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Memorial Fundraising

Jul

7

2016

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Our fundraising committee needs your help.

Our fundraising committee needs your help.

We are now at a point where we need to accelerate our fundraising.  We have a revised concept plan for the memorial that will be presented to the Orange County Commissioners in September.  Lots of work has been done and we are impressed with the vision presented.

What we need now is your help.  We have an immediate need to raise additional seed money for architectural planning.  How much?  $5,000 will help fund the design through this phase.  We’ll gladly accept a large donation for the full amount, but we know that we can also get there through small donations.

We have partnered with the Orange County Community Giving Fund to receive tax deductible donations from individuals, churches, clubs, businesses and corporations.

If you would like to help us fund the current design phase, visit our Donations  page and click on the green button.   It will take you to the fund’s donation portal.  You’ll go through a short registration process and then you can make a donation on line.

If you or your employer would like to help us, visit the donations page and look for information on corporate  donations.  Don’t forget corporate matching donations.  Ask your employer.

Remember, this memorial is a gift of the residents and friends of Orange County to the veterans who have served and have lived or live, work and play in Orange County.  You make it possible.

Posted in Design Progress, Donations, Memorial Timeline | Tags: Orange County Veterans, Orange County Veterans Memorial, Veterans in Chapel Hill |

A Veterans Memorial in a Cemetery?

Aug

4

2014

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This story is historical and shares with you our project from its humble beginnings.  Since the story was published, the Orange County Commissioners approved the memorial as a county memorial and made available a beautiful and historic site that sits above the Seymour Center.  

Open space in Chapel Hill is at a premium.  We looked everywhere and considered many options.  The best option found was the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery.

Why?  Almost half of the graves are those of veterans.  In addition, there is a large brick plaza with several benches and a hedgerow. The plaza is showing its age and was scheduled for rehabilitation by the town parks and recreation department.   The overgrown hedges were to be removed and “something” done to upgrade the area.

The addition of a veterans memorial on the site would not only enhance the site and cemetery, but help offset the cost for repair and upgrades.

Other towns have added one or more veterans memorials to their cemetery.  Most include a large flagpole and an impressive monument.

One reporter explained it this way:

  • Acton Veterans Memorial, Acton, IN

    Acton Veterans Memorial, Acton, IN

    Cliff “Cookie” Kight is just a normal guy. He runs a body shop in Acton, Indiana — a tiny, tiny town in the far reaches of the Indianapolis’ suburbs.  Has since 1976.  He never served in uniform, but serves on the local civic league, pays his taxes, loves his family.

    What’s so special about Cookie?

    He’s one of those guys who doesn’t forget, and he won’t let others forget, either.

    He’s the ramrod for the Veteran Memorial at the Acton Cemetery.  Never heard of it?  Doesn’t matter.  The families of the veterans interred in that cemetery know about it. – Myservicepride.com, Jul 21, 2013

    Visit  the Acton Veterans Memorial

Here are a few other examples:

Iowa Cemetery

Elmwood-St Joseph Cemetery, IA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oakland Cemetery, Fairfield CT - Dedicated May 2014

Oakland Cemetery, Fairfield CT – Dedicated May 2014

 

 

Posted in Other Veterans Memorials | Tags: Chapel Hill Veterans Cemetery, Veterans in Chapel Hill |

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