MONROE - A small, quiet movement is beginning to grow across the area.
Members of the Green County Veterans Memorial Park Committee are excited but patient, as they take the necessary steps to implement non-profit corporation status and elect a board of directors.
All the legalities are in an effort to honor all veterans in the county with a memorial inside Pleasant View Park, located at the corner of Wisconsin 81 and County N.
The idea of a countywide memorial has been around for several years, but recently veterans and other interested individuals have become "fired up" with new plans, said Donna Douglas, committee secretary.
Larry J. Ayres serves as chairman of the Green County Veterans Memorial Park Committee.
Douglas said the committee "remained quiet and didn't make waves" when the Green County Board of Supervisors decided to place the new county Justice Center on 6th Street on Monroe's east side near Wisconsin 11/81, where they had hopes of establishing the memorial and had already placed an M-60 tank.
The county gave the committee a place in Pleasant View Park for the tank.
Now the committee is working to establish an area inside the county park for a Veterans Memorial, which will include a flag pole and helicopter.
Pleasant View Park is an excellent location for the memorial, because "all the amenities are in place - a beautiful shelter, restrooms and no landscaping for the committee to worry about," said Douglas.
The move has been a "smooth transition," she added.
At a meeting Tuesday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Monroe, the committee received a draft of the Green County Veterans Memorial Park, Inc. bylaws, put together by Bill Hustad, Sheryl Tschudy and Bev Stuckey.
The simple, five-page document will be reviewed and possibly approved next month.
With the committee's work comes administrative costs, and some area banks and individuals have already stepped forward with donations to help with those.
Solicitations for the Memorial will begin once incorporation has been established.
But plans are already underway for the committee's first fundraiser, a spaghetti supper catered by Vince's Pizzeria and Restaurant, followed by fruit pie or other desserts, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Oct. 28 at the Cecil-Jones VFW Post 2312 in Monore.
"Bev (Stuckey) hit the road running after the last meeting" to get the supper lined up, Douglas said.
Stuckey is already thinking about holding a breakfast fundraiser sometime in January.
More information about the spaghetti supper will be announced in area newspapers and on the radio. Volunteer sign up lists are located at the VFW, the American Legion, and other public locations across the county.
Members of the Green County Veterans Memorial Park Committee are excited but patient, as they take the necessary steps to implement non-profit corporation status and elect a board of directors.
All the legalities are in an effort to honor all veterans in the county with a memorial inside Pleasant View Park, located at the corner of Wisconsin 81 and County N.
The idea of a countywide memorial has been around for several years, but recently veterans and other interested individuals have become "fired up" with new plans, said Donna Douglas, committee secretary.
Larry J. Ayres serves as chairman of the Green County Veterans Memorial Park Committee.
Douglas said the committee "remained quiet and didn't make waves" when the Green County Board of Supervisors decided to place the new county Justice Center on 6th Street on Monroe's east side near Wisconsin 11/81, where they had hopes of establishing the memorial and had already placed an M-60 tank.
The county gave the committee a place in Pleasant View Park for the tank.
Now the committee is working to establish an area inside the county park for a Veterans Memorial, which will include a flag pole and helicopter.
Pleasant View Park is an excellent location for the memorial, because "all the amenities are in place - a beautiful shelter, restrooms and no landscaping for the committee to worry about," said Douglas.
The move has been a "smooth transition," she added.
At a meeting Tuesday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Monroe, the committee received a draft of the Green County Veterans Memorial Park, Inc. bylaws, put together by Bill Hustad, Sheryl Tschudy and Bev Stuckey.
The simple, five-page document will be reviewed and possibly approved next month.
With the committee's work comes administrative costs, and some area banks and individuals have already stepped forward with donations to help with those.
Solicitations for the Memorial will begin once incorporation has been established.
But plans are already underway for the committee's first fundraiser, a spaghetti supper catered by Vince's Pizzeria and Restaurant, followed by fruit pie or other desserts, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Oct. 28 at the Cecil-Jones VFW Post 2312 in Monore.
"Bev (Stuckey) hit the road running after the last meeting" to get the supper lined up, Douglas said.
Stuckey is already thinking about holding a breakfast fundraiser sometime in January.
More information about the spaghetti supper will be announced in area newspapers and on the radio. Volunteer sign up lists are located at the VFW, the American Legion, and other public locations across the county.