Ray, Great idea..my son works for CBS Evening news I had told him about the situation..but neither of us thought about the newspaper..I was thinking along the lines if he were ever in the Licking Co. Area filming..drop by.. The most frustrating thing is the man doing a recording of the cemetery for Genweb wrote a narative about the condition of the area and what needed to be done..I sent his info to all of them..it is not as if I made it up!!! This man was in the area last July and he reported what he found and the difficulty he was having in getting the information. he put it on line at the site..for all to see .My Great Great Grandfather is buried there..and no one can locate his grave due to the condition of the stones, high weeds, trees down and left where they fell.. I contacted the Ohio Cemetery Preservation Society to see if they would take this one on and they must have the co-operation and a request from the TWP to go to work.. I will get on the Newspaper tomorrow and thanks for the idea!! I have kept all the folks I contacted and what they said and dates.. Beverly --- [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 4/20/04 3:18:48 PM Pacific > Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > I have the same problem going > > on in Licking Co. Ohio. at Old Freedonia Cemetery > .and > > it is no ones responsibility and no one wants to > fix > > it..I have contacted the Mayor, City Council and > had > > communication with the TWP Board in charge of this > > Cemetery and they just stop writting after.. > > It might be worth a try to get the local > newspaper interested in the > story. Write to them and itemize the steps you have > taken; the people you have > contacted, etc. Whenever a politician sees his/her > name in the paper as > doing nothing about a problem, they suddenly drop > into third gear for some reason. > Try a Google search to find the local newspapers in > Licking county. Good > luck; my fingers are crossed for you! Ray > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > Hancock County web site: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/ > Rock Island County web site: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25� http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash