Article: Veterans Memorial area could be ready this year, planners say City-owned recreation site will include a 12-foot monument.

TIPP CITY -- With final measurements complete and a site plan approved, city officials said nothing should impede the start of physical work at the Veterans Memorial Park this spring.

Once that work begins, "I have no reason to believe ... that it will not be substantially completed this year," City Manager David Collinsworth said of the park planned for city-owned land at the southeast corner of West Main and Hyatt streets.

Those words were encouraging to members of the volunteer Veterans Memorial Committee.

They have coordinated support and raised more than $88,000 for a 12-foot monument and other elements for the park.

Work at the site was expected to get started last fall. It was ...

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