A dedication was held on Memorial Day for the new Gower Veterans Memorial.

Mayor Chip Holman said over 600 people attended the event to show their support for Veterans and Active Duty Service Members.

“It was just an amazing event for our town. Our American Legion, Tony Gardner, which is the gentleman who designed it and is the project manager, did an amazing job,” Holman said. “What’s even neater about this is you’re looking at a $100,000 project that was done for less than half of that because of all the volunteers, the stuff that was donated, as far as equipment, time, it was just amazing. What I like, as the mayor, is the fact that the taxpayers put very minimum into this as far as out of our budget. The city Parks Department, we bought the flags… then we laid the sod around it, other than that, this was all fundraising and it was amazing how Tony and the American Legion was able to put this together and it was just an incredible event.”

The memorial is located at 311 Railroad Avenue in Gower.