Recent CCCPC Clean-up Projects:
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County Sheriff Mike Becher and Deputy Sheriff Joe Egan are providing inmate
labor to clear Adams
Cemetery in Jeffersonville Township, on the Utica Township line.
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Plans are underway to restore Grayson
Cemetery in Jeffersonville Township. This is an enormous
undertaking and additional information will be released as soon as the
plans are definite.
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Dan and Betty Johnson tackled another cemetery restoration project
at Whalen
Cemetery in Silver Creek Township. The property is slated
for development as a high-density, high-income housing project. We
hope to protect the three-grave site during the development process and
the property owner wants to "do the right thing".
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Shortly after finishing their work at Whalen Cemetery, Dan and Betty Johnson
cleaned up Allen-Jenkins
Cemetery.
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Restoration work at McClintick/Sylvester
Family Cemetery is completed and on-going care is being provided
by the Clark County Sheriff's Office in the way of inmate work crews.
Steve Overton, a Sellersburg Eagle Scout, was responsible for most of the
stone repair, which was done after a Community Service crew from the Judge
Steven Fleece's Clark County Community Service Corps spent a good deal
of time there cutting down huge trees and removing tons of debris.
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Jeanne Burke is trying to organize
a clean-up and stone repair day at Dietz
Cemetery in Henryville.
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Nancy Monroe, the Union Twp. Captain,
has persuaded Bill Stewart, the Union Township Trustee to tackle the clean-up
of Weir Cemetery
near Memphis. An inmate work crew from the Clark County Jail recently
spent a week there cleaning and cutting. A lot more needs to be done,
but it's a terrific start at this long-neglected site. Thank you,
Mr. Stewart and County Sheriff Mike Becher.
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Dan and Betty Johnson coordinated a clean-up at Bottorff/Couch
Cemetery (Silver Creek Twp.) with the assistance of Judge Steven
Fleece's Community Service Corps. No stones remain although much
of the stone wall is still there.
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Donny Loweth and his wife Carol are working to restore and protect what
remains of Hale
McBride Cemetery in Jeffersonville; unfortunately, up to two-thirds
of the cemetery is under blacktop. Even more unfortunate is
the fact that, under Indiana law, the paving of these graves was legal.
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Aaron
Smith is coordinating a clean up of Faris
Cemetery at the Tunnel Mill Boy Scout Reservation in Charlestown
Township as a "dry run" for his Eagle Scout project at an as yet undetermined
Clark County cemetery location.
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