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At Spring Grove Veterans Cemetery: Wreaths Across America Ceremony on Saturday, Dec 17

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Spring Grove Veterans Cemetery Wreaths Across America Ceremony Set for noon on Dec. 17

The public is encouraged to attend the Wreaths Across America dedication ceremony to be held at noon on Saturday, Dec. 17, at Darien’s Spring Grove Veterans’ Cemetery. According to local tallies, there are 2,160 veterans buried in the Darien cemetery, one of three designated official veterans’ cemeteries in Connecticut. (The other two are in Middletown and Rocky Hill.)

Local fund-raisers have collected 1,273 wreath sponsorships for Darien’s Spring Grove Cemetery this year.

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Wreaths Across America 910-26-16

You Can Still Order Wreaths To Be Placed on Veterans Graves This Christmas Season

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Volunteers are collecting $15 sponsorships at Goodwives Stop and Shop for the next two Saturdays to buy wreaths for veterans graves during the Christmas Season. This announcement from Darien members of Wreaths Across America has the details:

 

Sponsorships will be collected from 9 a.m. to 12 noon again at the Stop and Shop supermarket at Goodwives Shopping Center, 25 Old Kings Hwy. N., this Saturday, Oct. 29 and the next Saturday, Nov. 5. Wreath sponsorships at $15 per wreath go towards the placement of wreaths at Darien’s Spring Grove Veterans Cemetery.

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Pat Parlette Wreaths Across America 9-28-16

You Can Buy a Wreath for a Veteran’s Grave at Spring Grove Cemetery

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Each year, the citizens of the town of Darien band together to purchase and place wreaths on the graves of the veterans interred in the Spring Grove Veterans Cemetery. Here’s where you can easily contribute to the project:

On two consecutive Saturdays, Oct. 8 and 15 2016, from 9 to 12 noon, in front of Palmer’s Market, Wreaths Across America sponsorships will be solicited at $15 per wreath. Sponsorships will also be sold at Darien Doughnut from 8 to 11 a.m. and Goodwives Stop and Shop from 9 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday, Oct. 22.