We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
Left to right, Don Berger and Larry Wisch, both former employees who oversaw maintenance at the Kuper Cemetery, started funds a number of years ago that provided ways to help beautify the cemetery. They gave families an opportunity to contribute to a "tree fund." Money from that fund was recently used to plant 12 trees in the cemetery northwest of Chinook.
The Kuper Cemetery Board asked that the Journal publicly recognize and thank the Chinook Lions Club for both its historic and recent work toward improving the cemetery. The club recently completed the last planting of twelve mature trees in the military section, in Area 4, of the cemetery. Kuper Cemetery is on Stephens Road, northwest of Chinook.
Historically the Lions Club's first major project at the cemetery was buying and planting 180 Green Ash trees around the perimeter of the cemetery northwest of Chinook. That was 1927. With no irrigation system in place, the club watered the plants by...
