A project to recognize local veterans and active military personnel with banners in downtown Iola has begun.
Members of the Iola Community Improvement Task Force/PRIDE Committee and the Veterans Day Committee are accepting orders for the banners.
For $150, members can sponsor a banner with a chosen military member pictured on it. Those who sponsor a banner also will be given a framed 8×10 replica as a gift.
The banners will be posted for about a month prior to Veterans Day in November.
Proceeds will benefit the Veterans Day Committee, and will go to tile repair in front of the Veterans Wall on the courthouse square.
The orders will be accepted through May 31 to anybody from Allen County. If spaces still remain available afterward, orders for veterans outside Allen County will be eligible for purchase.
After expenses, the first $5,000 will go the veterans wall. Remaining funds will go toward upkeep of the banners, as well as future CITF/PRIDE and Iola Kiwanis projects.
Order forms are available at City Hall and can be placed by contacting the city administrator’s office, 365-4900.
The banners will be displayed for three years.
