“Blue and yellow? Or green and gold? Or blue and gold?” Burton American Legion Post 459 member Lee Koroshes asked Burton Township trustees.
Koroshes polled trustees about the colors of four trailhead posts that will be placed eventually in the township’s Memorial Forest at last Monday’s trustees meeting. The forest is part of the township park, trustees said.
Trustees decided the park’s four trailhead posts would consist of medium blue posts with yellow lettering. Koroshes gave his input, while Trustee Jim Dvorak set an existing uncolored post on the table and displayed color swatches for the proposed project.
More details will be hammered out at the township Park Advisory Board meeting June 2 at 7 p.m., which will take place before the regular township meeting at 7:30 p.m., Koroshes said.
“I’d like you all to be there at the meeting as well,” he told trustees.
Marking History with Tribute To Veterans
Earlier this year, Park Advisory Board Chairman Jerry Davis said the park’s trails were named after area veterans, including Karl Goff and Ken Kleve. One trail is even named after the Legion post itself, Atwood-Mauck.
“One of the veterans was a POW and another (received) a Purple Heart,” Koroshes said in the March 13 issue of the Geauga County Maple Leaf. “It’s a fitting tribute.”
Memorial Forest is part of Burton Township’s park, dedicated years ago to the veterans from the area, Trustee Ken Burnett said.
During The Depression, trustees purchased two forests within the township, Trustee Dan Whiting said.
After World War II, the board decided to name one of the forests Memorial Forest, commemorating veterans. Roughly 12 years ago, trustees came up with the idea to name the trails in honor of veterans after purchasing another park just south of the forest, the 98-acre Headwaters Park on Rapids Road, Whiting said.
He said he and a few former trustees helped developed the trails, which included clearing paths and installing benches on the trails. Different township residents donated the benches, in memory of loved ones.
The trailheads in question, made up of 4-by-4-inch wood posts, are four to six feet off the ground. The posts will contain strips of plastic with trail names on them, Dvorak said.
Prior to deciding on the yellow lettering-over-medium blue post combination, Whiting told Koroshes it was hard to determine a scheme, as most U.S. military schemes utilize blue as a main color.
“It would be hard to specify what kind of trail it is,” he said, adding it would be hard to distinguish each trail marked blue in honor of the United States armed forces.
Upon observing Dvorak display the color swatches on the table, next to the post, Legion member Newell Beaumier had one comment.
“It pops!”
In other news, Service Department Foreman Jason Sutter said he has been taking care of various maintenance items, such as removing snow fence and removing spreaders and plows from road trucks. Mowing and fertilizing has begun as well, Sutter added.
He also told trustees and Cemetery Sexton Martha Evvs he will clean up two pillars at Slitor Cemetery as well.
Evvs also said she would purchase a state of Ohio flag from a local flag store to complement the township’s current POW-MIA and American flags already in place, so they would be ready before Memorial Day.
Additionally, Fire Chief Ken Lewis said the annual Berkshire Schools “Prom Promise” mock accident was slated to occur May 6 at the high school stadium.