A local citizens committee would like your support to honor part of our area history.
In return, you'll get some good food and souvenirs, and see a ValleyCats baseball game.
On Sunday, August 2nd, the Tri-City ValleyCats and the Col. Albert Pawling Memorial Statue Committee will be hosting an all-you-can-eat buffet at Joe Burno Baseball Stadium's pavilion. The buffet will include hamburgers, hot dogs, marinaded chicken, summer salads and other refreshments.
A payment of $25 ($20 with children 12 and under) will include the buffet, which starts at 4pm, the 5pm baseball game against Mahoning Valley and a free baseball shirt and hat. The 'Cats are now in second place in the NY Penn League's Stedler Division with a 12-11 record.
A portion of the payment will become a donation to help build and erect a statue of Troy's first mayor, Col. Pawling. He served as an Aide-de-Camp to George Washington during the Revolutionary War and became mayor of Troy in 1816.
A Troy citizens' committee, led by Adam Sanzone of Troy, has been working for more than a year to put the 7-foot-tall statue, built by nationally known sculptor Patrick Pigott of Halfmoon, in Troy's Pawling Park. The plan is to unveil the statue during Troy's bicentennial celebration in 2016.
A model of the statue has been finished (to see it, click on the attached photo below) and the push is on now to finance the rest of it. Your help would be really welcome.
Please email rsvp@pawlingstatue.org for tickets.
If you can't make the game but would like to make a tax-deductible donation, you may write to the same email address.
For more information about the project go to http://pawlingstatue.org.
Thank you.
-mike
-- Edited by mhart on Monday 13th of July 2015 02:49:55 AM
