{"id":2819,"date":"2010-06-24T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T01:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2010-06-24T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T01:08:18","slug":"thornton-veterans-memorial-ready-to-start-construction-on-first-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/local-news\/thornton-veterans-memorial-ready-to-start-construction-on-first-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornton Veterans Memorial ready to start construction on first phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonveteransmemorial.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Thornton Veterans Memorial is ready to start construction on the first phase! Be sure to contribute to the effort!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonveteransmemorial.org\/images\/concept\/latest-small.jpg\" alt=\"The Thornton Veterans Memorial is ready to start construction on the first phase! Be sure to contribute to the effort!\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Thornton Veterans Memorial is ready to start construction on the first phase! Be sure to contribute to the effort!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A dedicated group of volunteers at the Thornton Veterans memorial Foundation announced that they will be starting construction on the first phase of the city\u2019s veterans memorial.\u00a0 This is an exciting milestone for all veterans \u2013 past, present and future \u2013 who deserve a memorial in their honor.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of construction will include the center pentagon, educational signage and flag poles.\u00a0 Further, all paver bricks that have been purchased will be engraved and laid in the memorial and its walkways at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t placed your order for a paver brick engraved with the name of a veteran you wish to honor or some other appropriate message, NOW IS THE TIME.\u00a0 Orders for engraved paver bricks to be included in this initial phase of construction MUST be received by the Thornton Veterans Memorial by no later than Tuesday, June 29th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please visit the foundation\u2019s online store TODAY and place your order!\u00a0 Don\u2019t miss out on this opportunity to honor our nation\u2019s veterans!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonveteransmemorial.org\/store\/\"><strong>Thornton Veterans Memorial Online Store<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tony Hake, owner and operator of ThorntonWeather.com, has personally donated over $2,000 to the memorial and encourages all area residents, civic organizations and businesses to contribute.\u00a0 ThorntonWeather.com is entirely free for everyone and Hake has asked that donations to the veterans memorial be made instead of paying for the information on this site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please consider making a tax deductible contribution to the memorial to help us ensure the men and women who have sacrificed for us have a place of honor.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonveteransmemorial.org\/\">Visit the Thornton Veterans Memorial website\u2019s main page and click on the Uncle Sam image to give to the memorial today!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dedicated group of volunteers at the Thornton Veterans memorial Foundation announced that they will be starting construction on the first phase of the city\u2019s veterans memorial.\u00a0 This is an exciting milestone for all veterans \u2013 past, present and future \u2013 who deserve a memorial in their honor. The first phase of construction will include &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/local-news\/thornton-veterans-memorial-ready-to-start-construction-on-first-phase\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thornton Veterans Memorial ready to start construction on first phase<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127,418,417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}