Local Scouts to Retire Flags at Montgomery Cemetery This Saturday
Scout Troops from Norristown, Skippack and Philadelphia will be on hand at Montgomery Cemetery in Norristown to retire old, worn out or damaged American Flags for residents.
Area Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will be encamped at Montgomery Cemetery, 1 Hartranft Avenue in Norristown, this weekend for the cemetery's annual Restoration Weekend and Flag Retirement event. Scouts will work to clean and rehab the cemetery throughout the weekend and on Saturday, April 20, at 7 p.m., scouts will retire old, damaged American Flags with a ceremonial burning. Residents are invited to drop off any flags they would like to retire at the cemetery prior to the event. (Rain date for the Flag Retirement will be Saturday, April 27.) According to Eileen Santori, project coordinator for the Boy Scouts, this is the 10th year the scouts have worked with Montgomery Cemetery on the restoration project. Santori has worked with some of the …
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Aunt Lynn
4:54 pm on Wednesday, April 17, 2013
I love doing this every year. The cemetery restoration has come a very long way in the last 10 years. Everyone involved learns so much. There is so much history at this cemetery. more ›