Obelisk set into place
Special to The Gazette
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Volunteers worked on the second phase of a monument for Eastside Memorial Park on Friday morning.
A crew from Gerald Schumann Electric helped set the second piece —an obelisk — that was carved by Alan Tollakson and Fletcher Russell.
The finished obelisk will stand 15 feet tall. The pinnacle stone will be set following this stage. Tollakson will later carve handprints into the facets of the shaft.
At the Memorial Day Weekend neighborhood barbecue, Heartland Office Systems provided a copier to obtain the handprints of those who wished to submit a print for possible incising into the memorial. More than 200 handprints were obtained that day.
The memorial is to commemorate the generations of citizen that called the neighborhood around Ninth Avenue and East Street home and to symbolize the hands of the community coming together, past, present and future.