On Sept. 29, 2023 the Renaissance committee in partnership with the local veterans association is placing veteran banners on light posts around the outside of the Square in Downtown Glasgow. GN1 FILE PHOTO. Michael Crimmins/Glasgow News 1.
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
Much like last year, the Glasgow Public Square will once again be adorned with banners honoring local veterans.
On Sept. 29, 2023 members of the Glasgow Parks and Recreation Department hung 16 banners on light posts around the square with the inaugural banners obtained through a partnership between the Renaissance committee and the local veterans association. Matt Mutter, who first spoke openly about the banners at a Sept. 26 Glasgow Common Council meeting, said the 16 banners had a cost of $1,780 and that subsequent banners who be sponsored “someone who wants to honor a particular veteran.”
At the most recent Coffee and Commerce Glasgow Mayor Henry Royse read out the 17 veterans whose name and image would appear on the banners this year. They include numerous familiar names such as Phillip Gearlds, who is one of the 17 candidates for a seat on the Glasgow Common Council, former Glasgow Mayor Darrell Pickett and Glasgow’s first paid firefighter Kenneth Pace.
According to Mutter, the banners, once taken down from around the square, will be given to the respective families. City Administrator April Russell said the banners should go up by the end of next week.
The full list of names is:
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
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