Westfield Memorial 2002

Saturday May 11 will mark the eight month anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and United Flight 93. It will also be the groundbreaking for the September 11 memorial which will honor the 12 Westfield residents who perished and according to Committee chair Janis Weinstein may be the only memorial to list all 2800 victims.

The groundbreaking will take place at 8:30 at Memorial Park.

According to Weinstein the project should be completed by August 15 with a dedication near the one-year anniversary. The model which was almost the size of the memorial was brought into the Westfield Council Meeting on Tuesday. The actual monument will be eleven feet high.

It will contain 12 granite posts which will be chained together representing the 12 Westfield residents, nine of whom resided in the township.

Committee member Sal Caruana,head of Westfield Cares said that fund raising was moving along quite well with $42,000 of the $70,000 needed already collected. He said with appreciation that many of the materials and labor had been donated.

Anyone who would like to contribute to the fund can mail their checks to:
Sept 11 Fund
PO Box 712