CTWG: Norwich Wreaths Across America

Norwich officials to take part in 'Wreaths Across America'
By Claire Bessette
Publication: The Day
Published 12/09/2009 12:00 AM

Norwich — Members of the City Council and the city manager will participate in "Wreaths Across America" in public ceremonies set to start at about 11:15 a.m. Saturday.
The Norwich program is part of a nationwide effort sanctioned by Congress to honor fallen service personnel at cemeteries and memorials on the second Saturday of December. Seven wreaths, representing all branches of the service, will be placed at each of three locations, said Joan Scungio, director of Norwich Wreaths Across America.
At the war memorial section of Chelsea Parade, Mayor Peter Nystrom, Council President Pro Tempore Francois "Pete" Desaulniers and Alderman William Nash will place a wreath at the Vietnam and POW-MIA memorial.
Alderwoman Laurie Glenney Popovich and Alderman H. Tucker Braddock will place a wreath at the Old Cemetery Lane entrance to the Norwichtown Cemetery. The wreaths will be placed near the memorial for 20 French soldiers who died during the Revolutionary War. The Norwichtown cemetery dates back to the 18th century, and many gravestones are small and brittle.
Alderwoman Deberey Hinchey and City Manager Alan Bergren will place wreaths at the flagpole at the center of the Yantic Cemetery, where many Civil War dead are buried.
The wreath-layings will take place at noon, to coincide with the ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Scungio said.
A reception will be follow at the Polish Legion of American Veterans Post 132 on North Main Street in Greeneville.
The Civil Air Patrol, Connecticut Veterans, an umbrella group of veterans' organizations and the Connecticut Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution are the sponsors.