In 2010 the Veteran's District was allowed to use a portion of county land next to the Murphys Community Park for a large Veteran's Memorial. It includes a tall central flag pole with the emblems of all the branches of service on the base, handicapped accessible walkways, benches and a wall where families could purchase a brick engraved with the name of a veteran to memorialize them.
In 2014 the memorial was greatly enlarged due to the generosity of the John Kautz family, who designed and paid for the entire project. The central feature is a bronze statue of a soldier mounted on a large boulder. This new section was dedicated on Memorial Day 2014, with the Kautz family bringing in food tents and providing a free lunch for all veterans after the dedication. This addition to the memorial area also includes another wall for memorial bricks and picnic tables. The location, next to the creek and surrounded by trees, makes it a perfect spot.
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IN MEMORIAM
Jim Carlon
On behalf of the Ebbetts Pass Veterans' Memorial District Board of Directors and our veterans, we would like to express our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Jim Carlon. Jim devoted many years to the District and worked tirelessly on behalf of our veterans. He shall be sincerely missed.
California Code provides for Veteran's Memorial Districts to be formed as needed, with the memorial districts being allowed to provide and maintain memorial halls, assembly halls, buildings, or meeting places, together with suitable indoor and outdoor park and recreation facilities, including swimming pools, picnic areas, and playgrounds, for the use of persons or organizations other than veterans, and veteran soldiers, sailors, and marines who have honorably served the United States in any wars or campaigns recognized by law, or for the use of patriotic, fraternal, or benevolent associations of those persons.
The Ebbetts Pass Veteran's Memorial District covers Calaveras County from Alpine County down to right above Vallecito, and from the Stanislaus River on the south to a boundary line going toward Sheep Ranch. There are five board members, serving terms of four years at a time, with at least three of them required to be veterans and all of them required to live in the district and be registered to vote in the district. The board meets once a month at their hall in Murphys. They planned, designed and have installed many flag pole memorials at fire stations, parks, cemeteries and other locations throughout their district.
In addition they provide new flags for schools and provide individual flags for the graves of all veterans buried in Buena Vista Cemetery in Murphys. The board members also march in parades in Arnold and Murphys, carrying the flags of each branch of the service, to increase awareness of veterans.
CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jim McGee, Director
Charles (Charlie) Palmer, Director
Craig Stone, Director
Ward Redman, Chairman
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CANCELED
MARCH 7, 2020 REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING DUE TO LACK OF A QUORUM.
AGENDA
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