To the List: The Knox County Cemetery Commission's budget has once again been cut from $2,500.00 to $1,000.00. After investing in excess of $40,000.00 to restore over 30+ cemeteries in Knox County, the Knox County Council cries that they are broke. What do they think, it's all fixed and we can go home now. For 2 years in a row we had an $18,000.00 budget. We can't even cover our money for gas. I suggest that anybody who would like to complain, contact Tim Ellerman, Pres., Knox County Council, Knox County Court House, Vincennes, IN 47591. He is on record saying that "I will personally see to it that the trustees do their job". We'll see! I was recently sent a copy of a "Letter to the Editor" written by Rich Kimball that was submitted to Bernie Schmitt at the Vincennes Sun-Commercial. The paper has chosen, so far, not to print this letter. I think the paper in our area is just as big of a "thug" as the council and the trustees. Anyway, if we can't get it printed in the paper, I would like it at least on record here. As for our plans, we have none and we don't have much enthusiasm left, either. It's not too good of a feeling to work your tail off for free and then get your legs cut off when you're done. That's exactly what they have done to us! If it were not for the help of 20+ volunteers from the Northwest Territory Genealogical Society in Vincennes, we would not have accomplished much of anything this year. Lois asked me to wait and calm down a bit before I sent the results of our budget hearing to the list, but frankly I get madder every day that goes by. Have a good one, Jon Andrews >From: "Lois Mauk" <loismauk@home.com> >Reply-To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [INPCRP] What are your plans for FALL? >Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 21:29:37 -0400 > >We used to have monthly roll calls, asking everyone to update us on their >plans and achievments? We haven't done that in ages. > >What do you say we post messages to the group letting everyone know about >your Indiana cemetery work, whether it's finding them, cleaning them, >restoring them, etc., either what you've accomplished in the last six >months >or your goals for the coming six months. > >Lois > > > >==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== >THIS IS A CEMETERY ----- > "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families >are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is >undisguised. This is a cemetery. > "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, >historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched. > "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved >in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - >not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family >memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. > "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of >yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery >exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always." > --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp