Cultural center hosts 'Flowers for Heroes'
Families invited to plant flower garden at war memorial May 26

Red Bank - History and horticulture will converge Saturday when The Children's Cultural Center, a branch of The Community YMCA, hosts Flowers for Heroes, a beautification project to prepare the war memorial at 51 Monmouth St. for the annual Memorial Day services.

Parents and children are invited to help plant a flower garden around the base of the memorial to honor the fallen heroes. Bob Sickles, owner of Sickles Market, Little Silver, will lead the beautification project, which will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The monument, "Handing Down Old Glory," was made in Barre, Vt., and installed in 1926 on the former borough hall grounds, now home of the Children's Cultural Center and the Relief Engine Company of the Red Bank Volunteer Fire Department.

One of the heroes honored in the monument is Harry Martin Nevius, a Civil War veteran, who went on to work as a lawyer in Red Bank and has also served as a state senator and on The Community YMCA board of directors.

To sign up for Flowers for Heroes, call the CCC at (732) 842-7177.

Volunteers are asked to bring

gardening gloves and small garden

shovels.

In addition to the beautification project, families are invited to attend the borough's Memorial Day Services at 11 a.m. on Monday at 51 Monmouth St.