Sherwood Memorial Park to add veterans garden, administrative buildingsPosted Jul18, 2008 at 03:14 PM With over 7,000 veterans buried within its gates, Sherwood Memorial Park is working on a way to help memorialize its deceased members of the military. The park is also building new offices for the administrative staff along East Main Street. Plans for the veterans garden have not been finalized, as the park is looking for a way to offer inexpensive memorial plaques while keeping the main feature and garden as elegant and beautiful as possible. Tentative plans include a pentagon-shaped fountain, with each side representing one of the armed forces. Currently, the park hopes to finish the project by the end of the year. Employees are slated to move into the new building next week. The new space will free up areas in the mausoleum and other buildings around the park for patrons, as well as leaving them free to remove their cramped offices (a small building and a mobile home) on the Lynchburg Turnpike. "It will just be nice to have space to receive families," said Susan Mini, family service office manager, of the new building. Sherwood Memorial Park also has plans to begin hosting family, grief, and social programs at the park. Mini hopes that they can offer families and individuals a way to comfortably discuss end-of-life planning and, most importantly, grief. Photo: Mini stands at the location for the new veterans garden at Sherwood Memorial Park. The tentative completion date is December 2008. |
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