Tuesday afternoon, members of the Monongah Heroine Committee were busy planting flowers around the town’s monument.
The Monongah Heroine Committee started work on the $75,000 project four years ago. Committee member Russell Bonasso said the Italian government has underwritten the major cost of the monument, and the state of West Virginia has also participated in the funding. Cook Brothers Building Co. donated the land for the statue, and Petrucci Brothers Contracting built the monument. Stewart Granite Works was also involved in the project.
“The monument is up,” Huffman said. “You’re going to see the town is looking really refreshed. It’s looking really good.”
A dedication ceremony for the Monongah Heroine Statue is slated for the week of Columbus Day. All of these events will culminate with the Monongah Mine Disaster Centennial Remembrance Ceremony Dec. 6.
“Those plans are being formulated now,” Moran said of the ceremony.
By Jessica Legge/ Tammy Shriver | Times West Virginian Jul 27, 2014
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