Volunteers Need $1,400 for 9/11 Memorial Lights
The memorial was heavily damaged in Hurricane Sandy.
When Superstorm Sandy blew into town, it caused damage all over. One piece of the town hit hard was the 9/11 Memorial in Chatham Borough's Memorial Park. "A branch fell on the lights and punched the lights out," Dan Smith of the Chatham Borough 9/11 Memorial Advisory Committee said. "Two of the cables supporting the doves broke, so we have to restring those." The steel cables which held up the seven doves—one for each of the seven years that passed between the terrorist attacks and the year the memorial was built—were snapped back and forth over and over during the hurricane until they broke and the doves fell. The committee must restring those doves with new cable, and install new hardware to keep the cables in place. There was also wind …
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Len Resto
9:31 pm on Thursday, February 21, 2013
I plan to make a donation and urge fellow residents to do the same. I lost over a dozen close friends on 9/11; so, the Memorial has a very special meaning to me. more ›