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Fundraiser launched

For Dollar Bay veterans park

DOLLAR BAY -- The Dollar Bay Area Veterans Park committee and Veterans of Foreign Wars District 15 have started an engraved brick fundraiser to help build a new veterans plaza at the Osceola Township Veterans Park.

Money raised from the project will pay to move the community’s legacy veterans memorial monument. The monument must be relocated because the old local VFW property was sold.

Red customized bricks are available in 4-by-8 inch and 8-by-8 inch sizes. Buyers can choose inscriptions to honor individual veterans, local businesses, civic groups or family members.

Paper order forms are available at the Dollar Bay-Tamarack City Area Schools main office. Bricks can also be purchased online through a central campaign website.

Project coordinator Judy Odgers said the brick pavers will be installed around the sides and back of the existing honor roll structure.

"I do not think we can do them around the front," Odgers said. "Because there is already concrete there. We were thinking people might like to purchase one in somebody's name for Christmas or as a gift for a family member."

Odgers said the commemorative pavers are similar to those used at other veterans parks throughout the Copper Country. She noted that researching and adding new service names to the local display requires continuous work.

"It is a lot of work, and it is ongoing to try to get new names on the honor roll," Odgers said. "Because we have got to start putting them on the back."