Cemetery clean-up set May 16
From our weekly issue dated May 13, 2009
Saturday, May 16 beginning at 9 a.m. a volunteer clean-up event will be held at Laurel Cemetery, on Laurel Road in Cave Junction. Approximately 60 volunteers are needed.
The event is scheduled as part of “Take Care of Oregon Days” in connection with the Oregon sesquicentennial celebrations. Participants will collect trash, rake leaves and pull weeds in the cemetery, helping to prepare the site for Memorial Day.
Volunteers are asked to bring buckets, shovels, nonelectric weed mowers, rakes, wheelbarrows, loppers, litter grabbers and buckets. Volunteers with pickup trucks will be needed to haul away trash and garbage.
The clean-up is being coordinated by Illinois Valley Grange 370 Community Service Dept., which will provide water, refreshments, lunch, and gifts for each participant.
Taylor’s County Store is donating lunch meat; Southern Oregon Sanitation is waiving dump fees; and D&D Porta-Potty is providing services. Trash bags, signs, safety vests and work gloves will be provided by the Oregon Lottery, SOLV.org and Oregon150.com.
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By organizing the clean-up and participating in the May “Take Care of Oregon Days” events, Illinois Valley Grange 370 hopes to bring attention to the cemetery and gain support for continuing efforts to keep the cemetery clean and well-maintained. The site is not a perpetual-care cemetery and its board relies on families to take care of the graves and surrounding lots.
More information can be found at SOLV.org. Volunteers are encouraged to register online at SOLV.org.
More information may also be obtained by phoning Project Coordinator Kendell Phillips at 592-4478.
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