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ROTTERDAM
Chiseling to start for new memorial
Town supervisor, attorney to work on stones for veterans’ monument
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net.

    It’s not too often that you come across the town attorney and supervisor chipping away at two massive slabs of limestone sitting outside of the municipal center.
    But in the coming days, Rotterdam residents passing by Sunrise Boulevard may very well come across such a scene, as Rotterdam Supervisor Frank Del Gallo helps construct a new veteran’s memorial to be erected outside Town Hall. Del Gallo said he and Town Attorney Michael Godlewski will begin chiseling grooves into the two, 4-ton stones so they can fi t together with a slab of blue stone as a centerpiece for the memorial and surrounding pavilion.
    “He’s going to have to do manual labor now,” he said of the town attorney.
    The town already has a small obelisk that is dedicated to war veterans. However, Del Gallo said the veterans approached him about building a larger memorial that could both serve as a gathering area for veterans’ remembrances and where the plaques bearing the names of Rotterdam’s veterans can be displayed.
    All of the materials and labor for the new memorial will be donated. Del Gallo, a pool builder by trade, agreed to provide the bulk of construction, while County Legislator Angelo Santabarbara will provide his service as an engineer.
    “It’s not going to cost the tax payers anything,” Del Gallo said Monday.
    The stones were provided by David Zwack, a New Scotland quarry owner and a longtime friend of Del Gallo’s. Zwack said the two 16-footlong limestone pieces were pulled from his mine and likely date back to the Devonian Period, about 350 million years ago. ....................>>>>.................>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01001&AppName=1

No disrespect to those those who are derving or  have severed.

For the the new memorial - polished or ...

I guess Doogie Houser  has a lot of time on his hands now that Mr Delorenzo is helping out on the towns pressing legal issues

I don't see the grounds of town hall housing a replica of our nations memorial to korean war veterans.

Maybe I will be surprised

Would have been nice if they included the VFW in this "event" ... I guess they forgot.

Why would they ask them??????

It is not about them but those in powe

Maybe they can do an episode of Rotterdam Memorial Extreme Makeover...

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“It’s not going to cost the tax payers anything,” Del Gallo said Monday.

typical response of government  - never spend a penny on a Veteran

Yep, I'd be proud of that!!!!



there should be no question on this issue

proper medical care, understanding, respect and most importantly "Thank You"

Tippy are you now against the fact that the work is being done by volunteers, that the engineer is volunteering, and that the materials were donated? I don't quite understand your issue... Shouldn't we be glad that for once this administration is doing something without costing us a fortune? I haven't exactly been a proponent of this administration, but it seems like they are managing to do this right.

I don't necessarily disagree with a veterans monument. But with all of the issues facing rotterdam and all of the 'pressing issues' that this administration campaigned on...........I don't remember this monument being one of them. But this is what liberal socialists do. It's feel good fluff.

Perhaps they believe that this will be their penance for the fraudulant town clerk.......the rems fiasco.......not addressing high taxes.........giving a pass to certain developers......the 'he don't have a hair you know where'.......the 'I wouldn't live where you do'......the dispatch consolidation................and the list goes on.

They do the same thing in the city. IMHO

This might be the first time ever that "conservatives" are against something honoring our troops...

I think it is nice, however the use of those materials is inappropriate and any engineering plans which call for them are obviously drawn because the materials are free. Why, because the hardness of such stone makes the two mentioned less than long-lived and both are also porous enough to be long term maintenance problems. of course I will be derided but we stopped building monuments out of materials like that (in temperate climates especially) many years ago. Monuments are to conform to what is known as the "ruins" concept and should outlive everything else if our present state should be turned into ruins and becomes uninhabitable. Go to your local graveyard and see what kind of stone Grandma's monument is made from if you liberals want to start mocking me.


I am not surprised, however, since this is Rotterdam and whether it be the houses in Eldorado Estates or the roads in our developments, everything here is designed to turn to rubble in one generation or less. Keep thinking backwards.

GrahamBonnet - Agreed well stated

Personally if any administration wanted to build a monument to honor residents who have served our nation and needed create a proper capital project and raise funds through a issuance of a bond for such a project. I would support it - and  i don't need Mr.Zee and team to explain to me why it cost a certain sum of money for monument built around GrahamBonnet's stated "ruins" concept

lets also go back to the supervisors report for the july meeting which i missed in my posting of the meeting

mr del gallo stated they were going to build a veterans monument - that is it,  i thought there would be a process of submitting ideas as is commonly done in the monument process

here i see someone has decided, period

When you cobble sh!t together and make it Rotterdam piss-elegant, it will just fall apart. That is not the way to do it and just because you can get bluestone locally doesn't mean that it is right for a monument. No input on this from vets or residents.

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When you cobble sh!t together and make it Rotterdam piss-elegant, it will just fall apart. That is not the way to do it and just because you can get bluestone locally doesn't mean that it is right for a monument. No input on this from vets or residents.

Why would they get "input" from vets or residents? Have they listened to any residents so far?  Ummm NO!
They are doing this to make THEMSELVES look like hereos, not for the hereos themselves.  The fact
that the town attorney is involved in this little project does what for this town?  Did he "volunteer" on
town time?

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This might be the first time ever that "conservatives" are against something honoring our troops...

Like I stated earlier...........I'm not against a monument honoring our troops. I am however interested in other pressing issues facing rotterdam. Issues that this administration campaigned on.

And yes, I am somewhat skeptical about this monument as being the fluff that all socialist liberals use to cover up for their incompetence or corruptness. Is that the case this time? Perhaps not. But I'm skeptical just the same.

I am no defender of the dems. But I really don't get it. One moment you guys say the dems are socialist liberals against the military. Now the socialist liberals are trying to put up a war memorial? You guys seem to just like being negative on everything.

Although, GB did make a good point, the rest of you it seems are just bashing for bashing sake...