By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
Glasgow’s downtown square has 17 new guests as members of the Glasgow Parks and Recreation Department replaced the generic “City of Glasgow” banners with ones emblazoned with visages and service years of local veterans.
As previously reported, last year the department hung 16 inaugural veteran banners, which Matt Mutter, chairman of the Barren County Veterans Association, said was “well liked” by the people of Glasgow. Unlike last year when the cost of the banners was paid in full by the Glasgow Renaissance-Main Street Committee, these 17 18×36-inch banners are being paid for or sponsored by “someone who wants to honor a particular veteran.”
According to Mutter, the banners, once taken down from around the square, will be given to the respective families.
The names that were hung up include:
1. Claude Steen
2. Angelia Chirichigno
3. John Vaughn
4. Phillip Gearlds
5. Darrell Pickett
6. William Bowles
7. Kenneth Pace
8. Thomas Wells
9. William Rich
10. Darrell Beam
11. John Evergreen
12. Carl Eaton
13. Richard Wilson
14. Lois Gray
15. Herbert Mattingly
16. James Gray
17. Douglas Marr
Veterans Day is on Nov. 11 and the banners are not the only veteran-oriented thing happening around the city.
This Friday, Nov. 8, the South Central Bank Operations Center on S. L. Rogers Wells Blvd. is hosting a free breakfast and program for all veterans. On Saturday, Nov. 9, Glasgow, along with the Barren County Fiscal Court and a few others, will put on a dinner at the national guard armory that starts at 7 p.m. and, of course, the annual parade will be on Nov. 11 at noon.
Also, while not entirely related, the city is preparing to erect a 100-foot flagpole at Fort Williams sometime next week. According to City Administrator April Russell and Parks and Recreation Director Eddie Furlong, the pole will bear a 30×50-inch American Flag that will be replaced quarterly. Russell said the pole had to receive approval from the Federal Aviation Administration due to its size.
