This year the Friends of Sadieville looked at possibilities for its calendar. The need...raise funds to restore the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. The method to do that was the concern. There are only a few of us and, to put it bluntly, we are an aging few. We needed to mesh our abilities with an activity that would involve our community and raise more needed funds. We landed on Armed Forces Day.
The first Armed Forces Day was held in May 1950. That is the year I was born. The idea was to combine all the individual Armed Forces Day's for each of the branches of the military into one day of celebration. This was because of the newly formed Department of Defense. The Air Force, Army & Navy agreed. The Marines agreed but also kept their individual day.
Sadieville has wanted to add a monument to all veterans at the base of the flag pole in our city park. Detta Wilson did the research on cost at several places. We determined who would do the work. Then Cindy Foster spoke with the American Legion and they provided us with $300 toward the purchase of our monument. The remaining cost was divdied between the Friends of Sadieville and the City of Sadieville with Sadieville Christian Church making a small donation. A Master Gardener in the area needed hours to qualify for something and donated her time in planning a flower garden at the base of the flagpole and monument and then doing the labor to put the flower bed in. The City of Sadieville purchased the flowers and all work was completed by this Saturday.
The local Cub Scout Pack 234 came to perform the Flag Ceremony and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
A Certificate of Appreciation was presented by Mayor Claude Christensen to Herb Archer as a representative of American Legion Post 24 and their generous donation to the City of Sadieville for the veterans monument.
Joseph Henderson came and sang patriotic songs to us. Such a beautiful voice.
Mayor Christensen sold lemonade from the lemonade stand he made with his very own hands. By the end of the picnic he was eagerly helped by the local kids.
The bookmobile was on site with flags inside to set the mood of the day. Cornhole was played, as it must be in Kentucky. Hot dogs were grilled and sold to raise those needed funds for the restoration of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. And tours were taken of the Rosenwald School. We were blessed with no rain even though it threatened a bit.
It was a great first Armed Forces Day Picnic in this little community of Sadieville.
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