GLENDALE : Public’s Help Sought for War Memorial
City officials and a committee of local veterans are asking for the public’s help in financing, building and inscribing names on a $165,000 memorial to war heroes from Glendale, Montrose and La Crescenta.
“We’re going to need a lot of assistance from the community in terms of cash donations, contractors donating their work or vendors who are willing to donate construction materials,” said Raymond Cruz, a coordinator of the Glendale-Montrose-Crescenta Valley War Memorial, which is planned on the corner of Broadway and Isabel streets.
Architectural drawings of the memorial will be unveiled Thursday at noon during a kickoff ceremony on the memorial site. Cruz said the memorial committee, composed of citizens and representatives of the three city employee unions, has settled on a design made up of multiple granite panels, into which the names of all soldiers killed or missing in action since Glendale’s incorporation in 1906 will be chiseled.
The memorial is to be located next to the Peace Globe in front of City Hall, the site of the city’s annual Memorial Day ceremony. The Peace Globe and a small memorial for Vietnam-era veterans in the Montrose area are the city’s only monuments to its war dead.
Organizers have set up a charitable fund to collect donations for the monument, but they are also asking for another kind of help from the public in identifying past Glendale residents who were killed or lost in action.
Donations to the memorial fund can be sent to P.O. Box 313, Glendale 91209. For more information on the memorial, call (818) 548-4844.
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