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10/24/2002
 “It´s just perfect”
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6/9/2002
Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans
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1/9/2001
Prix du Mérite 2001 du Marble Institute of America
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1/4/2000
Prix du Mérite 2000 du Marble Institute of America
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10/24/2002 |
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“It´s just perfect” |
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With acorns, pine cones and the first leaves of fall on the ground, construction workers gathered in the chilly morning air to complete their task last Thursday. For months, they had planned for this day. And the stones had finally arrived.
Working with the We Care RVC Committee, these workers were charged with designing, planning, purchasing and installing a memorial fit to remember those community members who died on Sept. 11.
It was a daunting task.
Together they donated countless hours, materials at or below cost and expertise in order to get it right. Everyone knew it had to be perfect.
The Sept. 11 monument is made of four pieces of granite, selected from some of the best quarries in Canada. Because of their weight, each piece was carefully moved into place by a crane. The center piece weighs over 16,000 pounds. The two side pieces, which bear the names of the 46 community members killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, each weigh 7,500 pounds. A small filler piece completes the monument.
The new memorial is located in the northwest corner of the Village Green on Maple Avenue. There, thanks to a carefully chosen selection of bushes and flowers, those who lost loved ones can come and remember them in a place of quiet solitude.
Bobby Furlong ran his fingers across the names on the right stone after the packaging was removed. He touched Firefighter Steven Siller’s name and told those around him how he had just completed a fundraising run in Siller’s memory. Unable to get back into the city in his personal vehicle on Sept. 11, Siller had grabbed his gear and ran through the Battery Tunnel to help at the World Trade Center.
Furlong also spoke fondly of his running partner, Deputy Chief Ed Geraghty, whose name is on the other stone. They ran the streets of Rockville Centre every day for years.
It was Furlong, of Furlong and Lee Stone Company, that ordered the granite. His company has worked with the supplier, Granicore, for more than 60 years and was able to get the stone below cost. He said that when the Canadian company heard what the granite was to be used for, they said they would do whatever they could to help.
It was like that with many companies who never met the Rockville Centre victims but, saddened by the attacks, wanted to help.
Most of the other workers lost friends on Sept. 11. And some had ties to the towers themselves.
Dennis McHale, as a 19-year-old steel worker, helped build the Trade Center.
McHale, of Dennis McHale Services, and Bobby Schenone, of Schenone Nursery, managed the site together over the weeks of preparations. They praised each of the contractors and said it was a labor of love.
‘’Each trade couldn’t do it without the one before them,’’ McHale said.
Making It Possible
The following residents or companies volunteered their services or donated materials at or below cost: | | | Kenneth Acerno
Marty Bevilacqua
Brennan & Bradley
Denise Bradley
Bill and Mary Beth Croutier
Dennis McHale Landscaping Services
Dennis McHale
Dun-Rite Specialized Carriers
Local 14 Operating Engineers
Emilio and Sons
Denise Festa
Beth Fetner
Trina Firestone
Furlong & Lee Stone Company
Bob Furlong
Lakeside Mason Supply Inc.
McDonough Electric
Richard McDonough
| Pacific Irrigation
Mike Ambort
Petrone Erectors Inc.
Joe Petrone
Richner Communications
Stuart Richner
Robustello & Sons
Frank Robustello
Rose Fence Inc.
Scott Rosenzwieg
Schenone Nursery
Bob Schenone
Village of Rockville Centre
Tony Brunetta
Bob Macri
We Care RVC Committee
Weeping Willow Tree Service
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Source: Rockville Centre Herald, Angela Marshall |
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6/9/2002 |
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Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans |
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SUNDAY TELEGRAM |
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Marieta Mitchell, left, of Norwood, is embraced by her daughter, Marieta Lawrence Kalfas of Foxboro, yesterday at the Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans Memorial. They are looking at the engraved name of Mrs. Mitchell’s husband, Sgt. Laurence H. Mitchell, who was killed at age 21 in Vietnam on June 16, 1967. Mrs. Mitchell was three months pregnant with her daughter at the time, so Mrs. Kalfas never met her father. The 35th anniversary of Sgt. Mitchell’s death is next Sunday, Father’s Day.
Green Hill visitors in awe as names are read
Worcester – Visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., often say they are in awe of its sheer vastness – that viewing the number of names is a humbling experience.
Yesterday at Green Hill Park, thousands of visitors saw the $1.4 million Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans Memorial for the first time. And just as in Washington, many stared in long periods of silence.
Under sunny skies, on as perfect a June day as there could be, 1,537 names of dead Massachusetts citizens were read, followed by a bell’s toll for each.
Some visitors left photos of their loved ones and flowers and flags by the granite monuments. Most of the 3,500 sat attentively through a ceremony that lasted more than an hour before the long recitation of names began. Others, restless, walked the grounds of Green Hill Park or milled around the monuments. A public-address system bellowed the words of the speakers for hundreds of yards.
Don Baird of Ashby visited with his mother. His brother, James Stephen Baird, was in the Air Force. He was killed in 1970.
Mr. Baird said he only learned about the memorial a few days ago. His mother, who lives on Cape Cop, told him about it.
«It’s been a long time,» he said of his brother, I was only 15 or 16 when he was killed. He was the oldest. He was 24.»
Peter White, an Army veteran from Spencer, was looking for names of some of his St.John’s High School classmates. One in particular, John Daniel Harrington, was a close friend.
«It’s a nice tribute,» he said. «It’s a long time coming.»
Mr. White, who said he has visited the memorial in the nation’s capital, said that while the war was unpopular, that is no excuse not to remember the people who fought in it.
Mr. White called it «a unique experience, a very moving tribute.
«I wasn’t sure they could pull it off, to be hones, » he said. «I wasn’t sure the sentiment was still there after 25 years. You have to keep the memory of these guys alive.»
Christine Taylor of Worcester brought her 5-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son to see the monument. She also wanted to satisfy her own curiosity.
She said the memorial’s 4 landscaped acres and its granite monuments give the park some stature that it lacked.
«I think it makes it very beautiful,» she said.
Howard Stuart of Townsend spent six years in the Army Reserve, but he said he feels a kinship with the people who fought and died.
«They were, in many ways, my long-lost brothers in the military,» he said. «They went places I never went and did things I never thought of doing.»
These were ordinary people who died, people whose lives were filled with hope, fear, anticipation, joy, pleasure and pain, Lester Paquin, a member of the memorial committee, told the crowd.
The dead were children who played in the park, learned to play baseball, tossed around a football, did their homework at the kitchen table, went to proms and took driver-education classes, he said.
Mr. Paquin said none of the dead veterans would choose now to be called a hero.
«And they would all be wrong,» he said.
«When they were here among us,» he told the crowd, «you were their heroes.»
Yesterday’s ecumenical program included solo singing performances and selections by the Madrigals of Doherty Memorial High School.
Rabbi Jordan Millstein of Temple Emanuel said his father served in the Korean War and that he was too young to remember Vietnam. But no matter he said, today’s generations have an obligation to learn about the war and remember.
Honoring the Massachusetts dead, he said, acknowledges a debt that has not been fully paid.
«There is a covenant at stake here. A covenant that we have not completely fulfilled,» Rabbi Millstein said.
The way the covenant works, he said, is the soldier agrees to fight and the civilians, in turn, agree to honor the soldiers.
Rabbi Millstein said that, instead, his generation denied any involvement with the Vietnam War and the people who fought in it.
«On this day,» he said, «I can make a small payment on my debt.»
«They live in God’s house,» he said of the dead. «May they live in our hearts.»
Today, there will be a dedication at the memorial from 2 to 3:15 p.m. The park is closed to motor vehicles. Parking will be at the Allmerica parking lots on North Parkway, off Lincoln Street. A shuttle will take visitors to and from the memorial.
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Source: Telegram & Gazette Staff, Richard Nangle |
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1/9/2001 |
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Prix du Mérite 2001 du Marble Institute of America |
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Extérieur Commercial |
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GRANICOR INC., s'est vu remettre à la dernière assemblée du Marble Institute of America (MIA) en Novembre 2001, le Prix du Mérite dans la catégorie Extérieur Commercial . Ce prix d'excellence décerné par le MIA est une reconnaissance pour la qualité du design, de l'execution et de la maîtrise artistique dans l'utilisation des matériaux fournis par la nature.
Projet:
McNamara Alumni Center
Université du Minnesota Gateway
Architecte/Designer:
Antoine Predock-Korsunsky Krank Erickson
Entrepreneur Général:
M.A. Mortenson
Pierre: Granite Acajou de Granicor
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Source: Marble Institute of America 2001 |
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1/4/2000 |
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Prix du Mérite 2000 du Marble Institute of America |
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Intérieur Commercial |
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MIA Award of Merit -
Granicor, Inc.
St. Augustin, Quebec Canada
Charles Evans Whittaker U.S. Courthouse
Kansas City, Missouri
Architect / Designer:
(JV) Ellerbe Becket + Abend Singleton Associates
General Contractor:
J. E. Dunn Construction
Stone Supplier:
Granicor, Inc.
Stone Fabricator:
Granicor, Inc.
Stone Installer:
J. E. Dunn Construction
For the interior lobby of the U.S. Courthouse in Kansas City, Silver Cloud granite with a thermal finish was used in the rotunda area. The many shapes required by the design included cubic, radial, ramp and twist.
The columns are of varying heights and there is little repetition from floor to floor. The feature piece is a hand-sculpted Great Seal of the United States.
Judges’ comments: This was a very complex and difficult job that was beautifully executed. The granite is a difficult material to blend and this job was particularly well done.
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Source: Marble Institute of America 2000 |
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