there too.
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